Created with Pachyderm

The following presentations are just a small sample of the range of creative work that is being done with Pachyderm. Want to see your presentation listed here? Send a note to info@nmc.org to let us know!

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Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth
Explore four decades of art by Anselm Kiefer, including paintings, sculptures, books, and works on paper that reflect the artist’s career-long meditation on the relationship between heaven and earth. This program features a variety of works highlighted in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth, the first American survey of Kiefer’s work in nearly two decades. Video interviews with the artist are presented alongside dozens of images of artwork and documentation from the artist’s studio.

The Geometry of Hope
The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a major exhibition comprising some 130 works of art from the acclaimed Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), opened in February 2007 at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin.  This interactive feature was created to accompany the exhibition.  

A Hidden Picasso
Explore the behind-the-scenes story of how art conservators discovered a hidden painting by Pablo Picasso and what the image reveals about the 19-year-old Picasso who painted it. This interactive program created by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art includes rarely seen photographs and drawings by the young artist, archival footage of Paris in 1900, and interviews with conservator Will Shank.

hush, hush: the power of a secret
This piece presents the work of teenage artists participating in Club Arthouse at the Arthouse at the Jones Center. The students' work was inspired by the award-winning PBS series Art:21.

Integrating the Arts: Mummies, Manuscripts & Madonnas
Integrating the Arts: Mummies, Manuscripts & Madonnas uses an interdisciplinary approach to integrating visual art into the core K-12 curriculum disciplines of social studies, science, language arts, and math. Designed for middle school students but applicable to everyone, selected medieval works of art in the Walters' collection, or works of art that contain themes that are relevant to the medieval world, are available now with either online or printable interdisciplinary activities.

Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint
Over the past two decades, Matthew Barney has created a distinctive universe using a multitude of media, from sculpture and photography to drawing and film. Informed by his careful study of recent art history, the human body, and biological development, his work reveals a keen interest in process and the evolution of form. This presentation, produced by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, explores his works.

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta
Explore Alberta's history through the lives of different mavericks. Hundreds of different artifacts, historic photographs, documents, and maps are included in this presentation.

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation
Delve into Tomatsu's stirring pictures of postwar Japan and learn why he is revered as one of the country's most important photographers. Video footage of the artist in Nagasaki, as well as commentary by scholar Leo Rubinfien, provide a rich context for exploring Tomatsu's personal vision. Produced by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Arkansas Air Museum
Several "Unidentifed Flying-related Objects" are pictured, enticing the viewer to learn more about what they are and, in the process, about the museum.

The Case of the Bony Defect
This “Case by Case” learning module presents a case study, including supporting material in the form of videos, resources, and a mini-lecture, to help dentistry students work through a problem.

The Cordero Storytellers
This presentation is a work in progress created by the Museum of Texas Tech University. It showcases the storytelling dolls of Helen and Buffy Cordero.

The Detail of Japanese Woodblock Prints
This short presentation for The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas allows for detailed viewing of four prints from the recent exhibition, News from Abroad: Woodblock Prints from Yokohama, Japan.

Faces of Battle: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection
An installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the themes of samurai virtue in conflicts ranging from legends of pre-history to epic moments of civil war in the late 19th century. The thirty woodblock prints from the installation are also presented online in this interactive feature with stories of the protagonists, zoom screens enabling close inspection of the images, and a brief biography of the influential printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92).

Get Smart with Art Series
This series of resources, prepared by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is designed for students and teachers to use as they explore topics related to the museum's collections.
California History (4th Grade) This presentation brings California history alive for 4th-graders as they explore themes through photographs and artwork.
5th Grade (work in progress) This presentation will use artworks to explore what life was like in the 1800s.
Mesoamerican Art and Culture (7th Grade) This presentation explores works having to do with Mesoamerican art and culture.
West African Art and Culture (7th Grade) This presentation includes sections on the importance of gold, traditions, ancestors, and trade in West African art and culture.
The Brown Family (8th Grade) This presentation uses a family portrait as a portal to explore 19th-century America.

How to Write a Great Paper
This presentation leads the student through one method of thinking about, then writing about, complex topics.

The Inner Beauty of Bugs
The closer you get, the lovelier they are... or are they? Get up close and personal with a few surprising photographs of bugs you think you already know.

Making Sense of Modern Art Set-Up Page
This is an example of a "set-up" page: a web page that describes the presentation and places it in context, with a link to launch the presentation.

Minnesota Digital Library Demonstration
This demonstration project examines the unique qualities of the Minnesota Digital Library and explores the ways it can be used by K-12 teachers and students in their classrooms.

The Museum Research Library
This presentation serves as an orientation for new Texas Tech University graduate students to the Museum Research Library.

Pachyderms on Parade
This presentation draws from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (SFMOMA's) Pachyderm presentations of recent years to provide vivid examples of the use and potential of the current set of Pachyderm 2.0 templates.

Project Row Houses
This presentation introduces Project Row Houses, and its foundational concept "Social Sculpture," through digital storytelling and multimedia.

Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour
Created to accompany a new photography show at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, this presentation features ten images by David Seymour and audio commentary by curator Tom Beck.

Still Life Observational Exercise
This exercise trains students to use their powers of observation to describe specific features of a setting with increasing detail and accuracy.

Technologies for Learning
This collaborative exhibit was produced in a Masters-level course (“Teaching with Technology”) at Santa Clara University. The online exhibit, which was only a part of the coursework, helped students to reflect on different styles of presentation, to learn to be synthetic and prioritize a wealth of information, to become aware of how individual work fits in a larger group project, and to understand the value of making the work public beyond the course context. Please send comments to the instructor, Professor Pedro Hernández-Ramos.

Virtual Reality and Visual Perception
This "visualized research paper" addresses how visual perception is used (and abused) in practical virtual reality.

Women Nobel Prize Winners
Of the 758 individuals who have received a Nobel prize since the inception of the award in 1901, only 33 of them have been women. Here are 10 of those extraordinary women.