August 2007 News

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

La Cumbre Junior High School Receives We the People Picturing America Grant

Last May, La Cumbre Junior High School principal Jo Ann Caines was notified by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that La Cumbre was one of 1,556 schools selected to receive a pilot We the People Picturing America grant. The materials will be sent to La Cumbre in September. The school will receive a collection of 20 double-sided, laminated posters (24" x 36") depicting works of American art, related reading lists, and a 100-page teachers resource booklet with information about the paintings, sculpture, architecture, and crafts reproduced. The materials are for use in the teaching of American history, culture, and other curriculum subjects.

According to NEH, “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 is a pilot project of the We the People program of NEH, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office.