Show Me as I Want to be Seen: Identity and Art
This interactive resource is a tool to support an inclusive classroom environment and to complement teaching anti-bullying, diversity, gender expansiveness, and race as a social construct. Through the lens of self-portraiture, students are encouraged to engage with art and one another, and reflect on contemporary issues surrounding race, gender, and personal identity, while challenging binary thinking.
Featuring the works of artists like Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, resistance fighters during the Holocaust, this resource uses portraiture to help students understand the evolving, fragmented nature of selfhood. Through portraiture, students will not only examine historical representations of identity but also create a bridge to their personal experiences.
Included in the resource are: an introduction, guiding questions for viewing, 10 images works of art, artists’ biographies and statements, suggested hands-on activities for students, and tips for a concluding discussion.
- Antisemitism
- Arts and Culture
- Belonging
- Bullying
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
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