Murals: Discovering Community Stories

The Community Discovered Technology Innovation Challenge Grant

Murals / Post Office Murals Special Interest Group (SIG)

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(All photos that appear on this web site were taken by Colette de Frey)

CD CONTACT PERSON:	NMAA CONTACT PERSON:
Colette de Frey	Woody Dowling

• PARTICIPATING TEACHERS: (Go to this page to see a summary of the unit plan each teacher is working on)
• Results of the Post Office Murals SIG
• Community Discovered Units Designed Around the 1930's Post Office Murals (these are also posted on the CD website):
• Exploring All Frontiers
• Grand Island History Through Murals
• Sunset Hills: A True Community Discovered
• The Big Pictures of Nebraska
• The Roads Diverge and . . . the Essence is the Journey!
• Interested in joining the Murals/Post Office Murals Interest Group?

• Visit the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) Post Office Murals Resources. (Go to their SEARCH and enter the keywords "post office" or "mural")
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• Visit photos of the 1930's taken by the photographer Dorothea Lange at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden.
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• Want to see some post office murals located in Iowa? Check out the Iowa Post Office Mural Site.
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• Post Office murals in the Virgin Islands? Visit these two located in the post office in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.
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• Baxter Springs, Kansas boasts a delightful mural depicting the history of their community. (This is not a post office mural, but is on the outside of a bank!)
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• Visit this site and view a student created mural on the island of St. Croix which visually represents their community.
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• St. Joseph, Missouri boasts a series of 12 post office murals from the 1930's located in their downtown post office. The series depicts the history of the city. One of the panels in particular was quite controversial when it was installed!
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• The National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. held an exhibit last summer focusing on the Post Office Murals of the New Deal Era. Click here to see photos of the exhibit.
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• Click here to see sculpture and reliefs that appear on the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington, D.C. as a result of the W.P.A. project.
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• Post Office Murals in Nebraska - Go to this site to view the post office murals in Nebraska and information about each mural.
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• Post Office Murals in Texas - Go to this site to view some post office murals in Texas with information about each mural.
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• Curriculum Tie-Ins -- Want to use the post office murals in your curriculum? Here are some ideas!
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• Related Web Resources - Need an Internet site dealing with murals or post office murals? Click here!
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• Other Resources - Books, magazines dealing with post office murals.
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• Focus Group Report Format - Any teacher or group of teachers who choose to work on a project incorporating murals or the 1930's post office murals, must submit a focus group report using this format.