Our conference check-in starts at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, June 23. The Museum is open until 5:00 so you have that time to wander our galleries and enjoy the Museum shop. While the cafe will be closed at that time, there are several coffee shops nearby should you need some refreshment.
Our welcome reception starts at 5:00 and we hope that you will take this time to mingle and meet each other and enjoy snacks and beverages courtesy of the NEH and the Newark Museum. At 6:00 pm, we will adjourn to the Museum auditorium for our keynote speaker, Dr. Clement A. Price of Rutgers University-Newark. After the reception, the Museum is closed. Should you need some more nourishment, Kilkenny's Pub, 27 Mix, McGovern's, and Nick's on Central are all within a short walk of the Museum and on the way back to both the Hilton and Best Western hotels.
Complimentary breakfast on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings starts at 8:15 at the Museum. Our morning sessions begin at 9. We break for lunch at about 12.
There is jazz in the Museum gardens on Thursday, so if the weather is good, you may wish to take your lunch out there. The Museum has arranged for a special $10 conference lunch for us - choice of several chicken, grains, pasta or green salads, dessert, cold beverages, and coffee/tea. Our afternoon sessions begin at 1 and finish around 3:45. You may stay to visit the Museum galleries until we close at 5.
On Saturday, our sessions will end at approximately 11:00.
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.
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, June 2, 2010
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