DPI’s Teaching NC Arts Project (Story)

DPI's Teaching NC Artists Project

What is the Teaching NC Arts Project? 

The North Carolina Museum of Art worked with the NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Arts Education team and the NC Arts Council on an incredible resource, Teaching NC Arts Project, linking a curated selection of NC artists who represent the population of NC with instructional strategies and resources. 

Why teach about NC Artists?

The NC Visual Art Cultural Relevancy Standards call for teaching NC Art, Artists, and the way the culture has been affected by the arts in grades 4 and 8: 

  • 4.CX.1.1 – Understand how the visual arts have affected, and are reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of North Carolina.
  • 8.CX.1.1 – Understand the role of visual arts in North Carolina and the United States in relation to history and geography.

The Teaching NC Arts Project provides multiple entry points to allow educators to find resources by art media/ category, geographic region, or time period. Several artists featured in the Teaching NC Arts Projects are featured on NCMALearn. Explore the resources on the left and works of art in the image gallery below.

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Artists in the Teaching NC Artists Project in NCMA's Collection

A painting of a Black woman with short brown hair, set against an orange background. She is bowing her head and wearing a black jacket and a light blue scarf.

three self-portraits of the artist in different poses while thinking

Gyre by Thomas Sayre

A metal sculpture on a grassy hillside, with tall trees and a blue sky in the background. The sculpture has a thick pole that is painted red, white, and blue, with a star design. There are multiple metal pinwheels and other movable parts attached to the top of the pole.

A collage painting of a jazz band walking and playing instruments on a street in New Orleans

The Gulf Stream (After Winslow Homer) by Stacy Lynn Waddell

Beth Lipman Bride Gallery View

Mixed media artwork with red and yellow fabric and a quilt bordered by multicolored printed images

bob Trotman Girl 2002 Sculpture

Stack, by Peter Oakley

Evans The Tree of Life

Claude Howell Ocracoke Harbor 1964 Painting

A landscape painting of a canyon vista at sunset or sunrise

A painting of Black men, women, and children coming out of a shallow body of water. The people are framed by two monumental Black women holding a hair pick.

Burk Uzzle Congregation Ladies

Elizabeth Matheson photograph Edenton 1982

A piece of gray cloth with an almost symmetrical black inkblot design in the middle.

Grade level
4th Grade, 8th Grade
Subject Areas
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Concepts
Change, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Culture, Cycle, Dance, Environment, Family, Force, Function, Identity, Impact, Interdependence, Investigation, Light, Meaning, Movement, Observation, Order, Part/Whole, Perception, Perspective, Persuasion, Place, Play, Power, Problem Solving, Reflection, Ritual, Storytelling, Subjectivity, Survival, Technology, Time, Variation, Work