<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>

<p>Learn about symbols in art and explore the symbolism in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work.</p> <p><br>#NPGteach </p>

<p>Learn about the first president of the United States, George Washington.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> George Washington, President, Executive Branch, Revolutionary War</p>

<p>Learn about civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta and César Chávez and the Aztec symbolism in their portrait.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p>

<p>Learn about artist Roger Shimomura and how he uses his paintings to express his identity (what makes someone unique).</p> <p>Keywords: Roger Shimomura, George Washington, Japanese American, Identity</p><p>#NPGteach</p>

<p>Learn about the four women justices who have served on the Supreme Court (the highest or most important court of law in the United States).</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p>Keywords: Supreme Court, Women, Justices, Judges, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor</p>

<p>Introducing… a new kind of story time! Each week we shine a light on some of this country's lesser-known history makers and their portraits. With a Portrait Gallery educator, children will learn more about art, hear the stories behind the portraits, and even learn some new vocabulary. Select story times will be in Spanish. For children ages 3 and up and their families.<br></p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p>Keywords: Biography, Story, Famous Americans, Vocabulary, Portraits, Art, Reading Art, Activists, Scientists, Cultural Icons, </p>

<p>Learn about Sequoyah (c. 1770 – 1843), creator of the Cherokee syllabary (symbols used like an alphabet), and practice writing skills.</p> <p></p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p></p> <p>Keywords: Sequoyah, Cherokee, Writing, Syllable</p>

<p>Learn how Dolley Madison shaped the role of first lady of the United States (the wife of a U.S. president) by serving as a trusted friend and hostess (someone who entertains people) to important guests at the White House.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Dolley Madison, First Lady, White House</p>

<p>Explore portraits from "Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in this Learning Lab collection.<br></p> <p>Hung Liu (1948–2021) was a contemporary Chinese-born American artist, whose multilayered paintings established new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often sourcing her subjects from photographs, Liu elevated overlooked individuals by amplifying the stories of those who have historically been invisible or unheard. Having lived through war, political revolution, exile, and displacement, she offered a complex picture of an Asian Pacific American experience. Her portraits speak powerfully to those seeking a better life, in the United States and elsewhere. <em>Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands</em> will be first major exhibition of the artist's work on the East Coast. This is also the first time that a museum will focus on Liu’s portraiture.</p> <p><em>The story of America as a destination for the homeless and hungry of the world is not only a myth. It is a story of desperation, of sadness, of uncertainty, of leaving your home. It is also a story of determination, and—more than anything—of hope.</em></p> <p>— Hung Liu, 2017</p> <p><em></em>"Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands" will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery August 27, 2021, through May 30, 2022</p> <p>Keywords: Hung Liu, Chinese-American, AAPI, Cultural Revolution, China, Portraits, Portraiture, Family, Mother, Father, Daughter, Son, Gender, Refugees, Immigration, Identification, Identity, Displacement, War, Asian Pacific American, Painting, Photography, Memory, Migration, Dorothea Lange, Carrie Mae Weems</p>

<p>This portrait timeline spotlights individuals who shaped the history, development, and culture of the United States of America between the years 1980 and today.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p>Keywords: Globalization, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s,</p>

<p>This portrait timeline spotlights individuals who shaped the history, development, and culture of the United States of America between the years 1927 and 1945.</p> <p>#NPGteach</p> <p>Keywords: Great Depression, New Deal, Federal Art Project, Hollywood Cinema, World War II, Incarceration of Japanese Americans, internment camps</p>