<p>Meet the Arab Americans who shaped the history, development, and culture of the United States of America from 1900-present. Use this collection to celebrate Arab American Heritage Month and embrace Arab American voices in your classroom year-round!</p> <p>#NPGteach</p>

<p>In this lesson, students will use close-looking to learn more about Experimental Physicist, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and discuss the contributions of women to science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) fields. </p> <p>This lesson plan was written by NPG Gallery Educator, Erin Koester-Tussell.</p>

<p>In this collection, students will analyze the importance of representation, reflect on the role of discrimination in the mid-20th century and reflect on the role of protest in American citizenship. </p> <p>This lesson plan was written by NPG Teen Programs Specialist, Sahtiya H. Hammell.</p>

<p>In this collection students will learn how to research and document their communities through photographs and oral histories. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts of their own communities and develop important research, communication, and critical thinking skills.</p> <p>This collection, was created project collaborators from the following Smithsonian museums: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Elizabeth Dale-Deines), National Museum of American History (Orlando Serrano, Eden Cho), and National Portrait Gallery, (Briana Zavadil White, Jocelyn Kho).</p>

<p>In this Learning Lab collection, portraits of Michelle Obama, Leonard Crow Dog, and Roger Shimomura are used as an entry point to teach about contemporary debates and possibilities. Using <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/">Educating for American Democracy</a>'s roadmap as a guide, this lesson centers on the theme  <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/7themes/contemporary-debates-possibilities/">A People with Contemporary Debates & Possibilities</a>. Students will examine not only the portrait subjects but will also gain insight into how their biography fits into American democracy.<br></p> <p>This collection contains three lessons that highlight activists: "Reading Portraiture: See – Feel - Wonder - Connectx2," "Engaging History: Perspectives on the American Indian Movement," and "Connections to the Present: Identity and Patriotism" with the last lesson containing an art \making prompt for Educating for American Democracy's Design Challenge: <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/k-12-student-design-challenge-awards/#civic-honesty">Civic Honesty, Reflective Patriotism</a></p> <p>Review <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/reading-portraiture-101/6VeUfzDnKE87HIOP">Reading Portraiture 101 </a>before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy<br></p>

<p>In this Learning Lab collection, portrait of individuals in the executive branch and armed forces are used as entry points to teach about the United States in a global context. Through close looking students will investigate key historical events in international affars and build and understanding of the principles, values, and laws at stake in debates about America’s role in the world.</p> <p>This collection contains three lessons: "Reading Portraiture: Exploring Civic Points of View with Art," "Engaging History: Debates on the Treaty of Versailles," and "Connections to the Present: Faces of the Armed Forces."<br></p> <p>Review Reading Portraiture 101 before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy</p>

<p>In this Learning Lab collection, group portraits are used an entry points to teach about the the constitution, amendments, and branches of government. Throughout this collection, students will examine not only the portrait subjects but will also gain insight into the larger historical time period in which the subjects lived and how they made change in American government.<br></p> <p>This collection contains three lessons that highlight activists: "Reading Portraiture: Values, Identities, Actions," "Engaging History: Picturing Amendments," and "Connections to the Present: Three Branches of Government."</p> <p>Review Reading Portraiture 101 before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy</p>

<p>In this Learning Lab collection, portraits from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries are used an entry points to teach about the importance of place in civics. Throughout this collection, students will examine not only the portrait subjects but will also gain insight into the larger historical time period in which the subjects lived and how they made change in their communities and the United States. <br></p> <p>This collection contains three lessons that highlight activists: "Reading Portraiture: Lenses for Dialogue," "Engaging History: The Return to Atzlán," and "Connections to the Present: Environments of Change."</p> <p>Review Reading Portraiture 101 before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy</p>

<p>In this Learning Lab collection, portrait photography of twentieth-century activists<em> </em>is used as an entry point to teach about the civic participation. Using <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/">Educating for American Democracy</a>'s roadmap as a guide, this lesson centers on the theme <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/the-roadmap/7themes/">Civic Participation</a>. . Students will examine not only the portrait subjects--including Ona Kingbird, John Lewis, and Sal Castro--but will also gain insight into the larger historical time period in which the subjects lived and how they located agency, made change, and sustained ideals of American democracy.</p> <p>This collection contains three lessons that highlight activists: "Reading Portraiture: See – Think – Me - We," "Engaging History: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," and "Connections to the Present: Students in Action" with the last lesson containing an artmaking prompt for Educating for American Democracy's Design Challenge: <a href="https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/the-roadmap/5designchallenges/">Motivating Agency, Sustaining the Republic</a></p> <p>Review <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/reading-portraiture-101/6VeUfzDnKE87HIOP">Reading Portraiture 101 </a>before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy</p> <p></p>

<p>In this lesson, students will explore editorial cartoons as portraits and how the satirical art of cartoonists is reflective of their perspectives and time in American history. By comparing two National Portrait Gallery collection portraits, (<a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.72.2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Richard Nixon</em></a> by Norman Rockwell, <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.78.TC178?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dwatergate%252Bbreaks%252Bwide%252Bopen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Watergate Breaks Wide Open</em></a> by Jack Davis) students will discover similarities and differences in how political figures are portrayed. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to the perspectives of art historians and contemporary editorial cartoonists and explore the applications of satirical art past and present. </p> <p>This lesson plan was written by NPG Teacher Advisory Board Member Christoper Evans ALM, M.ED, who works as a Social Studies Teacher at Basha High School in Chandler, AZ.<br></p> <p></p>

<p>Explore portraits from "Kinship" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in this Learning Lab collection.</p> <p>"Kinship" features the work of eight contemporary artists who illuminate the complexities of our closest interpersonal relationships through portraiture. Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ruth Leonela Buentello, Jess T. Dugan, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jessica Todd Harper, Thomas Holton, Sedrick Huckaby, and Anna Tsouhlarakis poignantly visualize the nuances of this theme within and outside of family units. Through painting, photography, sculpture, and performance, the artists reveal how kinship, by its very nature, embraces contradictions. They also highlight the crucial role that storytelling and memories have in connecting different generations, encompassing both the living and the dead.</p> <p>When we started working on this project in 2018, there was no way we could have predicted that its core concepts were about to be tested on a global scale. The separation and overwhelming loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the renewed calls for social and environmental justice, and recent armed conflicts have deepened the resonance of the exhibition’s themes. Vulnerability, intimacy, privacy, community, familiarity, and recognition have all been questioned and realigned, underscoring how portraiture provides a shared space for empathy and understanding.</p> <p>Kinship <em>is the latest in the museum’s </em>Portraiture Now<em> series, which was established in 2006 to highlight contemporary artists whose work focuses on portraiture or figurative art.</em></p> <p><em>...<br></em></p> <p><em>Parentescos presenta a ocho artistas contemporáneos que abordan a través del retrato las complejidades de nuestras relaciones interpersonales más estrechas. Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ruth Leonela Buentello, Jess T. Dugan, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jessica Todd Harper, Thomas Holton, Sedrick Huckaby y Anna Tsouhlarakis visualizan con emotividad los matices de este tema dentro y fuera de las unidades familiares. En pintura, fotografía, escultura o performance, los artistas revelan que el sentido de parentesco —sea por afecto, afinidad o sangre— acoge contradicciones por su propia naturaleza. Asimismo destacan el rol crucial de los relatos y recuerdos en cuanto conectan a las generaciones, a los vivos y los muertos.<br><br>Al iniciar este proyecto en 2018, no anticipamos que sus conceptos medulares pronto serían puestos a prueba a escala global. La separación y la abrumadora pérdida causadas por la pandemia de COVID-19, el renovado reclamo de justicia social y ambiental y los recientes conflictos armados han exaltado la resonancia de los temas de esta exposición. Las nociones de vulnerabilidad, intimidad, privacidad, comunidad, familiaridad y reconocimiento han sido todas cuestionadas y reajustadas, poniendo de relieve el retrato como espacio compartido de empatía y comprensión.<br></em></p> <p><em><br></em></p>

<p>This Learning Lab collection complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, <em>Portraiture and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).</em></p> <p>The <em>Portraiture and Social Emotional Learning (SEL)</em> student program approaches portraiture with a social-emotional lens. Students will consider how reading portraiture can lend itself to exploring social-emotional qualities such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.  This collection strives to provide opportunities to explore emotions and values in the context of portraiture.<br></p> <p><strong>Curriculum Connections: </strong>This lesson plan is suitable for students in grades 4-12 in multidisciplinary classes.<br></p> <p><strong>Objectives:</strong> After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: </p> <ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Investigate how these components reveal the viewpoints (of artist, sitter, and viewer) represented through the depiction of the sitters.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Identify social emotional qualities and analyze the connections that can be made to portraiture.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Utilize the museum’s collection and portraiture as a springboard to explore the range of social emotional qualities that include self-awareness, self- management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.</p></li></ul> <p></p> <p>#NPGteach<br></p> <p></p>