Children's Book Press - Just Like Me

Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists. Edited by Harriet Rohmer
Other books illustrated by the artists in Just Like Me (see page 32 for an initial list or search the CBP website for updated information)

Bell, Julian. Five Hundred Self-Portraits. Phaidon 2000.

Baumbusch, Brigitte. The Many Faces of the Face (Art for Children Series). Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1999.

Just Like Me Artists Websites:
This is a partial list of websites that feature the work and words of artists from Just Like Me. Links through galleries are subject to change, so use your search engine to check for current information.

	Tomie Arai http://www.vkp.org/onsitecontent/artiststmts/tomie_arai.html http://www.printshop.org/artists/arai/arai1.html
	Enrique Chagoya http://www.segura.com/Chagoya.html
	Carmen Lomas Garza http://www.carmenlomasgarza.com/ http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/webzine/carmen1.htm
	Maya Christina Gonzalez http://www.mayagonzalez.com
	Nancy Hom http://www.aawaaart.com/Pages/V_artists/Hom.html
	George Littlechild http://www.willockandsaxgallery.com/twillock/littlec1.htm http://www.conexus.si.edu/teepee/changing/littlechild.htm
	Stephen Von Mason http://home.earthlink.net/~rubenrz/mag/current/mason/
	Rodolfo Morales http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_oaxaca_morales1.html http://artofoaxaca.com/rodolfodies.html
	Mira Reisberg http://www.mirareisberg.com/
	JoeSam. http://www.joesam.com/
	Elly Simmons http://www.ellysimmons.com/
	Daryl Wells http://www.etaoin.com/abc07.htm

Selected Self-Portraits
The following websites have high-quality images of artists' self-portraits. Many, but not all, also include biographical information about the artists or selected other works. In some cases, you may have to search the site for the self-portrait by title.

	Palmer Hayden, “The Janitor Who Paints”: http://www.stanford.edu/~tshih/Hayden.html
	Jacob Lawrence, “Self-Portrait,” 1977: http://jacoblawrence.org/art04.html (For more on this work and excellent resources on Jacob Lawrence, see http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/art/self_portrait.html)
	Jean Michel Basquiat, “Self-Portrait as a Heel Part Two”: http://www.artsky.com/artist/basquiat/basquiat.htm
	Vincent Van Gogh – selected self portraits: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/main_se.htm
	Frida Kahlo – selected self-portraits: http://members.aol.com/fridanet/artwork.htm
	Yolanda López, “Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe”: http://mati.eas.asu.edu/ChicanArte/html_pages/lopez11.html
	Richard Ray Whitman, “Man Form Indian Self”: http://www.vkp.org/artworks/26.jpg

Other Resources
“Lesson Plans – American Identity”
A series of lesson plans exploring racial and ethnic identity through art, with several lessons focused exclusively on self-portraiture. This curriculum comes from Visual Knowledge Products, the education and outreach program of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

	http://www.vkp.org/library.cfm?kid=8
	The Getty Museum's arts education resource page: http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/

Linda Fox, Bree Picower, and Carrie Secret participated in a Children's Book Press LitLinks project at Prescott Elementary School in the 2000-2001 academic year. Linda, Bree, and Carrie used Just Like Me to teach thematic units in African American history. Prescott serves a diverse group of students in West Oakland, California, and is nationally recognized for its innovative and culturally relevant curriculum and instruction.

Maya Christina Gonzalez serves as LitLinks Artist-in-Residence at Prescott Elementary School. Maya has illustrated eight books for Children's Book Press.

The 2000-2001 LitLinks project at Prescott Elementary school and This Guide for Teachers was made possible in part by the generous support of the California Arts Council.

Please share your own ideas for how to use Just Like Me in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.