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Activity: Beauty in Everyday Objects

Create a definition of art and beauty using everyday objects.

Activity: Classroom Still Life

Practice creating a still life using characteristics of the genre.

Activity: Portrait Investigations

Investigate the person in a portrait using clues and information from primary sources, images, and through research.

Activity: Write a Museum Label

Practice writing a museum label for an object or artwork.

Activity: Think like a Collector

Examine a museum collection for themes and commonalities and consider what the collection represents about a community.

Activity: Curating a Classroom Museum

Create a classroom museum about American history and culture.

Activity: Mahogany, Walnut, or Journeyman's Price?

Examine the ways economic factors influence decision making.

Brown wooden box foot-warmer with perforated star-shaped designs carved on its sides and top and a thin iron handle.

Object Story: Chip-carved Foot Warmer

Small carved wooden box used to hold hot coals for cold feet.

Front view of ovoid jar with handles near the top, decorated with blue pigment and incised decorations, with a flower in a checkered pot at the center and the initials “IS” below.

Object Story: Jar

Stoneware jar with unique decorations.

Painted tin document box mounted with original brass handle; decorated with red, white and yellow on three sides and the top; typical of the workshop of Elijah and Elisha North.

Object Story: Decorated Document Box

Decorated tin document box; decorated with red, white and yellow typical of the workshop of Elijah and Elisha North of Stevens Plains (now Westbrook), Maine 1806-1840.

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