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INSIDE ART - Poor People's Art

Jill Freedman, Resurrection City. Residents outside their shelters relax in the shadow of the Washington Monument in Resurrection City, a three thousand person tent city on the Washington Mall as part of the Poor People’s Campaign. 1968. The Jill Freedman Irrevocable Trust.

Jill Freedman, Resurrection City. Residents outside their shelters relax in the shadow of the Washington Monument in Resurrection City, a three thousand person tent city on the Washington Mall as part of the Poor People’s Campaign, 1968. The Jill Freedman Irrevocable Trust.

The Spring 2023 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States. The exhibition presents a social history of the experience of underrepresented and underserved communities in the US since 1968. Individually and collectively, the artists included in Poor People's Art tell a story of intersecting injustices of race, class, immigration status, healthcare systems, food insecurity, and gender issues. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education. 

InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Ashlee Highfill, M.Ed.; and Kerrijo Ellis, M.Ed.. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.

The links on this page allow you to download the index and lesson files of the Poor People's Art InsideART.

  • Click ONCE on links to open, or right click (control click) to download
  • Files can be downloaded individually or as a complete archive (.zip) at the bottom of the page.
  • Curriculum and readings are available as both Microsoft Word documents (.docx) and Adobe Acrobat documents (.pdf)
  • Presentations are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.pptx)

 

Poor People's Art files

Curriculum-Crosswalk-(chart).docx (.pdf)
Jill-Freedman.Day-1.Photographer-of-the-People.docx (.pdf)
Jill-Freedman.Day-1.Firehouse_The-Photography-of-Jill-Freedman-at-NYC-Fire-Museum.pdf
Jill-Freedman.Day-1.pptx
Jill-Freedman.Day-2.Resurrection-City-1.docx (.pdf)
Jill-Freedman.Day-2.Resurrection-City-1.pptx
Narsiso-Martinez.Day-1.Revival.docx (.pdf)
Narsiso-Martinez.Day-1.Revival.pptx
Narsiso-Martinez.Day-2.Superfresh.docx (.pdf)
Narsiso-Martinez.Day-2.Superfresh.pptx
Miguel-Luciano.Teaching-Resources.docx (.pdf)
Miguel-Luciano.Pedro-Pietri-obituary.docx (.pdf)
Miguel-Luciano.Excerpt-on-Young-Lords+Pedro-Pietri.docx (.pdf)
Miguel-Luciano.Miguel-Luciano+Young-Lords.pptx

Download Complete InsideART Spring 2023 Poor People's Art Teaching Resources (.zip - 193 MB)


 

Hiram Maristany. Kite Flying On Rooftop, 1964. Courtesy of the Estate of Hiram Maristany.

Hiram Maristany. Kite Flying On Rooftop, 1964. Courtesy of the Estate of Hiram Maristany. 

Further Resources:

View the online exhibition for Poor People's Art.

Download a PDF of the exhibition catalogue (12.6MB).

If you have questions about the lesson plans,  email an expert.