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RICH Launches Picturing America Materials to support RI Educators

Free Supplment Focused on Integrated Teaching in the Arts and Humanities

The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is pleased to announce the publication of free materials for Rhode Island educators to supplement the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Picturing America Initiative. The “Focus on Integrated Teaching in the Arts and Humanities: A Supplement to Picturing America for Rhode Island Educators” packet, created by Masters of Arts in Teaching Harmony Thompson and Danielle Pottberg, highlights and integrates themes of local interest into the existing national program.

Picturing America is composed of forty, carefully selected works of art spanning several centuries — all by American painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects. The NEH distributed large, high-quality reproductions of these images, along with a teachers’ resource book, lesson plans, and materials, to schools and libraries nationwide. Including the Web site http://PicturingAmerica.neh.gov, Picturing America’s resources unlock the potential in each work of art to enhance the study of American history, social studies, language arts, literature, and civics.

RICH’s Picturing America packet uses the visual materials provided by NEH as a launch pad to dynamic classroom discussions that integrate Social Studies, Civics and Government, Economics, Geography, English Language Arts, and Visual Arts. The packet is divided into 3 parts: Artists Under Rule, American Craft: American People, and Honoring People and Events. Each of these units connects the historical art pieces to contemporary art, literature and events. The Packet also provides educators with Rhode Island Standards applied to the NEH’s Picturing America materials.

Download Focus on Integrated Teaching in the Arts and Humanities: A Supplement to Picturing America for Rhode Island Educators

NEH's Picturing America Main Site

NEH's Educators Resources Page

Lesson Plans from NEH

List of Rhode Island Picturing America Recipients

Public Libraries with the Picturing America Packet

Central Falls Free Public Library

Exeter Public Library

Greenville Public Library

Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library

Langworthy Public Library

North Smithfield Public Library