This National Endowment for the Humanities K-12 Educator Institute is a one-week program that takes key instances of art production in South Asia from the past 2000 years to explore the cultural mixing, syncretism, and hybridity that shaped the region’s pluralistic history. The goal of the program is to offer an indispensable toolkit of skills for visual analysis and interpretation that can be used to teach South Asia’s history in dynamic and creative ways. Led by art historians, historians, and museum curators, this week of lectures, discussions, and practicums will allow participants to generate the depth and context required to teach South Asian history through its visual arts. We will also spend a day at the San Diego Museum of Art for a hands-on study of South Asian paintings. Educators will return to their classrooms ready to engage their students through an exploration of the visual arts.

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