History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Demographics
  4. Objectives
  5. Content
  6. Prominent Public Art within Wilmington
  7. Public Art
  8. Strategies
  9. Activities
  10. Bibliography
  11. Appendix A
  12. Notes

The History and Analysis of Public Art: Using Delaware’s Desegregation History as a Ground to Learn, Interpret, and Create

Elizabeth Terlecki

Published September 2015

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

"Advice for Artists on Preparing a Proposal." Public Art. Accessed July 30, 2015. http://www.publicart.ie/main/commissioning/preparing-a-proposal/.

Albarelli, Gerry, and Amy Starecheski. "The Telling Lives Oral History Curriculum Guide." The Telling Lives Oral History Curriculum Guide. April 1, 2005. Accessed August 7, 2015. http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1448391/24079996/1387382411030/Telling_Lives_Curriculum_Guide.pdf?token=ONd0iDtuUAMCUEN4vofBm5uiJr4=.

This is an excellent resource to use with the Oral History Interview activity.

Anderson - Baranger, Hannah, Gaby Benitez, Jen Lunde, Corinne Santoro, and Kevin Shenk. "Sustainable Art Proposal: Fitzpatrick Center." Public Art at Duke University. 2013. Accessed July 30, 2015. http://sites.duke.edu/dukepublicart/files/2013/04/Fitzpatrick-Sustainable-Art-Proposal.pdf.

Brown, Robin. "Monument to Black Medal of Honor Recipients Often Overlooked." The News Journal. July 15, 2008. Accessed July 31, 2015.

Chase, Susan. "Josephine Fountain: Art and Memorial." Friends of Wilmington Parks Newsletter, Summer 2011. Accessed July 15, 2015. http://www.friendsofwilmingtonparks.org/summer11.pdf

"City of Wilmington Delaware." Tilton Park Mural. Accessed July 31, 2015. http://www.ci.wilmington.de.us/residents/tiltonparkmural.

"Civil Rights Movement: Civil Rights Memorial." Smithsonian American Art Museum. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/civil_rights_memorial.pdf.

Eccel, Josephine. "History of Public Education in Delaware During Past 50 Years." Delaware Today. April 1, 2012. Accessed July 12, 2015. http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/April-2012/History-of-Public-Education-in-Delaware-During-Past-50-Years/.

Farrier, John. "America’s Monument to Its Most Infamous Traitor, Benedict Arnold." Neatorama. 2014. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/01/Americas-Monument-to-Its-Most-Infamous-Traitor-Benedict-Arnold/.

Ken, Finkel. "Time For Rocky To Step Aside?" PhillyHistory Blog. September 1, 2011. Accessed July 31, 2015. http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2011/09/time-for-rocky-to-step-aside/.

Fleming, Ronald Lee. The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design. New York, New York: Merrell, 2007.

Grant, Daniel. "The Law Against Artists: Public Art Often Loses Out in Court." Observer. September 4, 2014. Accessed July 15, 2015.

Gutierrez, Jene. "Neil Dawson’s Suspended Sculptures Appear To Defy Gravity." Beautiful Decay. August 13, 2014. Accessed July 15, 2015. http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/08/13/neil-dawson/.

Hayman, Robert L., and Leland Ware, eds. Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.

"In Honor of a Patriot: Dedication and Unveiling of the Garfield Monument." The Morning News, May 31, 1895.

This is the original article from 1895; no author is noted in the newspaper.

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1976.

"Magic Carpet." Association for Public Art. 2014. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://associationforpublicart.org/magic-carpet/.

Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision. United States: Docurama, 2003. DVD.

Patrick, Willie, Thomas Baker, Nate Beasley, Michele Griffiths, Sophia Hanson, Traci Luckenbill, Catherine McCloskey, Olakunle Oludina, and Perry Price. "Second District Revitalization Plan." University of Delaware. Accessed July 31, 2015. http://www.udel.edu/ccrs/blueprint/Data and Information Resources/Final Plans/Second District.pdf.

Post, Chris. "Art, Scale, and the Memory of Tragedy: A Consideration of Public Art in Pleasant Hill, Missouri." Material Culture 43, no. 2 (2011): 43-58. Accessed July 11, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23145841.

"Project Row Houses." Project Row Houses. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://projectrowhouses.org/.

"Public Art 101." Americans for the Arts. Accessed July 11, 2015. http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/public-art.

Raffel, Jeffrey. "After the Court Order: The Changing Faces of School Desegregation in the Wilmington Metropolitan Area." Widener Law Symposium Journal 9, no. 1 (2002). Accessed July 12, 2015.

Rosen, Martin, and James Fisher. "Chicano Park and the Chicano Park Murals: Barrio Logan, City of San Diego, California." The Public Historian 23, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 91-111. Accessed August 7, 2015. ttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2001.23.4.91 .

Silver, Robert T., and Leigh Frederick. Outdoor Sculpture in Wilmington. Wilmington, Delaware: Wilmington Arts Commission, 1987.

"State of Delaware." School Profiles: Glasgow High School. 2015. Accessed July 31, 2015. http://profiles.doe.k12.de.us/SchoolProfiles/School/Default.aspx?checkSchool=392&districtCode=33.

"William McKinley Coffee Break Monument, Wilmington, Delaware." RoadsideAmerica.com. Accessed July 15, 2015. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/32290.

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