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to rescue works of art erased from history. If you don’t, the next one to go missing might be you.

It’s time to break the frame.

erything you need to

use your Clear Sight.

everything you need to use your Clear Sight.

It is the ability to observe what is in front of you without being inﬂuenced by what you are told to believe.

It is a power that allows you to encounter the artist behind a work of art.

Imagination Honesty Open-Mindedness

When looking at art, there is no wrong answer. Respect everyone’s voice viewer, the artist, and the subject).

Clear Sight Method.

on’t look at the label or title of the ork.

at the art. Look at it from top to bottom and left to right, m to top and right to left. Breathe and focus on your h. Count to twenty (silently) before you go on.

nswer this question as quickly as can: What was the ﬁrst thing you ced about the artwork?

In the Clear Sight Method, it’s important to focus on what you actually see and feel rather than what you’re told about a work of art. Look at the lines. Are there straight lines or curved lines? Are there more straight lines than curved? Is there movement in the lines, or are they stagnant? What shapes can you see? What colors do you see? Are the colors light or dark? Are parts of the painting lighter or darker than other parts? What forms do you see? Are the shapes flat or do they appear to take up space? What textures do you see? Do you see texture in the paint (clay, stone, etc.), or has the artist created the illusion of a texture? What is the space like? Does the artwork seem to show a large or small space? Does the painting give an illusion of depth?

4. How does your body feel when looking at the artwork? Starting at the top of your head and going down toward your feet, let your body tell you how it is feeling. Do you feel tension? Excitement? Happiness? Boredom?

5. What can your other senses tell you? Use your imagination to connect with your senses. You

would it feel? What would be the temperature or re? What would it taste like?

hat happens if you imagine that are part of the artwork?

his artwork captures one moment. t do you think happens the ment after this, and why?

ook at the title and the name of the t. Read about the artist’s life. Does ange how you feel about the ork?

that you know more about the artist, does this change you see? (It doesn’t make your original impressions g.)

ow, if you are in a museum or ery, look for who is not there.

ou see artists who are women? ou see work by artists who are Black, Indigenous and/or people of color? Who else might be left out? do you think that is?

a Bonheur

, CE 1822 - 1899 onheur achieved worldwide fame for painting tic, lifelike animal portraits, and for refusing to live entional life.

h Mapps Douglass

elphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 6 - 1882 ucator, anti-slavery activist, and writer, she is the rican American female artist to have signed one of works. She helped found the Philadelphia Female avery Society and was the ﬁrst Black woman to the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania.

igaldi-Nanna

odern-day Iraq), 6th Century BCE ylonian princess and powerful priestess of the Moon nnigaldi-Nanna created the ﬁrst museum to house s from past empires.

ia Sibylla Merian

Roman Empire (modern-day Germany) and Dutch lic (modern-day Netherlands), CE 1647 - 1717 enager, she was fascinated by the life cycles of ﬂies. She documented her observations in detailed ings in her published works about the insects of ern Europe and Suriname.

stine de Pisan

, CE 1364 - about 1430 port her mother and children, Christine became a

woman known to have been a professional writer.

Su Hui 苏蕙 China (modern-day Gansu Province), 4th Century CE (Six Dynasties Period) A poet whose husband was sent into exile for political reasons, she created an elaborate palindrome poem and wove it into a piece of brocade.

Royal Collection, UK. oung Teacher by Rebecca Solomon (British, 1861), featuring the model ton. Tate Britain and Museum of the Home (London, UK). rait of artist Rosa Bonheur by Anna Klumpke (American, 1898). The itan Museum of Art (New York). tograph of sculptor Edmonia “Wildﬁre” Lewis, by Augustus Marshall n, 1870). Private collection. -portrait at age 12 by Anna Waser (Swiss, 1691). Kunsthaus Zürich and). dy Su Hui and Her Verse Puzzle, by an unknown artist (Ching Dynasty, 1, based on an earlier story). The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New

iature depicting a female artist creating a self-portrait in the women’s from the manuscript Khamsa-e-Nizami, British Library MS 12208 Empire, now Pakistan, 1590s). British Library (London, UK). -Portrait in a Straw Hat (detail) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (French, tional Gallery (London, UK). The Chess Game by Sophonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1555). Muzeum we w Poznaniu (Poznań, Poland). clla (Woman’s Mantle), created by indigenous Inka weavers (Peru, Century). The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). hotograph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln y an unknown photographer. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, University (Washington, D.C.). trait of sister Anna Vladimirovna Rozanova, by Olga Rozanova (1911 or katerinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Russia). te medieval illustration of the ancient Roman painter Iaia creating a ait, from the manuscript De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccaccio, tist known as the Master of the Coronation of the Virgin (1403). que nationale de France (Paris, France). hristine de Pisan with Queen Isabeau, from The Book of the Queen, 431 by Christine de Pisan, with illuminations by an unknown artist 1410-1414). British Library (London, UK). ortrait of Maria Sibylla Merian by Jacob Marrel (German, 1679). seum Basel (Swi erland). black bu erﬂy with the inscription “A token of love from me, to awn by Sarah Mapps Douglass in Amy Matilda Cassey's album Library Company of Philadelphia.

Wisconsin (www.daretodreamtheatre.org), Off the Page in Brooklyn, NY (www.offthepageeducation.org), and Ovations NWA in Arkansas (www.ovationsnwa.org).

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