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This teacher resource guide helps students rethink traditional concepts of portraiture, identity, and representation. It is a tool to support an inclusive classroom environment and to complement teaching anti-bullying, diversity, gender expansiveness, and race as a social construct.

Using contemporary portraiture to explore identity, this guide includes works of art from artists of color, women, LGBTQ+ artists, gender non-binary artists, and those who defy classification altogether—all of whom are featured in Show Me As I Want To Be Seen, on view Feb 7–Jul 7, 2019.

Included in the resource are: an introduction, guiding questions for viewing, 10 selected images from the exhibition, artists’ biographies and statements, suggested hands-on activities for students, and tips for a concluding discussion.

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Show Me as I Want to Be Seen is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum and curated by Natasha Matteson, Assistant Curator.

Support for this exhibition is generously provided by Suzanne and Elliott Felson; Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt; Gaia Fund; Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund; Dorothy R. Saxe; Susan and Michael Steinberg; Bavar Family Foundation; Nellie and Max Levchin; Phyllis Moldaw; Roselyne Chroman Swig; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Judith and Robert Aptekar; Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg; Rosanne and Al Levitt; Joyce B. Linker; Douglas D. Mandell, Alexandra Moses; Eta and Sass Somekh; Ruth Stein; Toole Family Charitable Foundation; Marilyn and Murry Waldman; Kendra and Tom Kasten; Pacific Heights Plastic Surgery; Barbara Ravizza and John Osterweis; David Saxe; and Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston, The Shenson Foundation, in memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson.

School and Teacher Programs are made possible by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Leadership support comes from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and The Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund. Patron support is provided by the The Bavar Family Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation, the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, the Toole Family Charitable Foundation, and the Ullendorff Memorial Foundation.