[LM_NET] Picturing John James Audubon Summer Institute

["Hornick, Alita Marie" <ahornick@INDIANA.EDU>]

John James Audubon was America’s first painter of international stature.  He was 
also one of America’s first important nature writers and most accomplished 
travelers, crisscrossing the continent, from Labrador to New Orleans, from the 
Hudson to the Missouri River.  No one had seen quite as much, and no one was 
equally talented as a writer and as a visual artist. Audubon’s life-sized paintings 
of Birds of America not only changed the tradition of natural history illustration, 
but they also had a lasting impact on the development of ornithology and bird 
conservation.  As a nature writer, Audubon deserves to be mentioned in the same 
breath with writers more securely anchored in the canon of American nature writing 
such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson.  Full-time 
K-12 teachers, school librarians or administrators who want to find out more about 
Audubon are invited to apply to a Summer Institute at Indiana University 
Bloomington, Picturing John James Audubon, sponsored by the National Endowment for 
the Humanities.

The Institute takes place from Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 31, 2009, on the 
beautiful campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, close to some of 
the sites where Audubon began his lifelong journey to paint and describe American 
birds and animals.  Assisted by internationally known experts, the director of the 
Institute, Christoph Irmscher (English, Indiana University), and core faculty 
members Alan Braddock (Art History, Temple University) and Joel Silver (The Lilly 
Library, Indiana University) seek to inspire teachers with a variety of backgrounds 
(English, History, Art, Biology) to incorporate American art into their curricula, 
to stimulate them to pursue research on their own, and to further their career 
goals.  The program of the Institute also includes trips to the Audubon Museum in 
Henderson, Kentucky, and the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

Participants selected for the Institute are eligible for a stipend.  For further 
information, check out the Institute’s website 
http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/PicturingJohnJamesAudubon.html.  You may also send an 
email to ahornick@indiana.edu<mailto:ahornick@indiana.edu> or call 812-855-8226.

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