This site was created to teach 6th grade art students about ancient Greek culture. It contains resources, activities, and lessons that meet Idaho State standards for Art.
A collaborative hands-on exercise that has application to multiple disciplines.
Face to face with the Missouri voters. George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician, 1849, oil on canvas, 51.8 x 61cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). Speakers: Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Steven Zucker A Seeing America video. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
Politics and humanity in 1970s New York. Faith Ringgold, Ben, c. 1978, soft sculpture/mixed media, 99.1 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm (Toledo Museum of Art, ©Faith Ringgold) speakers: Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Smarthistory. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
Marisol Escobar, The Party, 1965-66, fifteen freestanding, life-size figures and three wall panels, with painted and carved wood, mirrors, plastic, television set, clothes, shoes, glasses, and other accessories, variable dimensions (Toledo Museum of Art, © artist’s estate) speakers: Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
This outfit was likely made for a British lieutenant and gifted to him in a ritual exchange to show mutual respect. Anishinaabe outfit, c. 1790, collected by Lieutenant Andrew Foster, Fort Michilimackinac (British), Michigan, Birchbark, cotton, linen, wool, feathers, silk, silver brooches, porcupine quills, horsehair, hide, sinew; the moccasins were like made by the Huron–Wendat people (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution) Speakers: Dr. David Penney, Associate Director for Museum Scholarship, Exhibitions, and Public Engagement, National Museum of the American Indian and Dr. Steven Zucker A Seeing America video. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
Feathered headdress, Aztec, reproduction (National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City) Original: Feathered headdress, Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century, quetzal, cotinga, roseate spoonbill, piaya feathers; wood, fibers, amate paper, cotton, gold, gilded brass (World Museum, Vienna). The headdress is also called the “Penacho of Moctezuma II.” “Moctezuma II’s Headdress” was first mentioned in a European inventory in 1596, when it was acquired by Austrian Archduke Ferdinand II von Tyrol. It was listed there as “a Moorish hat.” It was likely an object sent from Mesoamerica to Europe by Hernan Cortes, but it is unknown whether it actually belonged to Moctezuma II himself. A conversation with Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral for Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar, woodcut, 1919 (MoMA) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Juliana Kreinik For more: http://www.smarthistory.org/feiningers-cathedral.html. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Feline-Head Bottle, 15th-5th century B.C.E., Cupisnique, Jequetepeque Valley (possibly Tembladera), Peru, ceramic and post-fired paint, 32.4 x 20.5 x 13.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Speakers: Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
To learn about other great moments in modern art, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945 or Pigment to Pixel: Color in Modern and Contemporary Art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Final Project prompt and anti-racists learning modules designed to empower and encourage students to critically re-think the traditional Western Art History cannon.
Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955, oil on linen, 203.2 × 203.2 cm (Art Institute of Chicago 1958.193, ©The Estate of Joan Mitchell), a Seeing America video. Speakers: Sarah Alvarez, Director of School Programs, Art Institute of Chicago, Beth Harris, and Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
Native American Tribes
Native American Tribes
This art history video discussion examines this work by a follower of Bernardo Daddi "The Aldobrandini Triptych", tempera on panel, ca. 1336 (Portland Art Museum).
Apollodorus of Damascus, The Forum of Trajan, dedicated 112 C.E.., Rome. A conversation with Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
A conversation at the American Museum of Natural History between Dr. Laurel Kendall, Curator, Asian Ethnographic Collections and Dr. Monique Scott, Assistant Director of Cultural Education in front of four Buddhist sculptures: Seated Gautama Buddha, 18th Century, cast brass, gilt (Thailand) Gandharan Seated Buddha with Double Halo, attributed to the 3rd Century, green-gray schist (Pakistan) Jizo, Kshitigarbha, Dhyani-Bodhisattao, 19th Century, wood, gold (Japan) Budai (Ho t'ai)/Maitreya, The Laughing Buddha, c. 1900, metal (China). Produced by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker for Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, c. 1438-47, fresco, 230 x 321 cm (Convent of San Marco, Florence). Speakers: Dr Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Fra Angelico, The Annunciation and Life of the Virgin (in the predella), c. 1426, tempera on wood, 194 x 194 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
The Annunciation is described in the Gospel According to Luke 1:26 - 38.
Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child, c. 1440, tempera on panel, 79 x 51.1 cm / 31-1/8 x 20-1/8 inches (National Gallery of Art, Washington) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker . Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.