The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State during the latter nineteenth century and documents the dramatic impact of the Gold Rush on the American imagination. Among the throngs of gold-seekers in California were artists, many self-taught, others formally trained, and their arrival produced an outpouring of artistic works that provide insights into Gold Rush events, personages, and attitudes. The best-known painting of the Gold Rush era, C.C. Nahl's Sunday Morning in the Mines (1872), was created nearly two decades after gold fever had subsided. By then the Gold Rush's mythic qualities were well established, and new allegories—particularly the American belief in the rewards of hard work and enterprise—can be seen on Nahl's canvas. Other works added to the image of California as a destination for ambitious dreamers, an image that prevails to this day. In bringing together a range of art and archival material such as artists' diaries and contemporary newspaper articles, The Art of the Gold Rush broadens our understanding of American culture during a memorable period in the nation's history.

Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.

Robert Penn Warren once wrote West is where we all plan to go some day, and indeed, images of the westernmost United States provide a mythic horizon to American cultural landscape. While the five states (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawai'i) which touch Pacific waters do share commonalities within the history of westward expansion, the peoples who settled the region—and the indigenous peoples they encountered—have created spheres of culture that defy simple categorization. This wide-ranging reference volume explores the marvelously eclectic cultures that define the Pacific region. From the music and fashion of the Pacific northwest to the film industry and surfing subcultures of southern California, from the vast expanses of the Alaskan wilderness to the schisms between native and tourist culture in Hawa'ii, this unprecedented reference provides a detailed and fascinating look at American regionalism along the Pacific Rim. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures is the first rigorous reference collection on the many ways in which American identity has been defined by its regions and its people. Each of its eight regional volumes presents thoroughly researched narrative chapters on Architecture; Art; Ecology & Environment; Ethnicity; Fashion; Film & Theater; Folklore; Food; Language; Literature; Music; Religion; and Sports & Recreation. Each book also includes a volume-specific introduction, as well as a series foreword by noted regional scholar and former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William Ferris, who served as consulting editor for this encyclopedia.

The ultimate guide to NFTs: Join the NFT Gold Rush and claim your first Free NFT here KEY FEATURES ● Get familiar with the Fintech and legal background of NFTs in general. ● Discover various NFT marketing strategies from professionals to promote your NFTs. ● A step-by-step guide that will help you to create a NFT from scratch. DESCRIPTION NFTs or non-fungible tokens are digital assets based on decentralized ledger blockchain technology. If you want a deeper understanding of NFT ownership and the fintech that lies beneath it, then this book is for you. “NFT Gold Rush” explains everything you need to know about NFTs. The book commences with an introduction as to why NFTs are a trend today and the observation that this trend will only become more robust because of the rapid development of the web beyond web 3.0 where private ownership in cyberspace becomes possible. It then explains how blockchain and cryptocurrency can kickstart the process of tokenization and minting so that NFTs can be created. Once this is established, the book helps you look at transactions that can be done with the NFTs as a new type class of digital financial asset. Moving on, the book explains a step-by-step analysis of how to use IT in the creation of NFTs. The book helps you get familiar with the entire minting process, including setting up your own minting page. From there, the book will help you learn how to place your NFT on the marketplace where you can sell and trade your NFTs. In addition, the book also explores different marketing, selling, and pricing strategies in case your NFT is not immediately the most popular thing in the market. Towards the end of the book, it is discussed how the development of the fintech-legalverse will eventually integrate with the metaverse leading to a new direction in web development, where private ownership colonization of cyberspace has become possible. A democratization of the web will thus get a chance for real success, a place where you will be in charge as an owner, and where you are no longer just a ‘user’. After reading this NFT handbook you will be able to create and sell your own NFTs. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Discover different marketplaces for exchanging and selling your NFTs. ● Learn how to create an NFT collection. ● Understand how to develop a selling and pricing strategy for your NFT. ● Identify, manage, and mitigate security issues in NFTs. ● Understand why NFTs play a crucial role in developing the Metaverse. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for everyone interesting in creating and selling NFTs. Individuals and NFT artists who are struggling to price, market, or sell their NFTs will find this book resourceful. New and innovative business ideas that become possible with the help of NFTs are introduced in this book. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. NFT Ownership 3. NFT Transactions 4. NFT Smart Contracts 5. NFT Tech Tools 6. Technical Skills for Creating NFTs 7. How to Sell Your NFT 8. The NFT Market Place 9. NFT Collections 10. Marketing Your NFTs 11. NFT Risk and Security 12. The NFT Metaverse 13. Staking Your First NFT Claim

Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.

This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability of Aboriginal art’s meanings in different settings. It reveals that this mutability is a consequence of the fact that a range of governmental, activist and civil society projects have appropriated the art’s vitality and metonymic power in national public culture, and that Aboriginal art is as much a phenomenon of visual and commercial culture as it is an art movement. Throughout these examinations, Fisher traces the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have crystallised around the Aboriginal art movement and which manifest the ethical conundrums that underpin the settler state condition.