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We made a tiny plastic reproduction of Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros 🦏

Here’s what we used:
• Shrinkable plastic sheets
• Printed image
• Pen
• Roll of artist tape

Open Access image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515, woodcut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

List of 10 exhibitions currently on view in the US: Beyond the Object: Women in Abstraction Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Bold Women Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870–1930 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Modern Women: Visionary Artists New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Women at War North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Women in Focus Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

For International Women's Day (March 8, 2025),
a selection of exhibitions currently on view in the US.

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View of a gridded group of photos of 12 egg-related objects: 1) James Sowerby, A Bird's Egg, n.d., watercolor over graphite. Yale Center for British Art; 2) "Baby in Egg" Still Bank, early 20th century, lead, pigment. Minneapolis Institute of Art; 3) Denis Martinot (designer), attributed to Theodor de Bry (decoration), Engraved Egg Watch, 1590–1600, silver, steel, and rock crystal. The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4) Attributed to Peter Carl Fabergé and House of Fabergé, Lapis Lazuli Easter Egg, ca. 1885–90, gold, enamel, lapis lazuli, pearls, diamonds, rubies. The Cleveland Museum of Art; 5) William Blake, At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell, 1793, etching and engraving. From For Children: The Gates of Paradise, pl. 8. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; 7) Ira Blount, Handmade Wooden Egg, 1992, wood. Anacostia Community Museum, Gift of Ira Blount 8) Paul Wolff, Egg in Cup, ca. 1930, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy of Getty’s Open Content Program; 9) Egg, 1865, colored egg. The Art Institute of Chicago; 10) Odilon Redon, The Egg, 1885, lithograph. The Art Institute of Chicago 11) Netsuke of Bird in an Egg, 19th century, ivory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and 12) Egg, late 18th–early 19th century, glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Looking for a dozen eggs?

Belatedly added! Sorry we missed your comment!

Hi Colleen! We're currently building a digital exhibition system.

When it launches next year, we'd love for your students to take a look and share feedback!

Thanks, we'll add it to the pack!

Thanks Douglas!

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The French artist Maurice Quentin De La Tour points at a portrait of his glasses-wearing cat on an easel.

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🖼️: John Kay, The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter (detail), 1813, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Thanks so much! We can't wait to add more museums!

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