Indians, Corn, and the American West: Maynard Dixon's New Deal Mural for the U.S. Department of the Interior

Description

From the Department of the Interior Museum website:

"Erika Doss will highlight the complexities surrounding government-funded art projects during the 1930s and discuss how American artist Maynard Dixon negotiated with New Deal tastemakers in his depiction of modern American Indians and the American West. In 1937, the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal arts program, commissioned a two-panel mural for the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in the Main Interior Building. Dixon was asked to depict 'themes taken from the activities' of the BIA. Following the lecture, visitors are invited to view Dixon's Indian and Soldier and Indian and Teacher murals in the Main Interior Building."

Contact name
Diana Ziegler
Sponsoring Organization
Department of the Interior Museum
Phone number
202-208-4743
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Duration
One and a half hours

History of Photography

Description

From the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration website:

"Learn about key American photographers and photographic processes and styles, as well as how photography from 1839 to the present day relates to American history. Receive digital images, image guides, and other materials to make connections between photography's history and levels of language arts, science, social studies, and visual art."

Program provided by the Amon Carter Museum.

Contact name
Nancy Strickland
Sponsoring Organization
Amon Carter Museum
Phone number
817-989-5038
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$10 for individuals; $200 for a group of up to 35 educators in a point-to-point connection
Duration
Two hours

Chicago History Museum: Teacher Workshop

Description

From the Chicago History Museum website:

"Discover how to incorporate public art into your history instruction. Join James Percoco on a visual journey to see Abraham Lincoln monuments across the country. Percoco compares their meanings when they were unveiled with how we respond to them now, as well as shares tips for analyzing public art with students. See the exhibition 'Abraham Lincoln Transformed' and investigate the Lincoln monument behind the Museum. Fee includes a copy of Percoco's Summers with Lincoln, breakfast refreshments, and classroom resource materials."

Sponsoring Organization
Chicago History Museum
Phone number
312-642-4600
Target Audience
PreK-12
Start Date
Cost
$40
Course Credit
"3 CPDUs."
Duration
Three hours

Chicago History Museum: Student Workshop

Description

From the Chicago History Museum website:

"In this workshop, middle- and high-school students play the role of historians. Facilitated by teacher and author of Summers with Lincoln James Percoco, students investigate the meanings and legacies of Abraham Lincoln in public art. Students explore the exhibition 'Abraham Lincoln Transformed,' analyze the monument in the museum's backyard, and work with a local artist to formulate a creative response to the statue."

Phone number
312-642-4600
Target Audience
"Middle- and high-school students"
Start Date
Course Credit
Free
Duration
Two and a half hours

NEH Picturing America School Collaboration Projects Grants

Description

From the National Endowment for the Humanities:

"American colleges, universities, associations, libraries, museums, and other non-profit organizations are encouraged to design conferences that help educators who have already received the Picturing America images form connections with courses in the core curriculum."

For more on the Picturing America program, refer to the Picturing America website.

Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Photograph, "Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965," James Karales
Application Deadline
Award Amount
Up to $75,000

High Museum of Art: Educators Free Day

Description

From the High Museum of Art website:

"Bring your school ID on July 24 and receive free admission for yourself and a guest. No advance reservation needed!

School Programs and Group Sales staff will be on hand to answer questions and distribute free teacher resources."

Sponsoring Organization
High Museum of Art
Phone number
404-733-4468
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Six hours

Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929: A Summer Institute for High-school Teachers

Description

How did World War I affect politics in the United States? Why did the prestige and power of American business dramatically increase in the 1920s? What explains the remarkable cultural ferment of this period? What place did religious and spiritual values assume in the United States during the 1920s? How did concepts of citizenship and national identity change in the decade after World War I? How did women and African Americans struggle to advance social equality? How did modernizing and traditional forces clash during the decade?

This institute will explore these and other questions through history, literature, and art. Under the direction of leading scholars, participants will examine such issues as immigration, prohibition, radicalism, changing moral standards, and evolution to discover how the forces of modernity and traditionalism made the 1920s both liberating and repressive. Participants will assist National Humanities Center staff in identifying texts and defining lines of inquiry for a new addition to the Center's Toolbox Library, which provides online resources for teacher professional development and classroom instruction.

Contact name
Schramm, Richard R.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Phone number
877-271-7444
Target Audience
High
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,000 stipend
Contact Title
Vice President for Education Programs
Duration
Eleven days
End Date

Ventura County Museum of History & Art [CA]

Description

"The Museum of Ventura County promotes understanding of Ventura County’s history, art and culture through collections, exhibitions, publications, public programs and research." The museum first opened in 1913 and was known as the pioneer museum. The museum was known throughout the country for its interesting a varied collection of pioneer artifacts. The museum moved to its current location in 1973, and is now undergoing an extensive renovation. The museum currently holds an impressive range of collections, which chronicle Ventura County's history from ancient times to now.

The site offers visitor information, a museum store, information on educational programs, information regarding the current expansion project, and an online library catalog.

This entry is a duplicate of 8194.