How do artists use their voices to tell important stories of social change? How can we amplify the issues we care about and create change? AMPLIFY, a joint program by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, invites middle and high school students to explore different aspects of art and social justice through interactive tours and art-making. Click on the tour offerings below to learn more! 
 

AMPLIFY Earth: Environmental Design

Rain gardens are a way to beautify communities, help reduce pollutant runoff from entering the water supply, and reintroduce indigenous plants and animals to the area. Through this tour, students will discuss the importance of ecologically-centered design practice and how small-scale interventions impact change in our communities.

 

AMPLIFY Programs at Other Institutions

AMPLIFY: Building a Better World

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

What moves you? What are you fighting for? These are some of the questions that
visitors will consider as they move through the galleries. Inspired by Ad Minoliti’s
Manifestión Pluriversal, this tour will explore the ideal worlds and societies that
Minoliti along with local artists Saj Issa and Ronald Young are creating through their
artworks.

 

AMPLIFY: Stories of the Land

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Students will learn about artworks that explore our complex relationship to the land
from histories of settler colonialism and Native resistance to contemporary visions of
the land amid globalization and climate change. Students will collaborate on a
landscape that expresses their aspirations for human-land relationships and what
stories the land will tell in the future. Find out more.
AMPLIFY: Stories of Resilience

Saint Louis Art Museum

Students will explore artworks and stories that celebrate ways artists (or their
subjects) have overcome obstacles, repurposed materials or ideas, or used their
unique perspectives and creativity to advocate for inclusive communities and values.
Following the tour, students will engage in art-making to more deeply examine themes
from the tour in relation to their own lived experiences. Find out more.
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Missouri Visual Arts Standards: VA:Cr2C, VA:Re7A, VA:Re7B, VA:Cn10A
Missouri Social Studies Standards: 9-12.GV.1.PC.A