The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Faces of Strength: Through the Eyes of Female Artists
A Matter of Perspective: workshops for teachers inspired by the exhibition A Woman's Matter 1550-2025
Admission
Tickets (workshops and exhibition): PLN 10
Location
The group will meet in workshop room C (ground floor, next to the cloakroom).
Who is it for?
For teachers in elementary and secondary schools.
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #228, from the History Portraits series, 1990, chromogenic color print, 208.4 x 122 cm (The Museum of Modern Art) © Cindy Sherman
What is power? Do we associate it exclusively with authority, domination, and physical superiority? During the workshop, we will reflect on this concept in greater depth. Looking at selected works by female artists presented at the exhibition, we will consider how contemporary art shows another side of power: the one that arises from emotions, relationships, empathy, everyday experiences, and overcoming one's own limitations.
Art will become a space for us to talk about perseverance, sensitivity, and various ways of coping with the world—key topics in today's work with young people.
The classes are experiential in nature. We invite you to go through a workshop process similar to the one we offer to students at the Museum. We will use methods based on active participation, discussion, and storytelling, which develop visual interpretation and empathetic thinking skills. The meeting is both a methodological inspiration and an invitation to use the exhibition space in educational work. During the meeting:
The classes are experiential in nature. We invite you to go through a workshop process similar to the one we offer to students at the Museum. We will use methods based on active participation, discussion, and storytelling, which develop visual interpretation and empathetic thinking skills. The meeting is both a methodological inspiration and an invitation to use the exhibition space in educational work. During the meeting:
- We will consider how artists redefine the concept of strength, moving away from established stereotypes in favor of emotions and relationships.
- We will seek answers to the question of how art can support young people in understanding their own feelings and building mental resilience.
- We will analyze the educational potential of museums as safe spaces for dialogue about values and identity.
- We will experience methods and processes in practice that you can later transfer to your work with your own classes.
Biography of the instructor:
Karo Jabłońska – MSN educator, art history student at the University of Warsaw. She conducts guided tours of exhibitions, classes for children and young people, and workshops. She is inspired by the practice of storytelling and conversations with objects, asking them questions and then searching for answers together.
The question of perspective
Workshops for teachers inspired by the exhibition "The Female Question 1550-2025"
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites you to a new series of workshops for teachers, created around the exhibition "The Female Question 1550-2025."
We know that working with the canon and implementing the core curriculum requirements is a daily challenge in school work. In the rush, there is often no space for introducing additional contexts or in-depth discussion of perspectives that are absent from mainstream culture. Our meetings are an opportunity to pause for a moment and reflect on your daily teaching activities. We want to offer you a fresh perspective that will help enrich your history, Polish language, and cultural studies lessons. During the meetings, we will consider together how to work critically with cultural texts and how to use contemporary and historical art to talk to young people about emotions, identity, and the power of the female voice.
