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Meta Warrick Fuller

Educator Resources

Danforth Museum of Art

Program

How To Use This Packet

Family Photos

Biography of Meta Warrick Fuller

Grade 3 Reading Level

About Meta Warrick Fuller’s Art

Grade 3 Reading Level

Who was Meta Warrick Fuller?Classroom Activities

Graphic Organizers for Classroom Activities

Art Lesson Plans

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Meta Warrick Fuller Program: Educator Resources 3

Meta Warrick Fuller was a local African-American sculptor of national importance. She moved to Framingham with her husband Solomon in 1909. In the next 60 years, she inspired the re-birth of African-American art – the Harlem Renaissance – and changed the way her neighbors in Framingham saw race.

Included in this packet are a child-friendly biography of the artist, with translations in Spanish and Portuguese. Ask students to read these as preparation for their field trip. Framingham Public School teachers have also developed classroom activity ideas and art lesson plans, for further integration into your curriculum. Further resources are available in the bibliography. We hope you will adapt this packet to your curricular needs, and inform us of its value and effectiveness.

Also see “Planning Your Visit” for more information about the Meta Warrick Fuller tour and art program.

Join Us on Moodle! (Framingham Public Schools Only)

The museum created a course on Moodle called “Third Grade Meta Fuller Program” for teacher and/or classroom use. The course includes resources like photographs, websites, and letters copied from the museum’s own files. To help us provide the most useful resources, please tell us what you used and how by commenting in the forums.

At present, the Moodle page is only accessible to Framingham teachers, but resources are made available to other school systems upon request.

For more information or to schedule a field trip…

Please contact Kendra Keefer-McGee, Museum Education Coordinator by email to [email protected] or phone at 508.620.0050 ext. 23

The Meta Fuller Program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sudbury Foundation, Target Foundation and the generosity of individual donors.

How To use This Packet


Family Photos


Who was Meta Warrick Fuller?

Meta Warrick Fuller was a famous, African American sculptor. She lived and worked for most of her life in Framingham! Meta had great skill as a sculptor and her sculptures depict many different emotions or feelings. It is not easy to make a sculpture look real, but Meta could do it. It is very difficult to create emotion in a sculpture, but each one of Meta’s sculptures did.

Meta was born in Philadelphia in 1877. That was 133 years ago! She was very influenced by her family. Her dad was a barber and her mom was a hairdresser. They were both sculptors in their own way. Her sister was her first art teacher. She taught Meta how to paint in watercolor. Her brother told spooky, ghost stories. You can see some of these “spooky” ideas in some of her work.

Meta had many wonderful opportunities as a young girl. She took dance lessons, rode horses, and often went to the art museum. She went to school in the Philadelphia Public Schools. Early on, her parents and her teachers saw that she was talented in art and encouraged her as an artist. As a teenager, she was selected to attend an arts school once a week.

Although Meta was given many wonderful opportunities, life was not always easy. During Meta’s life, African-Americans and women did not have the same rights that they have now. For example, there were many places that Meta was not allowed to go because of the color of her skin. Even though she was considered a “genius” by many, she was not given the same attention and fame as other sculptors because she was an African-American and a woman.

Biography of Meta Warrick Fuller

What do you think life was like 133 years ago when Meta Warrick Fuller was born?

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QHow would you feel if you were treated unfairly?


After college, Meta got a very exciting opportunity to study and work in Paris, France. Since Paris was across the ocean and very far away, Meta’s mother did not want to let Meta go. But eventually, Meta’s mother was convinced to let her leave for Paris. It was there that Meta met many famous artists and great thinkers. In Paris, Meta got much of the attention and fame she deserved as a talented, hard-working sculptor.

After Meta returned from Paris, she met and married Dr. Solomon Fuller and moved to Framingham, MA! Dr. Fuller was famous because he was the first African-American psychiatrist in America.

At first, the neighbors were not happy that African-Americans were moving in next door. They signed a petition to try to keep them out of the neighborhood. Little by little, though, they got to know Meta and Solomon and they became friends.

Meta and Solomon had three sons. Her family was very important to her and influenced her sculptures. Meta was expected to give up her career as an artist to be a full-time mother. Despite this, she found ingenious ways to continue sculpting. She even had her own studio built, and kept it secret from her husband until it was finished!

Meta died in 1968 (42 years ago). Her art was important to her throughout her life, and her art continues to inspire and influence many people today.

Meta’s art was influenced by her family. Who and what influences you?

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biografía de Meta Warrick Fuller

¿Cómo crees que era la vida hace 133 años, cuando Meta Warrick Fuller nació?

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¿Quién fue Meta Warrick Fuller?

Meta Warrick Fuller fue una escultora afro-americana famosa. ¡Vivió y trabajó durante la mayor parte de su vida en Framingham! Meta tenía una gran habilidad para la escultura y sus esculturas representan diferentes emociones o sentimientos. No es fácil hacer que una escultura luzca real, pero Meta podía hacerlo. Es muy difícil crear emociones en una escultura, pero cada una de las esculturas de Meta lo logra.

Meta nació en Filadelfia en el año1877. ¡Eso fue hace 133 años! Ella se vio muy influenciada por su familia. Su padre era barbero y su madre era peluquera. Ambos eran escultores a su manera. Su hermana fue su primera maestra de arte. Le enseñó a Meta cómo pintar en acuarela. Su hermano contaba historias espantosas de fantasmas. Se puede apreciar algunas de estas “espeluznante” ideas en algunos de sus trabajos.

Meta tuvo grandes oportunidades de niña. Tomó lecciones de baile, montaba a caballo, y muchas veces iba al museo de arte. Ella asistió a las escuelas públicas de Filadelfia. Al principio, sus padres y sus profesores vieron que Meta tenía talento para las artes y la entusiasmaron para que fuera artista. Cuando era adolescente, fue seleccionada para asistir a una escuela de arte una vez por semana.

Aunque a Meta le dieron muchas oportunidades, su vida no siempre fue fácil. Durante la época en que Meta vivía, los afro-americanos y las mujeres no tenían los mismos derechos que tienen ahora. Por ejemplo, había muchos lugares donde a Meta no se le permitía ir por el color de su piel. A pesar de que era considerada un “genio” por muchos, no tuvo la misma atención y la fama que otros escultores tuvieron por ser afro-americana y mujer.

Q¿Cómo te sentirías si fueras tratado injustamente?


El arte de Meta fue influenciado por su familia. ¿Quién y qué ejerce influencia en ti?

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Después de asistir a la universidad, a Meta le surge la gran oportunidad de estudiar y trabajar en París, Francia. Ya que París se encuentra al otro lado del océano y muy lejos, la madre de Meta no quería dejarla ir. Pero con el tiempo, la madre de Meta se convenció de que debía dejarla partir para París. Fue allí donde Meta conoció a muchos artistas famosos y a grandes pensadores. En París, Meta obtiene gran parte de la atención y la fama que se merecía como escultora talentosa y trabajadora.

¡Después que Meta regresó de París, conoció y se casó con el Dr. Salomon Fuller y se mudó a Framingham, MA! El Dr. Fuller fue famoso porque fue el primer psiquiatra afro-americano en Estados Unidos. Al principio, a los vecinos no les agradaba la idea de que unos afro-americanos se mudaran cerca de sus casas. Ellos firmaron una petición para tratar de mantenerlos fuera del vecindario. Sin embargo, poco a poco, fueron conociendo a Meta y a Salomón y se hicieron amigos.

Meta y Salomón tenían tres hijos varones. Su familia era muy importante para ella y le influenciaron en sus esculturas. Se suponía que Meta iba a renunciar a su carrera como artista para ser madre a tiempo completo. A pesar de esto, Meta se las ingenió para continuar creando esculturas. ¡Inclusive, construyo su propio estudio y se lo ocultó a su esposo hasta que estuvo terminado!

Meta murió en 1968 (hace 42 años). Su arte fue importante para ella durante toda su vida; y su arte sigue inspirando e influenciando a muchas personas hoy en día.


biografia de Meta Warrick Fuller

Como você acha que era a vida há 133 anos atrás, quando Meta Warrick Fuller nasceu?

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Quem foi Meta Warrick Fuller?

Meta Warrick Fuller foi uma famosa escultora Afro-Americana. Ela morou e trabalhou em Framingham por quase toda a sua vida! Meta era muito talentosa como escultora e suas esculturas representavam diferentes emoções e sentimentos. Não é fácil fazer uma escultura parecer real, mas Meta conseguia. É muito difícil criar uma emoção em uma escultura, mas todas as esculturas de Meta mostravam uma emoção.

Meta nasceu na Philadelphia em 1877. Isso foi há 133 atrás! Ela foi muito influenciada por sua família. Seu pai era um barbeiro e sua mãe, uma cabeleireira. Os dois eram escultores, de certa forma. Sua irmã foi sua primeira professora de arte. Ela ensinou Meta a pintar aquarelas. Seu irmão contava assustadoras estórias de fantasmas. Você pode ver um pouco dessas idéias “assustadoras” em alguns de seus trabalhos.

Meta teve muitas oportunidades maravilhosas quando ela era criança. Ela fez aulas de dança, aprendeu a andar a cavalo, e ia sempre ao museu de arte. Ela estudou nas Escolas Públicas da Philadelphia. Desde cedo, seus pais e professores viram que ela tinha talento para artes e a incentivaram a ser uma artista. Na adolescência, ela foi escolhida para fazer aulas em uma escola de arte uma vez por semana.

Mesmo com todas essas oportunidades maravilhosas, a vida de Meta não foi sempre fácil. Naquela época, as pessoas Afro-Americanas e as mulheres não tinham os mesmos direitos que têm hoje. Por exemplo, Meta não podia ir a muitos lugares por causa da cor de sua pele. Mesmo sendo considerada um “gênio” por muitos, ela não recebia a mesma atenção e fama que os outros escultores porque era Afro-Americana e mulher.

QComo você iria se sentir se fosse tratada injustamente?


A arte de Meta foi influenciada por sua família. Quem e o que influencia você?

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Quando terminou a faculdade, Meta teve uma oportunidade incrível de estudar e trabalhar em Paris, na França. Como Paris era do outro lado do oceano e muito longe, a mãe de Meta não deixou ela ir. Mas depois, a mãe de Meta acabou concordando que ela fosse para Paris. Foi lá que Meta conheceu muitos artistas famosos e grandes pensadores. Em Paris, Meta recebeu a atenção e a fama que ela merecia como uma talentosa e dedicada escultora.

Quando Meta voltou de Paris, ela conheceu e se casou com o Dr. Solomon Fuller e eles se mudaram para Framingham, MA! Dr. Fuller era famoso porque foi o primeiro psiquiatra Afro-Americano da America.

No início, os vizinhos não ficaram felizes porque o casal Afro-Americano estava se mudando para a vizinhança. Eles assinaram um documento para tentar mantê-los longe da vizinhança. Aos poucos, eles conheceram Meta e Solomon e se tornaram amigos.

Meta and Solomon tiveram três filhos. Sua família era muito importante para ela e influenciou suas esculturas. Era esperado que Meta desistisse de sua carreira como artista para ser uma mãe em tempo integral. Apesar disso, ela encontrou um jeito de continuar esculpindo. Ela construiu o seu próprio estúdio em segredo, e só contou para seu marido quando o estúdio ficou pronto!

Meta morreu em 1968 (42 anos atrás). Sua arte foi importante para ela durante toda a sua vida, e continua a inspirar e influenciar muitas pessoas até hoje.


Meta Warrick Fuller created some of her most famous sculptures after she moved to Framingham! Meta found inspiration in her environment – her family and her culture (the African-American community).

African-Americans went through many struggles. Meta spoke out about these struggles through her art. Many of her sculptures show how hard life was for African-Americans. She also made sculptures inspired by African-American music and poetry.

About Meta Warrick Fuller’s Art

Water Boy, painted plaster, 1930Maxwell Nicy Haysen, painted plaster

This is a sculpture of an African American poet. What do you think he is thinking?

QThis is a sculpture we believe was influenced by an important African-American work song. Can you guess what thisfigure is doing?

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Sobre el Arte de Meta Warrick Fuller

¡Meta Warrick Fuller realizó algunas de sus esculturas más famosas después de que se mudó al pueblo de Framingham! Meta encuentra la inspiración en su entorno - su familia y su cultura (la comunidad afro-americana).

Los afro-americanos tuvieron que luchar mucho. Meta expresó estas luchas a través de su arte. Muchas de sus esculturas muestran lo dura que fue la vida para los afro-americanos. Ella también realizó esculturas inspiradas en la música y en la poesía afro-americana.

Water Boy, yeso pintado, 1930Maxwell Nicy Haysen, yeso pintado

Este es una escultura de un poeta afro-americano. ¿En que crees que está pensando?

QEsta es una escultura que creemos fue influenciada por una canción afro-americana importante. ¿Puedes adivinar quela figura hace?

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Sobre a Arte de Meta Warrick Fuller

Water Boy, escultura pintada en gesso, 1930

Maxwell Nicy Haysen, escultura pintada en gesso

Essa é uma escultura de um poeta Afro-Americano. O que você acha que ele está pensando?

QAcreditamos que essa escultura foi influenciada por uma importante canção de trabalho Afro-Americana. Pode você adivinhar que istoa figura está fazendo?

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Meta Warrick Fuller criou algumas de suas esculturas mais famosas depois que mudou-se para Framingham! Meta encontrou inspiraão em sua família e sua cultura (a comunidade Afro-Americana).

As pessoas de origem Afro-Americana passaram por muitas dificuldades. Meta falou sobre essas dificuldades através de sua arte. Muitas de suas esculturas mostram como a vida das pessoas Afro-Americanas era dura. Ela também fez esculturas inspiradas na música e poesia Afro-Americana.


Lesson and Graphic Organizers designed by Rebecca Lepow

Lesson Objective

Students will read a brief biography about Meta Warrick Fuller and identify the important events from her life.

MA Curriculum Frameworks Addressed

Social Studies Standard 3.7: After reading a biography of a person from Massachusetts in one of the following categories (the arts), summarize the person’s life and achievements (H, C)Reading and Literature Strand Standard 8: Students will identify the basic facts and main ideas in an informational text and use them as the basis for interpretation

Materials

Meta Warrick Fuller biographyGraphic organizer of your choice (puzzle, main idea, movie strip)

Lesson

The teacher will introduce the students to Meta Warrick Fuller by showing some pictures of Meta Warrick Fuller and her family. The teacher will explain that Meta Warrick Fuller was a famous artist who lived in Framingham with her family. He/She will explain that at the time Meta Warrick Fuller was living in Framingham, it was difficult to be a minority. Many African Americans were not recognized for their talents and this was true for Meta Warrick Fuller. The teacher will explain that the students are going to read a biography about Meta’s life to learn more about the famous person that once lived in Framingham. The teacher will also explain the graphic organizer that he/she chooses to use with the class.

Who was Meta Warrick Fuller?Classroom Activities


The activities are to be used as follows:

Movie Strip

Students will read the biography and identify the important events from Meta Warrick Fuller’s life. After identifying six events the students will order them chronologically. They will write a sentence about the first event in the first box of the strip, and illustrate the event. They will continue to do this for all six events. The finished product will show a “movie” of her life.

Puzzle

Students will read the biography about Meta Warrick Fuller. They will then determine the main idea from each part of her life. Students will write the main idea on the puzzle piece for that time of her life and illustrate the main idea. The finished product will show a complete puzzle of all the parts of Meta Warrick Fuller’s life.

Main Idea Activity

Students will read the biography about Meta Warrick Fuller. They will then determine the main idea from the four parts of her life identified. Students will write the main idea on for the part of her life identified and illustrate the main idea. The student will do this for all four parts of her life. The finished product will show an overview of all the parts of Meta Warrick Fuller’s life.

Main Idea Activity (advanced)

This activity can be used for students who may need more of a challenge. The activity is more open-ended and requires students to determine the four most important facts/events from Meta Warrick Fuller’s life. Once students identify four events, they need to make a sentence that describes the main idea of the biography about Meta Warrick Fuller.

After students have completed the activity, the class will gather back together and students will share their activities. At this time the class can discuss the important events from Meta Warrick Fuller’s life.


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Lesson 1 by Linda Forman

Grade 3 and higherLesson Theme: Using an image or sculpture to express thoughts, feelings and ideas.


Visual Arts Standard 1: Methods, Materials and Techniques: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the methods, materials and techniques unique to the visual arts Standard 3: Students will demonstrate their powers of observation in a variety of media, materials and techniques Standard 5: Critical Response: Students will describe and analyze their own work and the work of others using appropriate visual arts vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.

Background Information

Why learn about Meta Warrick Fuller? Throughout her life, Meta experienced racism and discrimination, but she persevered through these challenges to become one of the pioneering African-American women in sculpture and visual art in America.

Although sometimes classified under the Harlem Renaissance, Meta actually did all of her work in Paris, France; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Boston and Framingham, Massachusetts. She was born in Philadelphia on June 9, 1877 and raised in an African-American middle class neighborhood by her father, a barber, and her mother, a wigmaker. They followed their primarily white clients to Atlantic City during the summers. Since Atlantic City was segregated, the family was required to live outside of the city. In order to swim with her white friends on ‘white only beaches’, Meta had to wake up early in the morning, before the rules were enforced later in the day.At 16 Meta received a three-year scholarship to study at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art. From 1899-1902 she studied at the academies in Paris. When she first arrived in Paris, her skin color prevented her from staying in American Girls’ Club, as she had been planning. She had to search for other housing. While in Paris she met African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Meta had success in Paris, selling work in Parisian art galleries.When Meta returned to the USA she found that the Philadelphia Art Society was not ready to embrace an African-American female artist. But she persevered in her talents and passion for the arts. She was commissioned to create a diorama for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition in 1907. The diorama depicted the progress of African-Americans since the founding of Jamestown, VA in 1607. With this she became the first African-American female artist to receive a federal commission for her work.

Art Lesson Plan 1: Meta Warrick Fuller


Soon after, Meta met Dr. Solomon Fuller, a West African immigrant who became America’s first black psychiatrist. They married in 1909 and moved to Warren Road in Framingham, within walking distance from the McCarthy School. Their neighbors started a petition to prevent them from moving into the neighborhood, but they moved in anyway. Every day, Meta took walks up and down the street. Gradually, their neighbors changed their opinion.

A warehouse fire in Philadelphia destroyed 16 years worth of her artwork in 1910. After recovering from the shock, Meta began to create sculptures celebrating African-American stories and themes of social injustice. ‘Ethiopia Awakening,’ one of her most celebrated pieces symbolized “the African American lineage to North Africa, the bourgeoning of African American culture in mainstream society, and the call for African Americans to recognize the intellectual and spiritual influence that Africa could have on their ongoing formation in racist America.” (http://onemoreblackwoman.blogspot.com/2009/11/pioneering-visual-arts-meta-fuller.html)

Meta’s sculptures that depicted African-Americans and their experience influenced artists of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, including Faith Ringgold. Meta died on March 18, 1968 at age 90. Many of her descendants continue to live in Framingham.

Materials

They will vary depending upon what is available. Some possibilities are clay, paper mache, cardboard tubes, boxes and optional recycling material.


Introduction

Have students look at a poster of the quilt made by Faith Ringgold that includes Meta Warrick Fuller along with other important African-American women in history.

Solicit responses about what they see in the picture. What do these women have in common? (All are famous African American artists.) Share some examples of artists’ works that show their concern for important ideas and times in history. Eg. Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With (about Ruby Bridges)Norman Rockwell, Negro in the Suburbs (about integration)Pablo Picasso, Guernica (war)Kara Walker, paper cut silhouettes (African American stereotypes and injustices of slavery.)

Share some photos of Meta’s sculpture showing their theme of the African American experience. Eg. Water Boy. Provide the students with some background information about her life and how segregation affected it. Note the bold type in the background information.

Students will create a 3D sculpture about a topic that they feel strongly about, dealing with social issues. Generate a list of possible topics. Possible topics might be the environment, human rights, the humane treatment of animals, creation a world where all people have food, shelter and basic health care.

Students will write an artist statement to accompany their work.

Evaluation

There will be a group critique.


Lesson 2 by Maria Grieci

Objectives for Learning


Visual Arts Learning Standard 1.1: Use a variety of materials and media, for example, crayons, chalk, paint, clay, various kinds of papers, textiles, and yarns, and understand how to use them to produce different visual effects Learning Standard 1.2: Create artwork in a variety of two- dimensional (2D) and three- dimensional (3D) media, for example: 2D - drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, weaving; 3D - plastic (malleable) materials such as clay and paper, wood, or found objects for assemblage and construction Learning Standard 3.3: Create 2D and 3D artwork from memory or imagination to tell a story or embody an idea or fantasy Learning Standard 4.1: Select a work or works created during the year and discuss them with a parent, classmate, or teacher, explaining how the work was made, and why it was chosen for discussion Learning Standard 7.1: Investigate how artists create their work; read about, view films about, or interview artists such as choreographers, dancers, composers, singers, instrumentalists, actors, storytellers, playwrights, illustrations, painters, sculptors, craftspeople, or architects Learning Standard 10.1: Integrate knowledge of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts and apply the arts to learning other disciplines

English Language Arts Speaking and Listening Standard 3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally Language Standard 3.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing Reading Standards for Informational Text 3.7: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g. maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g. where, when, why and how key events occur

Art Lesson Plan 2: Illustrated Biography


Content Objectives Students will be able to... identify Meta Warrick Fuller’s sculptures at the Danforth Museum of Art work together to create an illustrated class biography of Meta Warrick Fuller’s life

Language Objectives Students will be able to... write simple sentences to describe her life use content vocabulary appropriately Content Vocabulary: sculptress, clay, sculpture, Meta Warrick Fuller, biography, illustrations, binding, cover, author, illustrator, chapters

General Procedures (activities and materials) Student Artists will have already visited the Danforth Museum, viewed Meta Warrick Fuller’s sculpture and clay models, and have learned about her life

Artist Teacher will ask, “What did you learn about Meta Warrick Fuller? What do you remember about her artwork? What do you remember about her life?”

Artist Teacher will reintroduce information about Meta Warrick Fuller’s life

Artist Teacher will divide class into groups: Childhood, Young Adult Life, and Adult Life which will make up the three chapters of the class-created biography

Each Student Artist will receive a piece of 9” X 12” 60 lb. white paper, pencils, colored pencils, markers and crayons, as well as sketch paper to practice

Each group will have resource materials for inspiration when creating their chapter of Meta Warrick Fuller’s biography

Student Artists discuss the order of events and collaborate to divide pages so each artist is responsible for one event (page) in Meta Warrick Fuller’s life

Student Artists write a sentence to describe the event and illustrate it using materials of their choice


Artist Teacher will walk around class and help students sort ideas and organize thoughts and illustrations, asking “What idea will you illustrate?”

By the end of Class 1, students should each have a sentence or two neatly written on their paper and a quick sketch of the illustration

During Class 2 the Student Artists will continue working on their illustrations

Student Artists can share their work with the class during Artist Share

By the end of Class 2, all pages should be in order, numbered, and ready to be bound

One or two Student Artists can be responsible for making a Table of Contents and a cover which all Student Artists will sign as Author-Illustrators

The Artist Teacher will laminate the pages back to back and bind the book, presenting it to the class for their library

Follow Through and Evaluation Informal individual assessment during brainstorming, illustration Artist Share as a whole group

Additional Information Helpful for Understanding the Lesson

Students activate background knowledge of sculpture, author-illustrators, biography. They have observed Meta Warrick Fuller’s sculpture at the Danforth Museum.


Bibliographies

Image Credits

“Framingham Honors a Legend.” Middlesex News [Framingham, MA] 5 Feb 1995. Courtesy of Framingham History Center.Woman Glancing to Her Right, ca. 1915, polychromed cast plaster (Collection of Danforth Museum of Art) Courtesy of Heather Swartz.Meta and her sister Blanche. Photograph courtesy of Harriet Fuller.Meta with her son Perry, 1917 Photograph courtesy of Solomon Fuller.Family photograph courtesy of Pat West.Negro Poet (Maxwell Nicy Haysen), before 1947, painted plaster. (Collection of Danforth Museum of Art) Courtesy of Heather Swartz.

Print

• The African American National Biography• Black Women in America• Africana• Encyclopedia of African American History• Dictionary of Women Artists• Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America• Profiles of Negro Womanhood

Ater, Renee. “Making History: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Ethiopia.” American Art 17.3 (2003): 12-31. Print.Bearden, Romare, and Harry Henderson. A History of African American Artists: From 1792 to the Present. New York: Pantheon, 1993. Print.Biome, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1990. Print. Brawley, Benjamin G. The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts. Cheshire, C.T.: Biblo-Moser, 1966. Print.Calacone, Donna. “The Sculpture of Meta Fuller and the African-American Experience.” A.L.M. thesis. Harvard University, 1992.Cederholm, Theresa Dickason. Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory. Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973. Print.Farrington, Lisa E. Creating Their Own Image: the History of African American Women Artists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.Hoover, Velma G. “Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller: Her Life and Her Art.” Negro History Bulletin 40.2 (1977): 678-81. Print.Kaplan, Mary. Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested. Lanham, M.D.: University Press of America, 2005. Print.Kerr, Judith Nina. “God-Given Work: The Life and Times of Sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, 1877-1968.” Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1986. King-Hammond, Leslie, and Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, eds. 3 Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox. Philadelphia, P.A.: Afro- American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1996. Print.


Leininger-Miller, Theresa. New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Print.Logan, Rayford W. “Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.” Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Ed. Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1983. 255-256. Print. Patterson, Lindsay. The Negro in Music and Art. New York: Publishers Co., 1968. Print.Perkins, Kathy A. “The Genius of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.” Black American Literature Forum 24.1 (1990): 65-72. Print.Porter, James A. Modern Negro Art. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1992. Print.Powell, Richard J. et al. Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance. London: Hayward Gallery. 1997. Print.

Web

For Students

The African American Registry’s page on Meta Fuller includes a brief biography and a photograph.http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/meta-vw-fuller-sculptor-black-themes

This page is linked to the historical marker located at Fuller’s Philadelphia home. You can find a comprehensive biography as well as images of Fuller’s work.http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=606

For Teachers

Bridgewater State College’s Hall of Black Achievement’s page discusses the significance of Fuller’s art.http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Fuller.cfm

Fuller’s Alma Mater, The University of the Arts, then known as the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, hosts this page on the artist’s life and work. It includes an extensive list of books and articles for further reading.http://library.uarts.edu/archives/alumni/warrickfuller.html

W.E.B. DuBois was one of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s greatest supporters. This user-friendly website, created by the W.E.B. DuBois Library at UMASS Amherst, provides access to a variety of resources on his life and work.http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/

Emancipation Proclamation had limited scope but was a milestone and symbolic victory for freedom from slavery.http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

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