ADL x Blanton Museum
Exploring Civil Rights & Diversity Instructional Guides

These instructional guides are the result of an ongoing collaboration with educators from the Austin Independent School District and the Anti-Defamation League. Each guide features one work of art from the Blanton, discussion questions, and activities designed to engage young people with issues of community, identity, and voice with a goal of crating opportunities for campuses to develop No Place for Hate® coalitions.

Strand 1 - Inspiration to Act: Building Community

• Siphonophora, Thomas Glassford

• From That Day On, Ben Shahn

• The Broad, Ramiro Gomez

Strand 2 - Free to Be Me: Exploring Identity

• Synecdoche, Byron Kim

• We Belong Here, Tavares Strachan

• Skewered, Deborah Roberts

Strand 3 - Using Your Voice

• Parade, Mequitta Ahuja

• Esther Before Ahasuerus, Luca Cambiaso

• The Strangest Fruit, Vincent Valdez

Strand 4 - Power and Movement

• Barrio Flag, Manuel Gómez Cruz

• The 1920’s…The Migrants Cast their Ballots, from Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence, Jacob Lawrence

• General Moses and Sojourner (Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth), Charles White