Picturing America - NJN/State of the Arts

Picturing America is the ambitious brainchild of Bruce Cole (chair, National Endowment for the Humanities 2001- 2009). Through the largest NEH grant program ever, more than 76,000 schools, public libraries, and Head Start centers nationwide now own Picturing America: a set of 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great American art, accompanied by an informative teachers resource book. As Cole relates to State of the Arts producer Susan Wallner, the goal of Picturing America is to help tell the story of America through great art, to as many people as possible. The Picturing America portfolio includes carefully selected images ranging from early American Indian artists to painters Mary Cassatt and Thomas Hart Benton; from photographers Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to architects Frank Lloyd Wright and William Van Alen.

In this State of the Arts story, Wallner visits different classes throughout New Jersey to see how Picturing America is being used, including Dover High School, Larchmont Elementary, Greater Newark Charter School and Little Angels Head Start.

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[Storiestosee]

Pictures are so powerful... one of the best ways of helping kids to really think about history, because it makes it seem real.

[bighead744]

@DthSoldier correction GNCS RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!

[DthSoldier]

ms. daley RULES!!!!!!!!!!!