Bring the nation’s art to your school library media center!

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring Picturing America, an initiative to “bring iconic American art into public and private schools, libraries, and communities.” Participants will receive 40 high-quality reproductions of masterpieces created by a wide range of American artists — from early American Indians and colonial American artists to 20th-century architects, painters, and photographers. These include works from John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Hart Benson, Dorothea Lange, N.C. Wyeth, John James Audubon, Mary Cassatt, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others. Teaching resources, which include essays and teaching activities for each of the forty images in the series, can be found on the website.

Schools and libraries may apply to be a part of this program by applying online between January 7 to April 15, 2008.