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del Corazon! Latino Voices in American Art
del Corazon! Latino Voices in American Art Powerful, provocative, and contemplative, the Latino artists featured on this website speak through their artworks. Each work expresses the rich and varied experience of being Latino in the United States. ¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art goes behind-the-scenes and uses photographs, videos, and other resources to reveal the artists and their works.
¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art
Manuel Carrillo
Manuel Carrillo This website reveals Mexico's indigenous people through the lens of Mexican photographer Manuel Carrillo. Activities ask students to be critical about how photography tells stories and represents people.
Manuel Carrillo Educational Activities
Our Journeys/Out Stories
Linda Alvarado, Entrepreneur Students learn from inspirational stories and portraits of diverse Latino men and women who have lived extraordinary lives and made significant contributions to life in the United States. The guide helps students to imagine the future and think about the people they can inspire.
Guide
Antonio Lopez
Antonio Lopez Puerto Ricans Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos created a vision that defined the late-twentieth-century concept of beauty in art and fashion. The educational activities in art, literature, and social studies ask students to identify art movements, places, and cultures that influenced the artists.
Antonio Educational Activities
Tales of Lienzos
Sattle Ornament The lessons presented here encourage educators and their students to examine the multiple layers of activity and artistry that are a part of the Lienzo and the practice of Charrería. The activities can easily be adapted to to meet the needs of a range of students' abilities.
Educational Activities
Inside/Out
Inside/Out This exhibition creates awareness of the socio-economic conditions in which elderly Latinos in two urban communities live and celebrate their heritage and culture. Activities allow students to create a history of their own community through the perspective of its elders.
Inside/Out Educational Activites
Lowrider
Lowrider This multidimensional presentation highlights how Latinos transformed their cars, with humor, a sense of history and identity, and mechanical prowess, into popular art. Includes language arts, social studies, physics and math activities.
Lowrider Educational Activities
Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente
Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente This website is designed to provide activities that encourage middle school-aged students to explore the life of famed baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente. Students experience history, visual arts, drama, and language arts through exercises that spark their own creativity and curiosity. Further, lessons are included that celebrate the rich culture of Puerto Rico.
Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente
Puerto Rican Carnival
Puerto Rican Carnival Students can use the Try It! activities on this page to learn more about the carnival traditions of Puerto Rico. They can explore the history of the Ponce Carnival, participate in hands-on activities such as creating a Carnival mask at home, and learn how to become a collector.
A Puerto Rican Carnival
Letters from Home
Letters from Home The site features downloadable enrichment materials for the advanced English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Students use letters to build language and communication skills and create an exhibition of letters.
Letters from Home

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