Who Are We? 

I.B. Unit of Inquiry

An inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means to be human. 

The color screenprint depicts four dark skinned figures walking past a construction site—likely a family. The man is dressed in a black suit, black shoes, yellow tie, and tan hat. The woman wears a red and white dress, yellow jacket, and red cap. The little girl stands to the left of mother, holding her hand. She wears a yellow dress, white tights, brown shoes, and a red cap. A small boy wears brown pants, tan shoes, a yellow shirt, and blue jacket. He stands to the right of the father and holds his hand.  <br /><br />
In the background, there are three men working at the construction site. There are two men in blue jumpsuits, one has dark skin and the other white. A third dark skinned man wears a gray jumpsuit and holds a saw. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Jacob Lawrence 1974" in pencil.
Jacob Lawrence
Builders (The Family)
screenprint on paper
34 in x 25 3/4 in (86.36 cm x 65.41 cm);29 15/16 in x 22 1/8 in (76.04 cm x 56.2 cm);38 3/4 in x 28 in (98.43 cm x 71.12 cm)
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
Prentiss Taylor
Macedonia A.M.E.
lithograph on paper
9 9/16 in x 13 ⅜ in (24.29 cm x 33.97 cm)
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration, New Deal art project
This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground. &nbsp;Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Patrick Nagatani
Japanese Children's Day Carp Banners, Paguate Village, Jackpile Mine Uranium Tailings, Laguna Pueblo Reservation, New Mexico
dye destruction print on paper
16 ⅛ in x 20 1/16 in (40.96 cm x 50.96 cm)
Gift of Beverly Baker in memory of Morris D. Baker
Elliott Erwitt
Pennsylvania Dutch and Adidas, Santa Cruz, U.S.A., from "Recent Developments"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in. x 11 in. ( 35.5 cm x 27.9 cm )
Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin
Portrait of an elderly couple in a living room adorned with religious icons.
Walker Evans
Untitled
gelatin silver print on paper
11 in x 14 in (27.9 cm x 35.6 cm);18 1/8 in x 22 1/8 in (46.04 cm x 56.2 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
Oak panel with screen print; signed K.Haring 88 along lower right edge.
Keith Haring
Art Attack
screenprint on oak panel
30 in x 30 in x 2 in (76.2 cm x 76.2 cm x 5.08 cm);30 in x 29 15/16 in x 2 in (76.2 cm x 76.04 cm x 5.08 cm)
Gift of Margaret I. McIntosh
Bernard Schardt
Girl Sewing
woodcut on paper
13 15/16 in x 11 ⅛ in (35.4 cm x 28.26 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
A drawing of a woman moving to the right, her right arm extended over her head and out of the frame, her left arm extended upward to her left. 
Abraham Walkowitz
Isadora Duncan
pen, watercolor, and graphite on paper
14 1/8 in x 8 9/16 in (35.88 cm x 21.75 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 3/16 in (56.2 cm x 46.2 cm)
Gift of Abraham Walkowitz
Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almond shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.
Vili (Kongo)
Power Figure
wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, and fiber cord
40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm);40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm)
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
Elizabeth Olds
Crabbing
lithograph on paper
14 3/10 in x 11 in (36.35 cm x 27.94 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Robert Thom
The Era of Antibiotics, from "The History of Medicine"
1947 – 1957
oil | canvas
Collection of the University of Michigan Health System, Gift of Pfizer Inc.
UMHS.44
Hasegawa Mitsunobu
A Young Woman Teaching a Boy to Read
monochrome woodblock print on paper
9 3/4 in. x 13 5/8 in. ( 24.77 cm x 34.61 cm )
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker

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