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Resources & Professional Development

Spring Joy

Hello, all!

I was recently speaking with teachers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. We were chatting about what color one might use to paint “joy.” Yellow got a lot of votes, so I’m sending you a little pop of joy with this Georgia O’Keeffe image.

As we shift into the season of melting snow, shining sun, and renewal, I’m offering you two teaching resources and an opportunity to engage with my pals at Ford’s Theatre.

Cheering you on,

Elizabeth

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Women's History Month
Teahcher Resources

Check out Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists, a series of web comics featuring artists who have work represented in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These comics are designed to give young people the opportunity to identify with the struggles and triumphs of visionaries, to see themselves reflected, and to draw strength from that visibility.

Learn about ways to weave women’s history into your existing curriculum with our series of webinars, A Woman’s Place Is in the Curriculum: Women’s History through American Art and Portraiture.

Explore the Webinars

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Spend a Week in Wonder (Summer Institutes)
Application Deadline: April 3, 2023

June 27 – 30 OR July 25 – 28, 2023
Be inspired this summer! Attend one of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s four-day summer institutes in the nation’s capital. Join a community of educators from across the country for an exciting exploration of the connections among American art, social studies, history, and English Language Arts.

Apply Now

Fighters for Freedom
Teaching Resource

Delve into William H. Johnson’s 1940s-era portraits of influential figures in the Emancipation and African American Civil Rights Movements. Decode imagery and discover hidden stories, reflect on connections between the individuals portrayed, and consider how past struggles for justice may relate to the present.

See the Free Resource

A gray-scale engraving of Abraham Lincoln.

Ford’s Theatre: Multi-Year Professional Development
Deadline: Saturday, April 1, 2023

Shouting out our friends at Ford’s Theatre: Inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s oratory, National Oratory Fellows are a network of teachers who cultivate student voices in Grades 5-8 by making public speaking a part of the everyday classroom experience.

Check It Out

Image Credits:
Georgia O'Keeffe, Yellow Calla, 1926, oil on fiberboard, 9 x 12 3⁄4 in. (22.9 x 32.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation, 1978.34

Banner for Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists, Various illustrators, Ringling College of Art and Design

Visitors at SAAM viewing Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii

William H. Johnson, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1146

Henry Wolf, Abraham Lincoln, 1912, photomechanical wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.277

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