Free American Culture and Art for the Chicago Public Schools
As a Social Studies nerd, I’m very happy to hear that every library in the Chicago Public Schools is going to get a free set of “Picturing America” from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The set includes forty double-sided 24″ x 36″ posters featuring some of the most significant works of art from American artists. There is also a teachers resource book that includes cross-curricular lesson ideas.
As someone who used to prep and teach classroom lessons, I know that getting anything close to one of these prints set as a lesson resource would be practically next to impossible. It’s heartening to think that teachers this year will be able to just check them out from their school’s librarian.