American Art Resources Grants Available To Schools

Picturing America is a pilot project of the We the People program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), conducted in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office. The goals of Picturing America are to promote the teaching, study and understanding of American art and history in K-12 schools, and to facilitate interdisciplinary partnerships between school library media specialists, art teachers, classroom instructors, and other educators.

Picturing America will provide 500 public and private schools with a collection of 20 double-sided, laminated posters (24" x 36") depicting works of American art, related reading lists, and a 100-page resource booklet with information about the paintings, sculpture, architecture, and crafts reproduced. Educators, including school librarians, are invited to apply online from January 8 through March 19, 2007. Applications and additional information is available at http://publicprograms.ala.org/picturingamerica/index.html.

Last updated on 2/26/2007