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.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Just in time for the start of the first NEH Picturing America conference at The Newark Museum: an article in the January 27, 2010 New York Times reminds us of the difficult work of historians, archeologists, and those who teach with material culture as they try to help us understand the past.



www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/arts/design/27sankofa.html?scp=1&sq=african burial ground&st=cse
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