Format
Volunteer videoconference presenters show American artworks from the museum’s collection using PowerPoint slides. Through inquiry-based questions and discussion, presenters engage with participants as they explore artworks together.
Objectives
After participation in this videoconference, your students will be better able to:
• Compare and contrast the perspectives of Asian American artists for a deeper understanding of their diverse identities and cultures;
• Recognize how works by Asian American artists communicate their unique stories, while also engaging with historical events and universal themes;
• Identify artworks that explore vibrant, distinct, and resilient Asian American communities and cultures;
• Use visual vocabulary to articulate observations and interpretations of artworks.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Videoconferences can touch on one or more of the following standards
Visual Arts
• Anchor Standard #7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
• Anchor Standard #8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
• Anchor Standard #11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Historical Thinking
• K-12.2: Draw upon the visual data presented in photographs, paintings, cartoons, and architectural drawings to clarify, illustrate, or elaborate upon information presented in the historical narrative, and appreciate and consider past historical perspectives
• K-12.3: Analyze and interpret multiple perspectives in history to compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions, and to challenge arguments of historical inevitability
• K-12.4: Obtain and interrogate historical data from a variety of sources, including library and museum collections, in order to formulate historical questions from encounters with art and other records from the past
Social Studies
• D2.His.5.3-5.: Explain connections among historical contexts and people's perspectives at the time
• D2.His.6.6-8.: Analyze how people’s perspectives influenced what information is available in the historical sources they created
• D2.His.5.9-12.: Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people’s perspectives
Social Justice
• ID.3: Recognize that people’s multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals
• ID.6: Express comfort with people who are both similar to and different from them and engage respectfully with all people
• ID.9: Respond to diversity by building empathy, respect, understanding and connection
College and Career Readiness Skills, English Language Arts/Literacy
Standards have been slightly modified to expand the definition of "text" to include artworks.
Reading
• R.1: Read closely to determine what the [artwork] says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific [visual] evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the [artwork].
• R.2: Determine central ideas or themes of a[n artwork] and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
• R.6: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a[n artwork].
• R.7: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
• R.9: Analyze how two or more [artworks] address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the [artists] take.
Speaking and Listening
• SL.1: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• SL.2: Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• SL.3: Evaluate a speaker’s [or an artist’s] point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
• SL.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.