Finding Meaning in the Commonplace
**include creative strategies
Sheltering in place
Overview:
Students will survey the shift from traditional elements and principles of art towards contemporary Creative Strategies as a new way to develop conceptual thinking and meaning through art.
Students will be engaging family and neighborhood members, a greater self, bringing that consciousness, those funds of knowledge, directly into the classroom as research projects, forms of journalism and multimedia portraiture including film projects in order to develop alternative narratives countering the ruling hegemony.
Generative Question:
Do we find our own story when we listen to another's?
What meaning do we encounter when intersecting with someone else's narrative?
Does that story become ours?
Understanding Goal(s):
Embedded Lessons in the Unit:
Performance of Understanding:
Closure:
Reflection Strategies:
Reflection Questions:
Vocabulary: Important words for building understanding and shared language
Materials: Art Materials and instructional materials
Equipment: Tools you use in instruction and art making
Performances of understanding
Students at Work for Animation: Step by step delineation of the lesson (Performances of understanding).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RM7ZpldxM&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY98b8onq9M
Closure:
Critique, discussions, exhibitions, performances, writing, new artwork
Reflection Tools and Techniques: (learning/thinking walls; journal entries; peer interviews; further art activities
Finding Meaning in the Commonplace
**include creative strategies
Sheltering in place
Overview:
Students will survey the shift from traditional elements and principles of art towards contemporary Creative Strategies as a new way to develop conceptual thinking and meaning through art.
Students will be engaging family and neighborhood members, a greater self, bringing that consciousness, those funds of knowledge, directly into the classroom as research projects, forms of journalism and multimedia portraiture including film projects in order to develop alternative narratives countering the ruling hegemony.
Generative Question:
Do we find our own story when we listen to another's?
What meaning do we encounter when intersecting with someone else's narrative?
Does that story become ours?
Understanding Goal(s):
- Students will be creating art projects based in postmodern conceptual hybrid creative strategies.
- Students will be employing 5 hybrid visual and conceptual strategies to explore contemporary topics: Juxtaposition, Scale, Material as Metaphor, Multiples, Hybridization.
- Art as Investigation- Students will be able to understand the art of others and their own artmaking, not as exercises, but as research that produces new visual and conceptual insights.
Embedded Lessons in the Unit:
- Drawing as a language to communicate higher conscious awareness
- Creating community by being of service
- Expanded notions of art as self empowerment.
- Designing new artistic methods outside traditional scope.
- Introduction of contemporary art practice.
- Finding self knowledge as primary source of content and truth
Performance of Understanding:
- Presentation of Creative Strategies.
- Conceptually establish a “Spiral Workshop”: curriculum based on generative themes, studio art projects, art as investigation.
- Choose a concept from examples on presentation.
- Make a Creative Strategies Map.
- Draw, paint, collage your idea in Research Workbook, 5 versions of chosen concept using 5 strategies, Juxtaposition, Scale, Material as Metaphor, Multiples, Hybridization.
- Drawings are a basis for a larger class discussion.
Closure:
- Research Workbook critique of 5 drawings based in 5 strategies, Juxtaposition, Scale, Material as Metaphor, Multiples, Hybridization.
- Extended research into other postmodern concepts and practices for future projects including engaging the public.
- Discussion of Creative Strategies practical use in terms of social justice strategies for public art.
Reflection Strategies:
- Group discussion.
- Nontraditional art exhibit.
- Extension by way of public service.
- Consider formless anonymous art practice.
Reflection Questions:
- Do we need the elements and principles of art when we can employ creative strategies instead?
- Do we need the 7/7 or are they now irrelevant based on your research? (See Creative Strategies page)
- Are Creative Strategies a stand-alone practice or do we still need the support of traditional conventions?
- Greeting at the door.
- Being polite to each other.
- Forgiving myself if I hurt someone’s feelings even after apologizing.
- Build and maintain relationships with diverse groups and individuals.
- Being polite to adults.
- Write about what makes you nervous, stressed out and fearful at school. Sharing with teacher and class at round table.
- Building relationship deposits with students.
- We are human fist before any label.
- Establish emotional and achievement goals with mentor/teacher.
- Problem solving as a group.
Vocabulary: Important words for building understanding and shared language
Materials: Art Materials and instructional materials
Equipment: Tools you use in instruction and art making
Performances of understanding
- Research Elder in RWB- Use cell phone as portable studio
- Interview, record
- Add notes, findings, images, words in RWB
- Choose image for subject
- Choose objects from home to add layers to animation
- Transpose interview into paper in both indigenous language and in English
- Choose paper size and creative strategy-collage, juxtaposition for example
- Transfer image via trace, projection or scaling up.
- Intro to projection
- Intro to scaling up technique
- Intro Using Stop Action Animation App.
- Photograph mark making step by step using Stop Action Animation App.
- Save images in phone or animation app
- Render Film and add audio
- Detail steps, findings, musings, further ideas in RWB
- Create paper pockets to hold biography
- Attached pockets and biographies
Students at Work for Animation: Step by step delineation of the lesson (Performances of understanding).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RM7ZpldxM&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY98b8onq9M
Closure:
Critique, discussions, exhibitions, performances, writing, new artwork
Reflection Tools and Techniques: (learning/thinking walls; journal entries; peer interviews; further art activities