Image created by Maritza Lohman, for Art Sphere Inc. Alma Thomas was an African American woman born in 1891 in Georgia, and she moved to Washington D.C. later in life. In 1924, she became Howard University’s first fine arts graduate and the first African American with a fine arts degree. …
See Lorna Simpson Art Make art like Lorna Simpson, an African American artist based in New York who uses various mediums to question identity, gender, race and history, with a focus on African American women. Today’s inspiration comes from her recent focus on hair. She uses photographs of African American …
This month, June, is known as Pride month! It is a celebration for people in the LGBTQIA+ community to be proud of who they are. The most common symbol of the community is the pride flag! The flag consists of six colors, and each color has a meaning. Red for …
In this video lesson, we use glass bottles and tap water to learn more about the musical and scientific concept of pitch and create a laboratory of sound in our very own kitchen! At the end, we learn how to play the timeless song, “Hot Cross Buns”. At the links …
Make a father’s day card that looks like a shirt and tie, with coupons written on paper ties inside to show your dad how much you appreciate him on Father’s Day! This project is one of the virtual literacy through art classes hosted on Facebook Live from 1:30-2pm every Wednesday …
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the freedom of the last slave on June 19, 1865. This was two whole years after the 15th president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to free all slaves after the civil war. Nowadays, African Americans celebrate by coming together to share …
Similar to how we have an alphabet that represents sounds to form words that can be read, written and spoken in English, Ancient Egypt had their own writing system called hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs are stylized pictures of objects representing words, syllables, or sounds. There are over 1,000 distinct characters. Egyptians would …
The Ruby-Throated hummingbird is one of the most common types of hummingbirds in the Eastern United States. Hummingbirds are pollinators like bees, which spread pollen from flower to flower in order to grow more! To see hummingbirds in your garden, you could put out a hummingbird feeder in your garden …
