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The Betye Saar Art Box
Celebrate Betye Saar's artistic legacy and learn more about her work as you make art inspired by five of her artworks. Available in English and Spanish.
Object Story: Stitching Statements and Sentiments
Explore quilt patterns that reflect women’s perspectives on the world and current events.
Object Story: Landscape with Riding and Walking Figures, a River, and a Village (Overmantel)
Painting made to hang over a mantle depicting various people along a pathway.
Overview: Out of Many, One?
Americans have long created an identity based on distinct principles and values that define the country. This unit explores the tensions between being an individual and being part of a group or nation and provides insight into what it means to be an individual in America, today and centuries ago.
Object Story: African American Quilting
Contemporary African American quilt traditions and their transformation into new artforms.
Activity: Judgement and Group Belonging
Consider what influences group behavior and the formation of in-groups and out-groups.
Activity: Twenty-First Century Object
Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.
Object Story: A Short History of Lighting
Examine a range of lighting implements from candles and rushlights to oil burning lamps.
Create a Herbarium Specimen
Preserve information about a particular plant for future generations.
Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!
Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?