- $220,960
'Democratic Vistas': Civic Life, History and American Art
Recipient: Zeiger, Susan (Watertown, MA 02472 USA) in affiliation with Primary Source
Goal: Two conferences of two days each in summer 2009 for up to 100 educators, to strengthen the use of Picturing America images in the teaching of core subjects in the school curriculum.
Description: Up to 100 educators from diverse geographic regions will take part in two, two-day conferences in Boston on the democratic tradition in American art and engage in follow-up activities to apply the knowledge they gain with the support of project staff and scholars. The major goals of the project are: (1)To deepen the knowledge, capacity and confidence of educators to teach about important works of art as an expression of the inclusive democratic tradition in America; (2)To cultivate an understanding of how to incorporate a diverse array of artworks across core K-12 subjects; (3)To model to participating educators the ways in which local art resources inform and enrich classroom studies; and (4) To generate a lasting, on-line resource, free for use by the public, to disseminate the highlights of the conferences, as well as the curriculum projects they generate, to all interested educators.
Grant: 196101 / AP-50012-09, Category: American Studies, Division: Education Programs, Program: Picturing America School Collaboration Projects, Year Awarded: 2009 - $145,020
African Americans and the Making of America, 1650-2000
Recipient: Roelofs, Anna (Watertown, MA 02472 USA) in affiliation with Primary Source
Goal: A four-week institute for 25 school teachers relating the experiences of Africans to the institutions and cultural expressions they encountered and created in the Americas.
Grant: 165478 / ES-50031-03, Category: Interdisciplinary, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2003 - $120,000
Teaching Resources on African American Intellectual History and Democratic Leadership
Recipient: Roelofs, Anna (Watertown, MA 02472 USA) in affiliation with Primary Source
Goal: To support the preparation of five curriculum sourcebooks for teaching about African American intellectual history from 1619-1910.
Grant: 141880 / ED-21132-98, Category: Afro-American Studies, Division: Education Programs, Program: Education Development and Demonstration, Year Awarded: 1998 - Endowment for the humanities grants to institution Primary Source; items 1-3 of 3 with a total funding of $485,980.