Black River High School has been awarded artwork through the Picturing America program, a free initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities that helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of the country’s great art directly to classrooms and libraries.

Black River language arts teacher Sandy Cato worked to get the award which includes 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great American art and a comprehensive resource book to help teachers use the artwork in core subjects.

A sample of the artwork is the 1940 Jacob Lawrence painting, Migration of the Negro, panel No. 57.