[ABCDE] Volume 3, Issue 7 D.C. Renaissance INSIDE Art Deco Radio — All the 13 Drive 17 Rage Headlines on Amending the 18 Trial 20 Constitution April 27, 2004 © 2004 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 7 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program D.C. Renaissance In the Field KidsPost Article: “The Unboring Illustrated True Story of the ➤ http://www.soulofamerica.com/ Washington Area from 1600 to Right Now, Part 7” cityfldr2/wash15.html U Street/Shaw District Lesson: The 1920s and 1930s the Chrysler Building. More than 20 years before the Harlem were decades of development, U Street and Howard University Renaissance, the D.C. Renaissance was daring and dangers, and the D.C. were the center of a thriving taking place on U Street. Jazz singer Renaissance during which writers, African American community. Pearl Bailey gave U Street the nickname musicians and artists were a Musicians, artists and writers “the Black Broadway.” Visit history and significant part of D.C. life. joined the doctors and attorneys, see today’s renaissance taking place in Level: All beauticians and barbers, Duke Ellington’s old neighborhood. newspapers and bank of Shaw. Subjects: History, social studies, Before the Harlem Renaissance ➤ http://americanhistory.si.edu/ art, music was the D.C. Renaissance of Duke youmus/ex11fact.htm Field to Factory, National Museum of Related Activity: Language arts, Ellington, The Washingtonians, American History geography, technology Jean Toomer and Sterling Brown. If you couldn’t be there, radio Explores the movement of thousands About This Series: brought jazz, blues and new voices from the rural South to the new This is the seventh of nine parts into the American home. technology and culture of the North of KidsPost’s illustrated look at the ➤ www.phillipscollection.org history of the Washington area. Read and Discuss Each installment treats a different Phillips Gallery Give students “Q&A,” a period—European settlement, the The Phillips Gallery, opened in 1920, was reproducible that provides creation of the nation’s capital, the first private collection of modern art information about the daring and the Civil War era, the turn of the to be opened to the public for viewing. dangers of early aviation. In earlier century, up to the present. See works of 19th and 20th century guides, explorers were highlighted. French and American artists while in a These are the explorers of a more April: The D.C. Renaissance home of the period. modern age. Military aviation and The Armistice Day celebration of ➤ airmail service were introduced http://www.nps.gov/glec/ Nov. 11, 1918, expressed gratitude in the D.C. area. From the Glen Echo Park for the end of war and survival of Wright brothers to Wrong Way Began in 1891 as a National Chautauqua the Spanish influenza epidemic in Corrigan, the American spirit of Assembly, then became an amusement which nearly 3,500 area residents determination and dreams are park where you could dance to music had died. Government jobs and evident. of Glen Miller or ride a bumper car. economic stability were drawing You can ride the restored 1921 Dentzel many to move north to D.C. Read Art carousel. The menagerie carousel has 40 Between 1920 and 1940 Give students copies of “A handcarved animals. technological advances brought New Day.” Find examples of ➤ http://www.radiohistory.org/ the unimaginable: nylon stockings, transportation and improvements Museum.htm skyscrapers, passenger airplanes in safety, personal use of the radio Radio-Television Museum and penicillin. The Art Deco style and telephone, mail delivery, Duke Bowie in decorative arts and architecture Ellington and a president’s wife Showcase for a radio-related walk reflected the combination of with her pet, entertainment and through history, as reflected in technical modern spirit and industrial daily life. equipment and consumer products. Open growth as seen in automobiles What does the artist think is Saturdays and Sunday, 1-4, self-guided. and diners, air travel, the grace important to know about the era? and strength of the Golden Gate Call Dwight Heasty, 301-894-0550, to Bridge, the bravado and elegance of arrange a weekday group tour. Free admission. 2 April 27, 2004 © 2004 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 7 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program D.C. Renaissance (continued) Arts & Artists Check out Geography by Dorothea Lange and other ➤ http://www.pbs.org/ Give students “Map It.” These photographers who took part in the treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/faberge_ two decades saw the creation WPA. nav/main_fabfrm.html of West Potomac Park and Peter Carl Faberge, 1846-1920 construction of today’s favorite Examine the Architecture Faberge eggs and other jeweled items monuments. Marshland and some Students are introduced to Art of the Potomac River were claimed Deco that emerged as the Supreme ➤ http://www.pbs.org/ for these projects. A growing Court Building, Lincoln Memorial treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/ population and advances in and Jefferson Memorial were built. transportation are also evident. “What Is Art Deco?” covers the guernica_nav/gnav_level_1/2process_ basics of the architectural and guerfrm.html Understand the Era design style. “Art Deco Drive” Pablo Picasso, 1881-1937 Through art one can gain insight encourages students to visit Art Cubism into a time period—its economics, Deco structures that remain in our its sensibilities, its dreams. Use area. Geography, map reading and ➤ http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ the “Art & Artists” sidebar list and sequencing skills can be practiced K/kandinsky.html timeline as starting points. Works with this activity. In what order Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944 of all, but Fabergé, are found at would students visit the locations? Abstract the National Gallery of Art (many Which is nearest to their homes? online at www.nga.gov). The Phillips Art Gallery (http://www. D.C. Renaissance ➤ http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/ phillipscollection.org), America’s Although the Harlem Renaissance background/index.html first modern art gallery that is better known, Washington, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 1887-1986 opened in 1921 in the Georgian D.C., had an equally important Dadaism and surrealism Revival home of Duncan Phillips, role in the literary, musical and has examples of Vuillard, O’Keeffe artistic outpouring of African ➤ http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch? and Picasso as well as many 20th Americans. The reproducibles in Request=S&imageset=1&Person=7860 century artists. Fabergé’s work this guide introduce U Street and Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997 can be seen at Hillwood Museum the individuals who were key to its & Gardens (D.C.), Walters Art vitality. Abstract expressionism Museum (Md.) and Virginia “U Street—The Place To Be” Museum of Fine Arts. Works by introduces students to key people ➤ http://www.joslyn.org/permcol/ Kandinsky, Thomas Hart Benton and places in the D.C. Renaissance 20thcen/pages/wood.html and O’Keeffe are in the Hirshhorn. as they locate addresses on a Grant Wood, 1891-1942 After an introduction to these map. “D.C. Renaissance” can Fauve palette, Realism artists, you might ask which best be done in groups or with each reflects the spirit of the writers and student considering aspects ➤ http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ musicians of the D.C. Renaissance. of the awakening. Some of the H/hopper.html This study would also show activities encourage use of Web Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 students how museums developed sites to give students practice in in D.C. The Phillips Gallery, using the Internet for research. Realism Hillwood Museum & Gardens, When students read the works of the National Gallery of Art and Langston Hughes, make the D.C. ➤ http://www.corcoran.org/collection/ Hirshhorn—all have fascinating connection with “Langston Hughes highlights_main_results.asp?ID=36 stories. Discovered in D.C.” This can also Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975 Look also for photographs be an exercise to read a map and Realism 3 April 27, 2004 © 2004 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 7 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program D.C. Renaissance (continued) Read About It plot locations visited by Hughes. Broadcasting System (CBS) Blumenthal, Karen. Six Days in Younger students can be in 1927, and the American October: The Stock Market Crash of introduced to the D.C. Renaissance Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1929 by reading selected biographies 1943. The latter was created when Wall Street Journal writer covers the on the D.C. Renaissance Web the owner of Lifesaver, Edward events, people and ignored warning site (http://www.dclibrary.org/ Nobel, bought the NBC Blue signs that contributed to the crash of blkren). Categorize each as artist, Network (“Red” remained NBC). 1929. Gr. 7+ musician or writer. Listen to The suggested activity has examples of the musicians’ works. students becoming acquainted Feinberg, Barbara. Black Tuesday: The How does each one make you feel? with the period’s entertainment Stock Market Crash of 1929 The following questions are programming and then producing Helping children understand the crash modified from a NewsHour forum their own radio pilot. Give and Great Depression on the Harlem Renaissance (http: students “Radio—All the Rage.” //www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/ This activity asks students to Hahn, Mary Downing. Anna All Year february98/harlem_2-20.html). become script writer/recording Round You might ask older students: team for a 15-minute radio show. Meet friends and family of 8-year-old • Did the D.C. Renaissance use Limiting the time requires students Anna during a year in Baltimore just exotic, sensual images to celebrate to use every minute wisely. “On before World War I. African-American culture? Air” sidebar lists prominent • With so many economic shows of the era.