Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610-3380)
Daniel Greene (Project Director: October 2008 to March 2011)
AP-50003-09
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects
Education Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$317,849 (approved)
$317,849 (awarded)
Grant period:
4/1/2009 – 9/30/2010
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"Interpreting the American Landscape" -- Picturing America School Collaboration Project Conferences
Two-day conferences in October 2009 and April 2010, for fifty-four educators each, to strengthen the use of Picturing America images in the teaching of core subjects, primarily in high schools. (Ashbrook)
The Newberry Library proposes to host two Picturing America School Collaboration Project Conferences, which will provide one hundred and eight teachers with access to each other; to experts in art history, history, literature, and geography; and to Chicago's rich local resources in American art. Our conferences will take "Interpreting the American Landscape" as a capacious and inclusive organizing theme. Our conference sessions will explore the role of landscape imagery in shaping national identity, tracing the shift from a nineteenth-century emphasis on visions of pristine wilderness and rural landscapes to the twentieth-century's urban and industrial scenery. The conferences will be held at the Newberry Library on October 23-24, 2009, and April 16-17, 2010. The nationwide target audience will be secondary-level history, language arts, and art teachers whose schools already have received the Picturing America portfolio.
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