Faculty Resources
The Moody provides faculty with opportunities to interact with world-class art and artists that build upon and supplement their curricula, as well as access to state-of-the-art teaching facilities. Explore the many ways the Moody supports Rice faculty.
Schedule a Class Visit the Moody
The Moody provides opportunities for your students to learn through group discussion and direct encounters with works of art. Through a self-guided or staff-led tour, you can integrate close looking activities into your course assignments. Explore Upcoming Exhibitions or exhibitions currently On View.
To schedule a class visit to the Moody, please contact Lauren Cross, Associate Director of Academic & Public Programs at lauren.cross@rice.edu or 713-348-7287.
Teach in Our Classrooms
Teach a class at the Moody and use art as a teaching tool. The Moody has three registrar-scheduled classrooms (listed as MCA 103, MCA 210, and MCA 237 through the office of the registar) suitable for classes of up to 24 students. The specifications of each classroom are listed on the Classroom Technologies website: https://rooms.tlst.rice.edu/classrooms/59/.
Previous courses taught at the Moody include Asian Religions & Medicine, Black Contemporary Art, Event & Venue Management, Intro to Architectural Thinking, Writing Everyday Life, Modern American Fiction, Monster-Conceiving and Misconceiving the Monstrous in Fiction, and more.
Classroom use requests must be placed through the Office of the Registrar at registrar@rice.edu.
Integrate the Artwork in Your Teaching
Interested in incorporating art and the Moody into your teaching? The Moody Center for the Arts can provide support in drawing meaningful lines of inquiry between our exhibitions and your academic field. Recent cross-disciplinary class experiences at the Moody include:
- Engineering and design
- Education technologies
- Social and political history
- Creative writing and poetry
- Human health and the body
To arrange a curriculum planning meeting, please contact Lauren Cross, Associate Director of Academic & Public Programs at lauren.cross@rice.edu or 713-348-7287.
Utilize Moody Makerspace
The Makerspace is an interdisciplinary lab designed to support current Rice University students and faculty. Enriching curricular innovation by providing professional-level equipment and workspace for creative projects, the Makerspace welcomes students and faculty from all fields of study. To learn more, visit the Moody's Makerspace site.
Apply to the Arts Initiatives Fund
Rice University’s Arts Initiatives Fund (AIF) supports experimentation and collaboration in creativity and the arts across the entire campus. AIF is an internal funding mechanism that awards competitive grants of between $1,000- $20,000 to Rice faculty. These grants are intended to help faculty members develop and implement new projects and courses focused on creativity and the arts that lead to more lasting partnerships, innovative student art-making or teaching environments, cross-disciplinary collaborations, or unusually creative works.
For additional information and application guidelines, please visit https://research.rice.edu/cvent/university/arts-initiatives-fund.