Professional Development for K-12 Educators: Fighters for Freedom

Join us to explore influential figures in African American civil rights and emancipation history through artist William H. Johnson’s Fighters for Freedom series on view now at the Gibbes Museum of Art. Discover two new digital teaching resources from the Smithsonian that you can use to de-code imagery and surface hidden stories in these paintings with your students.

Free for all educators

This series is sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Employees Community Fund of Boeing South Carolina the Gibbes Women’s Council, The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation, the Post and Courier Foundation, and Individual donors.