How can we guide student inquiry of identity through the arts?  Explore the themes of identity, community, and home in this Learning Lab collection based on works of art displayed in Freer and Sackler's exhibition My Iran: Six Women Photographers  (August 10, 2019–February 9, 2020).  Students will reflect on their identities and feelings of home through an art activity that utilizes the metaphor of a suitcase, a variation of creating a self-portrait or identity artifact. 

This Learning Lab collection includes teaching strategies, object inquiry questions for students to complete, and a lesson plan to create an identity artifact.

DCPS Visual Arts Framework:

• Arc: Identity
  
• Theme:  Identity across cultures/civilization
  
• Technique: mixed media, documentation
• Final Product: create an identity artifact