Visual-EYES-ing a Portrait of a Graduate is aligned with Fairfax County Public School's 6th grade standards and curriculum. This Learning Lab collection complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program of the same name.

The Visual-EYES-ing a Portrait of a Graduate student program explores prominent Americans who embody communication, collaboration, resilience, creativity, and global citizenship, while investigating how these traits led to the individuals’ significant contributions to American history and culture. During their visit, students will communicate, collaborate, and engage in critical thinking as they consider portraiture. The program strives to inspire, connect, and provide relevance to the students as they complete/grow into their own self-portrait as a graduate.

After completing this lesson, students will be better able to:

• Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components, as well as investigate how these components reveal the viewpoints (of artist, sitter, and viewer) represented through the depiction of the sitters
• Identify important Americans from colonial times to the present and analyze their contributions to US history and determine how they exemplify Portrait of a Graduate attributes
• Analyze the various perspectives that artists bring to their work and examine the intended messages of the artists to discover a variety of ways to represent identity while determining if the portrait is realistic or idealized, representational or abstract, or if it fits on a spectrum
• Utilize critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and citizenship skills.

Schedule a virtual Visual-EYES-ing a Portrait of a Graduate student program with National Portrait Gallery educators.

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Keywords: Portraits, Attributes, Communicator, Collaborator, Ethical, Global Citizenship, Creative, Critical Thinking, Goal Directed, Resilient Individual, Significant Americans, FCPS, Sixth Grade