Education

Festival Napa Valley has gathered here a sampling of free, high-quality, and trusted educational resources helpful in exploring, teaching, and making art at home on your own or with your family. Some of the resources below include formal curricula for school-aged children and young adults, while others offer a virtual experience of a recorded or streamed live event. También se incluyen recursos en español.

Past Festival Napa Valley Featured Artists

• Angel Blue
• Aldo López-Gavilán
• Joshua Bell
• Kristin Chenoweth
• Lester Lynch
• Sheku Kanneh-Mason
• Sophia Bacelar
• Stars Aligned Siblings
• Young People’s Chorus of New York

 

Virtual Concert & Performance Halls

• Festival Napa Valley Concerts for Kids (elementary-middle school)
• Festival Now (all ages)
• LA Phil at Home including At Home with Gustavo/En Casa con Gustavo (in English & en Español)
• New York Metropolitan Opera
• Montreal Symphony Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony MusicConnects
• San Francisco Opera
• New York Philharmonic
• Carnegie Hall
• Royal Albert Hall’s Royal Albert at Home
• Lincoln Center at Home (music, dance, film, & theater)

 

Virtual Visits

(to museums, sculpture parks, studios, and galleries)

• Donum Estate
• Hess Collection (separate visual & audio tours)
• Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art/Artist Studio Visits
• Louis Armstrong House Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Google Arts & Culture Virtual Tours of World Museums (Musee d’Orsay, Uffizi Gallery, The State HermitageRijkmuseum, Van Gogh, Tate, and many others)

 

Instruction (Formal Classes & Projects)

Visual Arts

• SFMOMA in conjunction with J. Paul Getty Museum & the Aspen Art Museum (for high school-aged students)
• Museum of Modern Art/MOMA (for high school students & adults)

Music & Musicals

• Grammy Music Education Coalition (distance learning resources for classroom teachers, including instrument instruction en Español)
• Albert’s Orchestra (Royal Albert Hall musicians’ introduction to orchestral instruments for young children)
• EduHam at Home Project (Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
• College Board AP US History Session with Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Khan Academy
• Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers (lesson plans with support materials & performance videos)

At Home Music & Art Making Activities

• Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
• Museum of Modern Art/MOMA (NYC)
• Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers (grades K-2)
• Exploratorium (where science meets the arts!)
   

Actividades artisticas para familias para hacer en casa (en Español)

• Museum of Modern Art/MOMA (NYC)
• Radio Nacional de Colombia

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