NEH Gives Art to Educators
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The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bruce Cole, will be in town tomorrow to celebrate a new program called “Picturing America.” Schools and libraries that apply to the NEH receive high-quality reproductions of 40 works of art by American painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects, along with a teacher’s resource guide to help educators incorporate the artwork into lessons about American history and culture.
The works range from paintings like Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” and John Singleton Copley’s “Paul Revere” to images of Native American baskets and American folk quilts to works by 20th-century artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Norman Rockwell, and Dorothea Lange. The set of posters and the teachers’ guides will go to 1,400 schools in New York City in the fall as part of the first cycle of the program.
Mr. Cole will speak to an invited audience of supporters of art and education at the SoHo offices of the publisher Scholastic.
