School Groups

First Visit: Enduring Spirit

Tour Time: 45 minutes
Group Size: 45 students or less
Recommended Grade Levels: Kindergarten and 1st grade
First Visit tours are designed to introduce key museum concepts to young visitors. This tour takes place in our Enduring Spirit galleries, so students will also learn about Native American art and artifacts.

Small Talk: Living in the Southwest

Tour Time: 45 minutes
Group Size: 50 students or less
Recommended Grade Levels: 2nd and 3rd grade
Small Talk tours focus on how early settlers and Native Americans shared Western America. Students look at works of art from the Southwest and Mexico galleries and use touch-objects and artifacts at tour stops to explain key concepts.

Enduring Spirit: Native American Artistic Traditions

Tour Time: 45 minutes to 1 hour
Group Size: 45 students or less
Recommended Grade Levels: 3rd grade and up
Enduring Spirit tours highlight some of the museum’s vast collection of Native American art and artifacts. Tours will look at art and artists from the Plains, the Southwest, Northwest Coast and Arctic regions of North America. Major themes of this exhibition include change and continuity, cultural differences and Native American expressions of self-identity. Oklahoma artists such as Acee Blue Eagle, Woody Crumbo and Willard Stone are represented.

Ancient Americas: Treasures from the Pre-Columbian Collections

Tour Time: 45 minutes to 1 hour
Group Size: 40 students or less
Recommended Grade Levels: 3rd grade and up
Ancient Americas tours take a closer look at the Hispanic cultures of the Western Hemisphere that were founded in antiquity and how their traditions have survived or changed through the centuries. Ancient Americas examines over 3,000 years of tradition and change, from the art of the Olmec, Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas to the 20th-century works of Jose Chavez Morado and Diego Rivera.

Lab Time: 1 hour
Group Size: 24 students or less (no exceptions)
Recommended Grade Levels: 4th grade and up
Kravis Labs provide opportunities for students to explore the Kravis Discovery Center. Kravis provides access to thousands of objects relating to the early history of the Americas. From 12,000-year-old Clovis points to 20th-century Plains Indian beadwork, the Kravis Discovery Center brings state-of-the-art technology and artifacts together for an exciting new look at the Gilcrease Museum’s anthropology collection.  

Kravis Konnections

Konnection Time: 30 minutes
Group Size: 24 students or less (no exceptions)
Recommended Grade Levels: Kindergarten and First Grade
Young museum visitors discover the wonders of the artifacts within Kravis Discovery Center's visible storage in ways that help them describe items by identifying colors and shapes, comparing item sizes, and how the items may have been used.

Kravis Discovery Center Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt Time: 30 minutes
Group Size: 24 students or less (no exceptions)
Recommended Grade Levels: Second and Third Grade
Students complete worksheets using the Kravis Discovery Center's computers to discover information about specific items.  Once their worksheets are complete, the students explore the storage drawers to see the actual items they have researched.

Dreams and Visions

Tour Time: 45 minutes - 1 hour, dependent upon grade
Group Size: 50 students or less
Recommended Grade Levels: 4th grade and up
Dreams and Visions tours showcase what many consider to be the greatest collection of western art in the world with the museum's best-known works, including paintings and bronze sculptures by Frederic Remington, wonderful watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller and epic landscapes by Thomas Moran. The tour is visual journey that explores the artists' views of the land, the myths and the realities that make up the American story of western expansion.

Art Encounters

Tour Time: 1.5 hours
Group Size: One class
Recommended Grade Levels: 2nd - 8th
Have fun learning to make friends with a work of art. Classes will spend a half an hour to forty minutes in the galleries, concentrating on one or two works of art, studying them, discussing them, and making friends with them. The second half of the program will be art-making relating to the artwork that has just been studied. The gallery sessions will include sketching activities. Students and teachers will learn new ways to get to know and understand art work as well as share what they know already. Different groups will be able to come to a single painting and come away with different experiences based on the dynamics of each group. Art Encounters is a program that embraces interdisciplinary perspectives of art, including language arts, science, history, mathematics and art appreciation. Art Encounters is a program for teachers and students to experience together.

Group Tours

Groups should contact the Gilcrease Museum Coordinator of Volunteer Services at gilcrease-tours@utulsa.edu if they plan to self-tour. Please click here for tour guidelines and additional information.

Reservations

Gilcrease offers guided tours for groups of all ages. All tours, except self-guided experiences, require three weeks advanced scheduling. To make tour reservations, please complete and submit a Tour Reservation Form. For additional information, please email gilcrease-tours@utulsa.edu.