Abby Remer, Recent Projects List

Recent Projects List

Author of Enduring Visions: Women Artistic Heritage Around the World, as well as Pioneering Spirits: The Lives and Times of Remarkable Women Artists Throughout Western History & Discovering Native American Art. Contributing editor to both the student & teacher editions of Discovering Art History. Innovative texts that explore art and its cultural context. (Davis Publications, Inc.)
Inside View: High School Internship Program at the American Museum of Natural History. Initiate and direct pilot program for under-served New York City high school students in which they experience the Museum from "behind-the-scenes" and work one-on-one with staff mentors. (American Museum of Natural History)
Five-session high school curriculum, Why Write? Exploring the History of Writing at the Morgan Library. Ancient Near Eastern seals, medieval illustrated manuscripts, early printed books, and handwritten letters from American history help students explore and construct ideas about the development and significance of writing throughout time. (The Morgan Library)
New York Times Learning Network, curriculum writer of cross-disciplinary lesson plans relating to daily New York Times articles (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html)
Global Shoes Education Kit with cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary school and museum activities relating to Global Shoes, an exhibition that introduces children to the idea of the world as a global community through shoes. (Brooklyn Children's Museum)
Picturing History: American History Painting 1770-1930 Illustrated guides for students and teachers as well as Educator's workshops and Gallery Lecture training exploring how American history painting presents particular events, and the artistic and cultural influences on the artists who interpret them. (IBM Gallery/Fraunces Tavern Museum)
Four-color curriculum packages for the videotape series Behind the Scenes. This ten-part project explores various artistic disciplines and aired nationally on PBS in the fall of 1992. The five teachers' guides focus on the arts with additional cross-curricula activities. (Learning Designs/WNET)
Yellow Magic: The Story of Penicillin Illustrated Teachers' Curriculum presenting the development of penicillin in the 1940s in a multidisciplinary manner, using history, science, art, and the language arts. (Brooklyn Historical Society)
Family & Teacher's guide and Discussion Panels for exhibition of works by Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, reflecting the transition of the native Plains people from traditional life to assimilation during the early part of the 20th century (American Federation of Arts)
Various educational materials and programs for Art of the Himalayas, an exhibition of sacred Buddhist and Hindu art; The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity; and Larry Rivers Retrospective (American Federation of Arts)

For more information please contact Abby Remer via email