JOIN US FOR OUR FOLLOW-UP WEBINAR ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010!

If you participated in one of our 2010 NEH Picturing America conferences at the Newark Museum, you should have recently received an email invitation to participate in our follow-up seminar on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. EST.
You need only your computer and an Internet connection to participate; the session is free of charge. Be sure to follow the set-up instructions provided in our email carefully so that you are ready to go at 6:00 sharp on the 16th! If you have questions, be sure to contact Elizabeth Aaron, Project Manager, at ejmaaron@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Conference updates

Over 180 teachers from over 40 states participated in the NEH Picturing America conferences at the Newark Museum this year. In February, historians Edward O'Donnell (College of the Holy Cross), Paul Clemens (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) and David Jaffee (The Graduate Center-Bard/CUNY) worked with our teachers. In April, David Roediger (University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign), Josh Brown (Bard/CUNY) and April Masten (SUNY-Stony Brook) brought their expertise on topics such as race and slavery and freedom, the pictorial press of the Gilded Age, and American artists, notions on family, social and cultural revolutions, and changes in American ideas of identity to the conference participants. In June, Erika Doss from the University of Notre Dame, Steve Biel of Harvard University came to the Newark Museum to work with teachers on art and culture in the 20th century. Dr. Doss considered the importance and meaning of American Gothic while Dr. O'Donnell worked with teachers on seeing diversity in American history. Teachers also worked with experts from Visual Understanding in Education on learning how to incorporate the Visual Thinking Strategies into their teaching of art and American history in their libraries and classrooms. Experts from the Museum education staff, museum curators, and teacher leaders shared ideas on teaching with the NEH's Picturing America images and other art and items of material culture from the museum's own collections.


Did you turn in your lesson plan?!

Teachers who attended the NEH Picturing America conferences were required to write a lesson plan or teaching activity based on the content of the conference. If you have not already done so, please email your lesson promptly to Elizabeth Aaron at ejmaaron@andromeda.rutgers.edu. Thank you!
We look forward to sharing the lessons with all our participants as well as a broader audience later this fall through our blog and the Educators' area of our Museum website.

In Preparation for the Conferences


John Updike's Lecture entitled "The Clarity of Things" What is American about American Art?, dated May 22, 2008 at the National Endowment for the Humanities is a great podcast to listen to in preparation for the NEH Picturing America conference at The Newark Museum.

At the conference, you will receive several books from the Museum, but they are not required reading for the sessions! Rather, we hope you take them home and read them on your own after the conferences. They will add to and enrich your understanding of our scholars' presentations.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Welcome Information

We are thrilled to welcome you to Newark in 2010 for the Newark Museum NEH Picturing America Conferences. Should you wish to inquire about room sharing to reduce your travel costs feel free to use our blog to communicate with each other. We look forward to seeing you in February, April or June. If you have other questions pertaining to the conference, please email Elizabeth Aaron, Project Manager.
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13 comments:

  1. pearl lauDecember 5, 2009 at 7:53 PM

    I'm a female art teacher interested in sharing a room for the April Newark conf. Please e-mail me pearllau@aol.com

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  2. Sista KateDecember 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM

    I am middle aged artist/teacher attending the June conference, looking to share a hotel room. Thanks, Kathleen at katiekoop@gmail.com

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  3. BMDecember 8, 2009 at 8:25 PM

    40 year old female teacher-librarian from CA looking to share room June 22-25 will also be ok with room share June 23-25 if needed
    email skyokwa2000@yahoo.com

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  4. UnknownDecember 14, 2009 at 9:25 AM

    I am also a young 55 year old female art teacher/artist wanting to share a hotel room for the June conference. email is kjsbud@hotmail.com. I will start to email the ones I see listed. Thanks! Karla

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  5. Kim S-TDecember 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    Kim S-T wants to know the museum photography policy.

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  6. DNkemontohDecember 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    I'm also hoping to share a room. I'm female, 50, and teach online language arts and social studies. contact me at yourteacher@dennyn.com.

    I'm also eager to learn about the photography policy.

    Denny

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2010 at 11:38 AM

    Hi, Kim (and our other blog followers...)
    There is no flash photography allowed in the Museum. However - all conference participants will receive a flash drive on it with high-quality digital images of lots of pieces from the Museum collection as well as those referenced in lesson plans and other presentations at the conferences. In addition, if there is an image in the Museum that you would like for your teaching that is not on the flash drive, the Museum will be sure to get one for you.

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2010 at 11:49 AM

    Newark has a thriving arts community - for those of you who are interested especially in modern and contemporary art, or who are artists yourselves, you might want visit www.newarkarts.org to see what is happening around town during your stay in Newark. In October, over 30 sites participated in the Newark Open Doors studio tour.

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  9. UnknownJanuary 2, 2010 at 4:36 PM

    Dear Elizabeth,
    I am lurking and reading the posts. I just read that Newark has a Penn station, too. Confusing to traveler.
    If I want to spend a day at the MET in NYC after the conference, what is the best way to get there? On the MET website I read take the train to Penn station, but now I am confused. Can I easily take a train in to NYC's Penn station?
    Thanks,
    Robin from OK

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  10. RobinJanuary 3, 2010 at 12:56 PM

    Dear Elizabeth and all,
    Forgive me writing above before thinking. The videos The Once and Future Newark with Rutgers Professor Price answered many of my questions and was a delightful insight to your city.
    Thanks again, and I am looking forward to a great conference and visit to Newark.
    Robin from OK

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  11. UnknownJanuary 5, 2010 at 8:40 AM

    Elizabeth,
    Would you recommend that we bring laptops with us for use during the conference?

    Thanks!
    Kris

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  12. michivy1January 7, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    I am coming to the January Conference and am looking for a roommate. I am 58, female and from Jacksonville, FL. I teach high school American history, and am looking forward to the conference though not the cold! Please contact me at ivym@duvalschools.org. Thanks!

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  13. Kathryn DesmondMay 1, 2010 at 7:38 AM

    I am coming to the June conference and wondered if anyone else would be interested in either of the concerts mentioned at the top of the blog - the Beethoven or Taylor/King concert on June 25. Let me know if you are and perhaps we could group and buy tickets somehow.
    Thanks,
    Kathryn Desmond

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