Zoom! Representing Ourselves Online

Zoom! Representing Ourselves Online

Many of us are now meeting, playing, and learning virtually. This activity will help you identify some of your important folk groups and traditional knowledge. You will then create a virtual background that may be used on Zoom or other meeting platforms as a way to...
Seasonal Round Lesson Plan

Seasonal Round Lesson Plan

THE SEASONAL ROUND For New Year, we would cook cabbage. Some people would cook black-eyed peas. That way, you would always have money for the year. And we had to have our egg nog. That was one tradition waiting for the New Year to come in. And when the New Year would...
Exploring Portraits, Dress, and Identity in Asian Art

Exploring Portraits, Dress, and Identity in Asian Art

Joanna Pecore Asian Arts & Culture Center, Towson University, Towson, Maryland Discovery Questions What can art objects from distant times and places express about the identity of the people and the cultures depicted in them? How would students represent group...