High School Studio WorkshopsPhotographer Gordon Parks: The Power of the PictureNational Gallery of Art | 2018 – 2019

High School Studio WorkshopsPhotographer Gordon Parks: The Power of the PictureHigh school, grades 9 – 12 or equivalent

High School Studio Workshops combine an in-depth look

at works of art in the galleries with behind-the-scenes access

to the Education Studio, where students will create a related

art project.

Photographer Gordon Parks: The Power of the Picture

Learn about pioneering African American photographer

Gordon Parks and how he made his name representing

social injustices: racism, poverty, and economic inequality.

Create a work of art related to social justice issues, inspired

by current or historical events.

Workshops take place in December 2018 and January –

February 2019. Register online at nga.gov/highschool.

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front: Gordon Parks, Washington, D.C. Government charwoman, July 1942, Prints and Photographs Division,

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. © Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph

left: Gordon Parks, Boys Looking in Car Window, Harlem, August 1943, Photographs and Prints Division,

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden

Foundations. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation | right: Gordon Parks, Life

Magazine, Fur Jacket, Life, October 18, 1948, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Corcoran

Gallery of Art