Student Team Presentations At Museum Site
Purpose: Discover through an artistic forum, the presentation of female warriors, female leaders in war and females in combat environments. Consider artifacts in the form of statuary,
archeological pieces, paintings and drawings, coins and stamps and jewelry related to the themes of the elective course of study. Students will select teams of two or more and spend
approximately two hours at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and select a work of art or artifact that is representative of curriculum content. A short brief will be given by the teams to
each other by noting why they selected their artifact or work of art with a brief background and story about their choice.
Required:
1). Field trip, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 456 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
(617) 267-9300
2). Rudyard Kipling. The Female of the Species, 1911.
Review one of more of the following:
3). "The Art of War: Women Artists at Imperial War Museum--in pictures."
Kathleen Palmer, The Guardian, 2011
4). Amanda Mason, WWI "6 Stunning First World War Artworks by Women War Artists."
5). "Art of War: Female Artists in the Field," The Age: Entertainment. May 21, 2015.
6). "Amazon Women in Ancient Greek Art," (ancient) The Role of Women in Ancient Greece.
7). Jeannine Davis-Kimball. "Statues of Saromatian and Sarmatian Women," (ancient, early iron age)
The Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads.
8). "Recruiting Posters for Women," Posters. Naval History and Heritage Command
9). "A Brief History of Female Nurses in the Military, from the American Revolution to World War II,"
10). Photos by Heidi Levine, "Women in the U.S. Army in Iraq,"
11). Hilary Roberts, British Women Photographers of the First World War
Supplemental Materials:
Paula E. Calvin, and Deborah A. Deacon, American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776-2010.
McFarland and Company (2011)