The Picturing America Project
From John Mark's Wiki
Picturing America is a set of American art posters and teaching materials provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The English Language Office in Moscow donated a set of these materials to Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg in 2011.
During the spring semester of 2011, several students of the university participated in a research project for which they selected a specific work of art, conducted research and prepared an essay on the results of their work. They also participated in a presentation on May 27, 2011, in which they shared their findings and reflections with visitors in a gallery-like atmosphere.
Videos of their presentations and the text of their essays can be found below.
Looking down Yosemite Valley, California by Albert Bierstadt (Irana Alibekova and Daria Sokolnitskaya)
Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear (Irina Chupina and Svetlana Vorobyova)
Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright (Anna Matevosyan and Diana Mirzaalieva)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood (Anastasia Vasilyeva and Katya Pakhalova)
Autumn landscape – The River of Life by L. C. Tiffany (Alina Skulkina and Oksana Storozhenko)
American Flamingo by John James Audubon (Kate Teplova and Natasha Orekhova)
Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965 by James Karales (Ksenia Gaevskaya and Anna Kruglova)
Chrysler Building, New York City, 1930 by William Van Alen (Vicky Kosareva and Olga Dunaeva)
Allies Day, May 1917 by Childe Hassam (Olga Medvedeva)
Presentation Videos
