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Jacob Lawrence and The Migration Series

 

Jacob Lawrence and The Migration Series

Explore Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series in a full-color teaching kit produced by The Phillips Collection.

The teaching kit addresses Lawrence's biography, artistic process, and the visual narrative structure of The Migration Series. It also provides teachers with ways to approach important issues and themes such as segregation and discrimination, migration and immigration, and the universal search for a better life through Lawrence's visual portrayal of African American migration.

The Jacob Lawrence and The Migration Series teaching kit received the 2008 Award for Excellence in Published Resources for Education from the American Association of Museums, the highest honor awarded to educational museum publications.

The kit is packed with dynamic multimedia educational resources, which reach across the curriculum to meet National Standards of Learning.

Multimedia resources in the kit:
• educator's guide
• three posters
• three teaching transparencies
• a CD-ROM with images of all works of art, primary sources, and two classroom-ready Powerpoint presentations that incorporate panels from The Migration Series, primary sources, and music
• a DVD with two videos about Lawrence's life and work
• musical selections by Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
• step-by-step illustrated lesson plans and examples of student art
• classroom handouts and worksheets

Download samples from the Jacob Lawrence and The Migration Series kit:

Introduction and Contents | About The Migration Series

Exploring Lawrence's World:
The South | Migration | The North | Rock Island Line (musical selection)

Teaching Tips and Tools:
From the Library to the Easel
Taking the Train—Travel Math
Talk It Up! Doing a Community Interview
Visual Resources sample: The Great Migration Poster

The kit costs $40, including shipping, and may be ordered here.

A professional development workshop based on this teaching kit is available.

Experience the museum's interactive online version of the teaching kit, including a "for teachers" database and examples of student work based on The Migration Series. You can also learn more about Jacob Lawrence and The Migration Series through another online Phillips resource, Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line, and through this page about the series. 

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce, 1940-1941. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.