Education Search

Search results

18 results found. Reset Search

Lithograph of a black woman wearing a bandana featuring the word LIBERATION as bright flames shoot out of it on a dark blue and purple background.

Activity: Art and Activism

Make your own work of art inspired by Betye Saar's work, Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time.

Obra de arte en técnica mixta que incluye una tabla de planchar antigua con un barco de esclavos representado en ella. Encima hay una plancha antigua, encadenada a la tabla de planchar. Detrás cuelga una sábana blanca sujeta por pinzas de madera y cuerda.

Actividad: Confrontando el racismo

Crea tu propia obra de arte inspirada en la obra de Betye Saar, I'll Bend But I Will Not Break (Me doblaré pero no me romperé).

Mixed media artwork including a vintage ironing board with a slave ship depicted on it. An old-fashioned flat iron is on top of it, chained to the ironing board. A white bedsheet hangs behind it all held by wood clothespins and rope.

Activity: Confronting Racism

Make your own piece of art inspired by Betye Saar's work, I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break.

Painting of an outdoor setting with pond and trees, populated with characters on horseback and on foot along a path in the foreground and additional figures interspersed in the background.

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.

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.