Artistic Risk

Why would an artist risk their comfort or safety to create?  Here's a warmup that challenges students to answer that question:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11A3QlmAGyT9hui4uDe3diQvMgkqL-J_mS8uJyloK2oQ/edit?usp=sharing

Wayang

Next week's Social Studies and Visual Art mashup...

Access, use, and share the warmup here!

Get a piece of sketchbook paper from the gray shelf.  Today we will be watching three videos on Wayang, Chinese Shadow Puppets, and the Asian Puppet Theatre.  While the videos play, identify at 20 designs and shapes that you find interesting and replicate, draw, them on the piece of sketchbook paper.  Ensure that your name is in the upper and place in the blue box when the video is complete.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Rina Banerjee and Mythology

A new warmup!

Visit this link for the warmup to use and share!

“Rina Banerjee's art is a quixotic universe of gods and monsters. She manipulates swans' wings, luminous beads, light bulbs and dribbles of red paint into sculptural assemblages that look like shrines, or religious offerings left for an unknown deity. It barely seems surprising that a catalogue for a recent exhibition began with the words: ‘Once upon a time in a land far away, where the wild things are …’ “ -Jessica Lack

mythology-a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition

Read the quote from Jessica Lack, review the definition for mythology, and watch the video featuring Rina Banerjee.  On a piece of scratch paper, using a Perfect 3 Sentence Answer, explain what you think Rina Banerjee means when she uses the term mythology to describe her artwork.  Place in the blue basket when complete.

The Black Arch

Blog with Warmup and Resources

Poni

 

Next week is the work of Hilda Palafox.  Use or share the warmup: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10dcWyHEe9XYAry5qaMCzQYB300rLNBQQ83zSCNfA1ho/edit?usp=sharing

Os Gemeos and Collaboration

The "Twins" are always my favorite way to discuss collaboration.  Check out this warmup:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ifKqhiCnqfXpu2HGUSEreQ4CfUQd5FLTSFTw3HUUaFs/edit?usp=sharing

Kenojuak Ashevak

New Warmup on Inuit Art and the process of Kenojuak Ashevak:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tziFjOrf1b6-XlRLycSWquSYx-Yz45j9EcTWLHSZzJI/edit?usp=sharing

Catch the Rabbit

Blog with Directions and Resources

 

 

Sub Plans

Mayan Art History-Interesting Shapes

Blog and All Resources

Peru and Incan History

Blog With All Resources

 

Tuesday Thoughts-September 4

Tuesday Thoughts-August 14

Montezuma's Headdress

A new warmup for our first week back.  Going to continue to focus on integrating Social Studies into our Thursday warmups.

 

Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century, feathers of the resplendent quetzal, cotinga, roseate spoonbill, squirrel cuckoo, kingfisher; wood, fibres, paper, cotton, leather, gold, gilded bronze, h. 116, w. 175 

Directions:
Watch the provided video.  While listening to the posted song, using a Perfect 3 Sentence Answer, describe how it might be different seeing this headdress moving on a dancer compared to seeing the headdress behind glass in a museum.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=Q_Lp76ZkDE0 

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5LY8qzwLk 

Link to Warmup for Classroom Use:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r9AU-bQBHIbDx2ojA0BFqNTYuV4i5Ac13LguWiKNsyg/edit?usp=sharing

Types of Government Continued

With ongoing testing I've definitely fallen behind on my blog, YouTube, and curriculum development.  We jumped back in this week by introducing warmups that I created to address types of government.  We discussed the proletariat and communism by viewing and analyzing  Vladimir Pchelin's "Lenin Assassination Attempt".

You can check out the warmup HERE, see all of the warmups at this SITE, and hear all the details by watching my VIDEO (coming today).

As always, feel free to reuse, share, and change to fit your purposes.

Types of Government Visual Art Warmups

I always feel that Social Studies and Visual Art are the easiest subjects to integrate.  They connect so closely addressing issues of culture, history, and how our world works.  I really wanted to create some warmups that could be completed in the Social Studies classroom but the State Standards for Social Studies are almost as vague as the State Standards for Visual Arts.  One of our wonderful Social Studies teachers helped me by sharing her curriculum and I thought I would start with a series on types of government.  Feel free to use, share, alter for your own purposes.  I will be adding more to the list as I go.  I'd like to come up with two for each of the following types of government.  Check out all of the warmups HERE.

Design Bootcamp

Every field and content area has it's own vocabulary.  Learners need to have a grasp of content specific vocabulary to successfully navigate the curriculum.  But really, who wants to spend art class copying definitions?  Most of my students have never had an art class and if we focus on formalism they'll never take another.  I do need students to be able to discuss their work and the work of other artists with each other and me.  I implemented Design Bootcamp as our introductory unit in each class.  It's a 2-3 day, focused, activity that helps students collect written and visual definitions.  We get in there, get what we need, and get out.  Students then have a collection of resources they can use throughout the class.  I've created a page with all of the resources and processes I use.  Feel free to use, change, and share.

Design Bootcamp

Circuits, Mondrian, Fractions, and On to Degas

It's testing season and I'm not just the art teacher but our building's technology coach.  It's the type of job that you never knew you didn't want.  In all actuality, I'm pretty good at it and it's not a complete nightmare.  But, with state testing it's required me to be out of the classroom a great deal and now I'm in the proctor's seat for the next 5 days.  I always take my absences and changes in the schedule as an opportunity to do something cross-curricular.  I like to squeeze this into my curriculum at least once a quarter.  Check out this lesson blog for ideas on how to combine circuitry, Mondrian, Degas, and fraction practice.

Ciruits, Mondrian, Fractions, and On to Degas

I missed my students and classroom but this was a great way to keep students engaged, studying art and technology, and out of trouble.

I'm really looking forward to being back with my students to help them create connections between all the different activities that they completed.

Where is my blog going?

I've been doing a great deal of thinking lately about my online presence and how I want to share my work as an art educator.  I love sharing lessons, activities, and tips on being successful in the art classroom.  I hate including standards.  I feel like a great number of my posts look more like a lesson plan I would submit to an administrator rather than an activity I'm sharing with other teaching artists.  Be prepared for some changes but expect to see more videos, blogs, and resources on great activities you can implement in your classroom now.

Week 26-Vihls Personal Creativity and Interests-Visual Art CDE

Week 26

Thursday-7th Grade Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create

2.  Restructure and apply the technical skills and processes required to achieve desired results in producing works of art

A.  Research and communicate personal ideas and interests in works or art

Objective:  Students will review the artwork of Vihls and his sources of inspiration as guiance when explaining personal ideas and interests in their own artwork

Warmup 

“Lisbon, Portugal based artist Vhils has been working around the idea of permanence, and the evolution of urban centers, for over a decade. From street poster collages to literally drilling portraits onto the sides of buildings, he created a conceptual body of work that not only challenges the idea of removal, but creates a visual identity to the city that defies traditional mural characteristics. In a way, he is reminding the viewer of the things that can be eradicated, and that the things we leave behind, physically or emotionally, have a place in the world.”  

“Much of what Vhils showed me were extraordinary works, based on ideas of permanence in the cities that he has either lived in or worked in, and the unique ways he combines these experiences into canvases, cement pieces, styrofoam works and even new works on old doors that are the standouts of the show.”

-Juxtapoz

  

Directions:  Read the two posted quotes and review the artwork by artist Vhils.  Consider what inspires his artwork.  Using a Perfect 3 Sentence Answer, on a piece of scratch paper, explain what personal interests and ideas of your own inspire the artwork that you make.  This will be your ticket out.

Warmup

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/184WlK6eOvmb7vX2fupT6lTozYVXGVxKueofZvj95QB4/edit?usp=sharing

Week 20
Monday: Kindness  Headspace
Tuesday:  Civil War Valentine-https://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween56/how-make-authentic-civil-war-valentine/
Wednesday:  Vocabulary