Click below to download a PowerPoint presentation of the exhibition and Common Core Georgia Performance Standards.

Use this resource to prepare your students for a visit to see this exhibition or as follow-up after your visit. This exhibition can complement your K–12 curricula in language arts, social studies, and/or visual arts.

Dial's journey as an artist has been extraordinary.

Project The Stars of Everything or any work of art from the PowerPoint and use the following strategy as an introduction to looking at and discussing works of art.

Dial drew inspiration for this piece from a traditional still-life painting by American artist William Merritt Chase, which he had seen in the nearby Birmingham Museum of Art.

In this piece, the image of a torn and ravaged U.S. flag symbolizes the struggle underlying American history and the quest for freedom, liberty, and equality.

This is a tribute to the Southern quilt-making tradition.

Describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating.

This piece pays homage to African American quilt-makers from the rural South.

These books can support your lessons on Thornton Dial and folk art.

This painting is an ode to the persistence of human life.

This epic work depicts the evolution of life.

The striped tiger here, made of twisted mop strings, represents Dr. King on the day of his assassination.

A list of key vocabulary terms.