Nicole Vance's collections
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
<p>Take a close look at the portraits and objects within “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. “Votes for Women” outlines the more than 80-year movement for women to obtain the right to vote as part of the larger struggle for equality that continued through the 1965 Civil Rights Act and arguably lingers today. This Learning Module highlights figures such as Lucy Stone and Alice Paul, but also sheds light on the racial struggles of the suffrage movement and how African American women, often excluded by white women from the main suffrage organizations, organized for citizenship rights (including the right to vote).</p>
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Nicole Vance
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We the People: Who are We as an American People?
<p>We the People: Who are We as an American People? explores the ways in which artists and sitters use portraiture as a means to convey American history and identity. Students will learn about American geography, culture, civilization, symbols, and the Civil War through the faces of the people who have shaped the United States of America.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Exploring Identity through Portraiture
<p>This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, Exploring Identity through Portraiture.</p>
<p>Exploring Identity through Portraiture explores the ways in which artists and sitters use portraiture as a means to convey individual, community/cultural, and national identity. By analyzing portraits, including self-portraits, students will consider how the artists tell the sitters’ stories, paying attention to how the artists’ choices reveal some—but perhaps not all—aspects of the sitters’ identity. Students will explore how portraiture can be an avenue that they can use to represent their own identities and make meaning of what is important to them.<br></p>
<p><strong>Objectives</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p>
<p>• Examine how modern and contemporary artists use portraiture to reveal aspects of a sitter’s individual, community/cultural, and national identity. </p>
<p>• Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components. </p>
<p>• Discuss the artistic choices that portrait artists make and consider how such decisions can reveal the artists’ viewpoints and also influence the viewers’ understanding of the sitters’ identity. </p>
<p>• Use the museum’s collection as a gateway to investigating and exploring one’s own individual, community/cultural, and national identity.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Visualizing Democracy
<p>This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, Visualizing Democracy. </p>
<p>Students will visualize democracy from the colonial era to the 21st century by analyzing portraits of major figures who played a critical role—as government officials, engaged citizens, or both—in creating a democratic society for the United States. Students will investigate how portraiture can convey democratic ideals and how, as a cultural institution housed in a historic building, the National Portrait Gallery has been and continues to be relevant to American democracy.</p>
<p><strong>Objectives</strong></p>
<p>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p>
<ul><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components. </li><li>Analyze the history of portraiture and understand how it has evolved from a means to document wealthy individuals to an accessible art form used to represent people from all walks of life. </li><li>Understand the nuance of the word democracy, to comprehend how portraiture’s evolution (the democratization of portraiture) has helped democratize society by giving voice to individuals who have historically been underrepresented. </li><li>Discuss the three branches of federal government and the value of citizen involvement in a democracy. Analyze the legacy of individuals who have been instrumental in creating, improving, and maintaining American democracy. </li><li>Recognize and analyze how cultural institutions, like the National Portrait Gallery, are important components of a robust democracy. </li></ul>
<p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">Schedule</a> a virtual Visualizing Democracy student program with National Portrait Gallery educators.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Picturing Community
<p>How do we define community today? Through social media our connections with family, friends and acquaintances are increasingly widespread. And yet we are still drawn to the idea of small communities and the face-to-face interactions they promote. The artists represented in this learning lab module explore this concept through a series of related portraits of families, friends, neighbors, and various identity groups.</p>
<p>After completing this learning lab module, students will be better able to:</p>
<ul><li>Identify and analyze key components of a portrait</li>
<li>Explore the definition of “community” and its relevance in their own lives.</li></ul><p>#NPGteach</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Portraying Global Citizenship
<p>Students will analyze portraiture as it relates to global citizenship. Students will identify specific situations where human or cultural factors are involved in global conflict and identify different viewpoints in the struggle and will recognize the cultural contributions of various ethnic groups in the United States to the world.</p>
<p>This learning lab module addresses the following questions through portrait conversations:</p>
<ul><li>What is the role of the US in the world?</li><li>What does it mean to be a global citizen?</li><li>What are some ways that historical figures participated as an active member of the global community?</li><li>What choices did historical figures make that positively impacted you, others, or the environment?</li><li>What choices did historical figures make that negatively impacted you, others, or the environment? </li><li>Is the United States a melting pot or a salad bowl?</li></ul><p>#NPGteach</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Portrait Detectives
<p>This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, Portrait Detectives.</p>
<p>Students will be transformed into Portrait Detectives, searching portraits for and analyzing clues to learn more about significant Americans. Through interactive discussions and sketching and writing activities, students will read, compare, and contrast portraits across the collection. This module is divided into the following themes to best support your curriculum and student interests: Presidents, Activists, Icons, and Scientists.</p>
<p><strong>Objectives:</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p>
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<li>Identify important Americans and analyze their contributions to U.S. History <br>
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<li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components.</li></ul>
<p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">Schedule</a> a virtual Portrait Detectives program with National Portrait Gallery educators.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Power and Portraiture
<p>Power and Portraiture highlights the ways in which artists and sitters use portraiture as a means to convey power. By analyzing portraiture, students will consider how power is visualized, gained, used, justified, and revoked. Students will explore the powerful contributions to the history and culture of the United States through portraits of the following individuals:</p>
<ul><li>Rosa Parks</li><li>Belva Lockwood</li><li>Eunice Kennedy Shriver </li><li>LL Cool J</li><li>Henrietta Lacks</li><li>An Unidentified Enslaved Woman</li></ul><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p>
<ul><li>Examine how modern and contemporary artists use portraiture to reveal aspects of a sitter’s individual, community/cultural, and national identity. </li><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components. </li><li>Discuss the artistic choices that portrait artists make and consider how such decisions can reveal the artists’ viewpoints and also influence the viewers’ understanding of the sitters’ identity. </li><li>Use the museum’s collection as a gateway to investigating and exploring of the visualization of power.</li></ul><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p>
<p>Portraiture, Power, Rosa Parks, Civil Rights, Social Justice, Belva Lockwood, Women's Suffrage, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Disabilities, Special Olympics, LL Cool J, Rap Music, Henrietta Lacks, STEAM, Enslavement, Sally Hemings, #NPGteach</p>
Nicole Vance
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Voices of Social Justice
<p>This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's 2021-2022 student program, Voices of Social Justice.<br></p>
<p>Students will learn about some of the major figures who struggled to obtain civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups. They will listen to stories of social justice and analyze portraits of individuals who broke barriers—from key nineteenth-century reformers to modern leaders—and will likely be encouraged to consider how they, too, can become civically engaged.</p>
<p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">Schedule</a> a virtual Voices of Social Justice student program with National Portrait Gallery educators.</p>
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<p>Keywords: Social Justice, Activists, Civil Rights, Reform, Change, Disenfranchised, Abolition, Suffrage, Labor Rights, Citizenship Rights, Japanese Incarceration, Boycotts, Protest, March, Justice, Black Lives Matter</p>
Nicole Vance
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Shaping America: Exploring Portraiture from the Colonial Era to the Civil War
<p>This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, Shaping America.</p>
<p>Meet the politicians, reformers, inventors, authors, soldiers, and others who shaped the course of American history from the Colonial Era through the Civil War. Students will analyze portraits to learn about the diverse and significant contributions to American society made by individuals in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.</p>
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<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> After completing this lesson, students will be better able to:</p>
<ul><li> Identify important Americans and analyze their contributions to U.S. History</li><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components</li></ul>
<p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Colonies, Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, Civil War, Abolition, Suffrage</p>
Nicole Vance
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The Art of Portraiture
<p>This Learning Lab Collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student program, The Art of Portraiture.</p>
<p>Students will take a close look at modern and contemporary portraiture through the lens of artists’ decisions, paying particular attention to the different approaches that artists take to their subject matter and the different processes that they use in making their art.<br></p>
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<p>Objectives:</p>
<ul><li>Examine modern and contemporary portraiture and identify, compare, and contrast visual elements in the portrait.</li><li>Identify and analyze the contributions of modern and contemporary Americans to U.S. history and society.</li><li>Discuss the specific choices an artist has made in his or her portraits.</li><li>Discuss the relevancy of portraiture as a contemporary art form.</li></ul><p>Learn more about our <a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">virtual 2020-2021 student programs</a> and explore more of the <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/org/npg">National Portrait Gallery's Learning Lab collections</a>.</p>
<p>Keywords: Portraiture, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Mixed Media, Video Art, Engraving, Printmaking, Artist, Contemporary, Artistic Style, Symbols, Biography, Self-Portrait</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Reading Portraiture: A Guide for Educators
<p>The National Portrait Gallery tells the story of the United States by portraying the people who shape the nation’s history, development, and culture. These individuals understand who we are and remind us of what we can aspire to be.</p>
<p>In this guide, you will discover how to teach students to spot visual clues in portraits and then analyze them, similar to dissecting a historical document. Teaching students to use close reading skills with portraiture will produce a rich and memorable investigation of both the sitter and the artist. Use the close looking strategies in this collection as a springboard for classroom conversations. Portraits present insights into history and biography, prompt writing in the classroom, inspire students to create self-portraits, and even offer great ties to science and mathematics.<br></p>
<p>The Learning to Look strategies in this guide offer unique ways to engage in close looking and portraiture with your students. The Elements of Portrayal provide more guiding questions to help you and your students learn how to read portraiture.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Young Portrait Explorers: Belva Ann Lockwood
<p><strong>Learning Objective: </strong>Learn about Belva Lockwood’s contribution to American history.</p>
<p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Belva Ann Lockwood, Young Portrait Explorers, Suffrage, Famous Women, American Women, Diploma, Lawyer, Graduation, Votes for Women, Supreme Court</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Collisions in Portraiture
<p>Collisions in Portraiture highlights the ways in which artists and sitters use portraiture to reveal what happens when cultures collide. By analyzing portraiture, students will consider how cultural collisions are visualized from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Students will explore the powerful contributions to the history and culture of the United States through portraiture.</p>
<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p>
<ul><li>Examine how modern and contemporary artists use portraiture to reveal aspects of a sitter’s individual, community/cultural, and national identity. </li><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components. </li><li>Discuss the artistic choices that portrait artists make and consider how such decisions can reveal the artists’ viewpoints and also influence the viewers’ understanding of the sitters’ identity. </li><li>Use the museum’s collection as a gateway to investigating and exploring of the visualization of colliding cultures.</li></ul><p>#NPGteach</p>
<p><strong>Keywords</strong></p>
<p>Portraiture, Collisions, Harriet Tubman, Civil War, Stonewall, Roger Shimomura, Chief Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg, United Farm Workers</p>
Nicole Vance
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Explore! at the National Portrait Gallery
<p>This Learning Lab collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student Program, Explore!</p>
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<p>The Explore! program introduces young students to portraiture. They will be exposed to what makes up a portrait and search portraits for clues to learn more about themselves and significant Americans. Through interactive discussions and hands-on activities, students will read, compare, and contrast portraits across the collection.</p>
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<p>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to:<br></p>
<ul><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components.</li></ul>
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Nicole Vance
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The Portraits
<p>The National Portrait Gallery tells the story of the United States of America by portraying the people who shape the nation’s history, development and culture.</p>
<p>This collection is a virtual gallery of all the portraits found within student programs at the National Portrait Gallery. Learn more about our <a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">virtual student programs</a> and explore more of the <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/org/npg">National Portrait Gallery's Learning Lab collections</a>.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Facing the Past, Present, and Future through Portraiture
<p>The Learning Lab Collection highlights the ways in which portraiture reveals the past, present, and future of artist, sitters, and the nation. By analyzing portraiture, students will consider how portraiture reflects the past, mirrors the present, and inspires the future. Students will explore a variety of mediums, sitters, and eras of the United States through portraiture of the following individuals:</p>
<ul><li>Faith Ringgold</li><li>Fred T. Korematsu</li><li>Leonora O'Reilly</li><li>Fisk Jubilee Singers</li></ul><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: <br /></p>
<ul><li>Examine how modern and contemporary artists use portraiture to reveal aspects of a sitter’s individual, community/cultural, and national identity. </li><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components. </li><li>Discuss the artistic choices that portrait artists make and consider how such decisions can reveal the artists’ viewpoints and also influence the viewers’ understanding of the sitters’ identity. </li><li>Use the museum’s collection as a gateway to investigating and exploring of the visualization of past, present, and future</li></ul><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Faith Ringgold, Fred T. Korematsu, Leonora O'Reilly, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Self-Portrait, Textile Art, Story Quilt, Activism, Japanese Incarceration, Topaz, Korematsu v. United States, Suffrage, Wallace Morgan, Newspaper Sketch, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Music, Choir, Photography, Cabinet Card, Past, Present, Future</p>
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Nicole Vance
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America's Presidents
<p>This Learning Lab collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student program, America's Presidents.</p>
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<p>The America’s Presidents student program focuses on the idea of what we can learn about presidents and their legacies from how they are portrayed in their portraits, on what it means to look “presidential” in a portrait, and on how the portrayal of presidents has changed over time.</p>
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<p>After completing the program, students will be better able to:<br>● Identify key components of a portrait and analyze how these components fit into the way the sitter is defined/remembered.<br>● Compare and contrast what different portraits reflect about how each president is portrayed and remembered.<br>● Identify American presidents and analyze their contributions to U.S. History.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Portraiture and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)
<p>This Learning Lab Collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student program, Portraiture and STEAM.</p>
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<p>Students will explore the ways portraiture can be a springboard to discuss STEAM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). By analyzing portraits, students will consider the sitters’ stories and recognize their contributions to the various STEAM fields. During the program, there will be opportunities to examine a broad range of STEAM topics to allow for classroom connections and emphasis on relevance. </p>
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<p>After completing the program, students will be better able to:</p>
<ul><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what one can learn about the sitter through these components.</li><li>Identify and analyze the contributions that sitters made in their STEAM fields of expertise.</li><li>Use the museum’s collection and portraiture as a springboard to exploring a variety of STEAM concepts.</li></ul>
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Nicole Vance
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Portrait Conversations
<p>This Learning Lab Collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student program Portrait Conversations.</p>
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<p>Through this discussion based program students will compare and contrast visual elements in portraits across different historical eras, paying particular attention to differences in style and media and to the variety of historical contributions represented. Students will read portraiture by identifying and analyzing the elements of portrayal to learn about the biography of the sitter.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Dynamic Figures: Then and Now
<p>This Learning Lab Collection complements the National Portrait Gallery's DCPS third grade student program series, Dynamic Figures: Then and Now <br></p>
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<p>The Dynamic Figures: Then and Now series utilizes portraiture to create cross curricular connections. During the academic year, DCPS third grade classes will have the opportunity to experience the National Portrait Gallery for three unique visits during the fall, winter, and spring. Whether a third grade class attends one, two or all three sessions, students will be exposed to the power of portraiture at varying degrees. This program aligns directly with learning goals for the third grade. Through interactive discussions as well as sketching, writing, and kinetic activities, students will read, solve problems, compare and contrast portraits across the collection. Students will learn how to “read” a portrait and recognize the value of portraiture in an array of settings and circumstances. </p>
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<p>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to:</p>
<ul><li>Identify important Americans and analyze their contributions to U.S. History</li><li>Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components</li></ul>
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Nicole Vance
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Visual-EYES-ing a Portrait of a Graduate
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>After completing this lesson, students will be better able to:<br></p>
<ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Utilize critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and citizenship skills.</li></ul>
<p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/teachers/school-groups">Schedule</a> a virtual Visual-EYES-ing a Portrait of a Graduate student program with National Portrait Gallery educators.</p>
<p>#NPGteach #FCPS</p><p>Keywords: Portraits, Attributes, Communicator, Collaborator, Ethical, Global Citizenship, Creative, Critical Thinking, Goal Directed, Resilient Individual, Significant Americans, FCPS, Sixth Grade</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Michelle Obama: Young Portrait Explorers
<p>Learn how First Lady Michelle Obama helped her community. Then design a self-portrait that shows how you help your community.</p>
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Nicole Vance
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Open Studio with the National Portrait Gallery
<p>The National Portrait Gallery is bringing its weekly art workshops to your home via YouTube! Each Friday, we will post a video with a new activity or technique. Grab a family member or your roommates, or make a virtual date with a friend, and get creative with artist Jill Galloway. Artists of all ages and skill levels will enjoy creating art inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.</p>
<p>Join us for new videos Fridays at 11:00am EST on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/smithsoniannpg" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/smithsoniannpg&source=gmail&ust=1605886355234000&usg=AOvVaw01p62fkn0GK_K4Vt581Wsl">YouTube@smithsoniannpg</a></p>
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<p>Keywords: Studio Art, Painting, Collage, Drawing, Mixed Media, Portraits, Figure Drawing, Art Instruction, Guided Art Activities, Sculpture, </p><p><br></p>
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