Phoebe Hillemann
Teacher Institutes Educator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Staff
As the Teacher Institutes Educator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, I organize our week-long summer institutes for middle and high school English and social studies teachers: http://americanart.si.edu/institutes. I'm interested in interdisciplinary thinking, arts integration, and the power of dialogue in learning spaces.
Phoebe Hillemann's collections
Life in DC: Then and Now
<p>Explore images of Washington, DC, using artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Compare them to the present, learning about changing neighborhoods, people and daily life, natural resources, and arts & culture. This collection can be adapted for students of different grade levels learning about DC history.</p>
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SAAM General Resources
<p>This collection was created for the Smithsonian Summer Sessions for Teachers in July 2020, and contains resources related to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's breakout session as well as additional education resources for teachers and students.<br></p>
<p>#SummerSessions</p>
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#BecauseOfHerStory: The Power of Posters
<p>Resources supporting a January 7, 2021 teacher workshop led by the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum. </p><p>Posters and prints are an immediately accessible and iconic art form; they are in our bedrooms, our classrooms, and in the protests in our streets. What can we learn from the way posters communicate visually? </p>
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Global Stories on a Human Scale: Connecting to Refugee Narratives
<p>How do we connect students with global issues, such as refugee crises? How do we move from listening and learning to taking action?<br></p>
<p>The resources in this collection were created for a collaborative session organized by the National Postal Museum & Smithsonian American Art Museum during the 2021 Smithsonian Summer Sessions for Teachers: Interrogating the Stories We Tell. </p>
<p>#SummerSessions</p>
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Masks, Disguise, and Identity
<p>Explore pieces created to mask or disguise, from Nick Cave's Soundsuits to masks made during the Covid-19 pandemic. How do these works conceal or amplify identity (of the wearer, or the artist)? How do they relate to history and culture? </p>
<p>Resource created for a September 30, 2021 Artful Teaching Moments program led by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.</p>
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William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom
<p>In the <em>Fighters for Freedom</em> William H. Johnson created a pantheon of historic and contemporary leaders who dedicated their lives to racial justice, individual accomplishment, and social equality. The series features African American abolitionists, scientists, teachers, performers and sports figures, and momentous meetings of allied heads of state.</p>
<p>Collection created to support a session at the 2021 National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) virtual conference.</p>
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Inspiring Creative, Narrative, & Argumentative Writing with Art
<p>Explore different styles of writing in response to American art! This digital collection suggests artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to use to inspire creative, narrative, and argumentative writing, along with suggested thinking routines and writing prompts. The categories are fluid -- many artworks can be used successfully for more than one type of writing!<br></p>
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