<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, portraits are used entry point to teach about citizens and residents of the United States. 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.</p> <p>This collection contains three lessons that highlight the many people, ideas, and cultures of the United States: "Reading Portraiture:</p> <p>Same, Different, Connect, Engage," "Engaging History: Expanding Democracy," and "Connections to the Present: Reading Election Posters."</p> <p>Review Reading Portraiture 101 before beginning the lessons.</p> <p>#NPGteach #EducatingForDemocracy</p>

<p>This collection highlights the individuals who shaped the cultural, economic, political, and social developments of the United States from 1491 to today. The selected sitters compliment the curriculum for the College Board's <a href="https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-history">Advanced Placement United States History Course</a>. Open the paperclips on each portrait to find accompanying multiple-choice questions for test prep.<br></p> <p>This collection was created in partnership between the National Portrait Gallery and Teacher Advisory Board Member and history teacher Christopher Evans.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p><br></p>

<p>Explore portraits from <em>The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today </em>at the National Portrait Gallery in this Learning Lab collection.</p> <p><em></em><em>The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today</em> presents 42 portraits selected through an open call that garnered more than 2,700 entries from artists working across the United States and Puerto Rico. The artists responded with works that engage contemporary society, many providing new insights into the unprecedented reality we have experienced in the time surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <p>The selected finalists create artworks in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, textiles, video, and performance. They demonstrate how capacious and changing the genre of portraiture can be, and illuminate the genre's power to make visible a multitude of life experiences.<br></p> <p>To best view the video and performance pieces, visit the <em>The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today</em><em>'s </em><a href="https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2022-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/?lang=eng">website</a>.</p> <p>Every three years, the National Portrait Gallery invites both emerging and established artists working in the U.S. to submit a recent portrait to the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Around fifty works are then selected by expert jurors who, on average, review more than 2,500 entries. The competition has evolved since its inception in 2006 to include performance art and time-based media alongside painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture.</p> <p>As part of its deep commitment to supporting contemporary artists working in portraiture, the National Portrait Gallery looks to the Outwin to share the genre’s remarkable relevance and strengthen the visual representation of American history. Each iteration of the competition gauges portraiture’s progression while underscoring the potential of one person to make an impact.</p> <p>The Outwin is made possible through the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment, established by Virginia Outwin Boochever (1920–2005), who served as a docent for the National Portrait Gallery for nearly two decades. Mrs. Boochever’s vision for the Outwin is now carried out by her children.</p> <p>Educators, to explore these portraits with your students through close looking and visible thinking routines, see the resources at the end of this collection for ideas.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p>

<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> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p><br></p>

<p>This collection focuses on a life-size, hand-cut silhouette representing Flora (1777–1815), a woman who was enslaved in Connecticut, and the bill of sale that transferred her ownership on December 13, 1796, when she was nineteen years old. Her life story invites us to consider the period from the American Revolution to the close of the War of 1812 from a rarely considered perspective—that of an enslaved woman. Flora is emblematic of vast numbers of enslaved women whose likenesses and histories have gone unrecorded.</p> <p>Her silhouette was traced at life-size directly from her cast shadow, lending a tangible sense of human presence to her portrait. But who made it? And for what purpose? We will explore these questions through consideration of the few facts known about Flora's life; the regional differences that distinguished the experiences of enslaved women in the North and in the South; the social conventions of silhouette-making; and the history of representing African American women in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century American portraiture.</p> <p>This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p>

<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> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p>#BecauseOfHerStory</p>

<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> <p>#NPGteach</p>

<p>Learn how Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.</p><p></p><p>#NPGteach</p><p></p><p>Keywords: Wilma Rudolph, athlete, Olympics, Finish Line, Spectators, Medals</p>

<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> <p>#NPGteach</p>