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Connections : : Stories of Community
Big Idea Culture: Art is a cultural carrier; it is shaped by cultural conditions and reveals them.
Essential Question When artists come together from different communities, how do they choose to tell the stories of their culture and community?
Objectives
TLW communicate visual ideas through the purposeful selection of media techniques and processes, subject matter, and theme.
TLW collaborate to solve a series of visual problems using a pastiche of word and image to emphasize personal experience and cultural value.
TLW analyze and visually interpret the influences of art and design upon their immediate culture, and the time period in which they live.
TLW utilize a combination of technology with hand art processes to promote connections between different communities.
GLE
Strand I: Product/Performance 1. Select and apply two-dimensional media, techniques, and process to communicate ideas and solve challenging visual art problems. (FA 1) 2. Communicate ideas about subject matter and themes in artworks created for various purposes. (FA 1)
Strand II: Elements and Principles 1. Select and use principles of art for their effect in communicating ideas through artwork. (FA 2)
Strand III: Artistic Perceptions 1. Investigate the nature of art and discuss responses to artworks. (FA 3) 2. Analyze and evaluate art using art vocabulary. (FA 3)
Strand IV: Interdisciplinary Connections 1. Explain the connections between Visual Art and CA, Math, Science or Social Studies. (FA 4)
Strand V: Historical and Cultural Contexts 1. Compare and contrast artworks from different historical time periods and/or cultures. (FA 5)
Process & Activity
- Video conference connects two different communities •
- The world shrinks: Long distance meeting of minds •
- Discussion and brainstorming: a “collision” of two communities •
- Digital connections to the collection •
- Blogging and/or Podcasting to create a sense of combined community and to keep development dynamic/organic •
- Collaborative development of ideas/Individual development of discreet artifacts •
- Collaborative development of book or video
Artifact •
- Blog/Website: documents the process and development of the project •
- Podcast: connects to the collection •
- Book and/or Video: documents the process, the philosophy and finished artworks; compares/contrasts project with works from the collection; comments upon conclusions and the outcome •
- Installation or exhibition: highlights the project •
- Artwork: created in collaboration across communities; incorporates a pastiche of word and image; informed by works in the collection and ideas from the world of contemporary artmaking.
Big Idea Identity: Individual and cultural identities are constructed and revealed through art.
Essential Question When artists work in different communities, how do they choose to interpret their own social identities?
Big Idea Society: Art is a form of social commentary, with social, political, and economic conditions.
Essential Question When artists from different communities come together, how do they choose to interpret what they find?
Big Idea Community: Different communities often define and interpret art in different ways.
Essential Question When artists come together from different communities, how do they choose to tell the stories of their culture and community?
Big Idea Place: Context and point-of-view are important to understanding the interactions and influences that define the identity of a community.
Essential Question How does “place” influence the interpretation of an artist’s sense of identity?
Big Idea Visual Culture: Communities are often defined by the visual influences of their world.
Essential Question How do artists use word and image to define their world? How does the combination of word and image influence the interpretation of meaning in art?
Big Idea Autobiography: An exploration of self is deeply revealing of our connections to community and culture.
Essential Question How do artists use word and image to define themselves?
Notes: This program could be an exciting approach for students as they learn how to better understand art and respond in a visual/critical way to their own community identity. As I brainstormed this weekend, I identified numerous points of symbolic departure that might be particularly rich avenues for exploration: •
- Race, gender, and other issues of social or political nature. •
- Environmental and geo-political concerns. •
- Eccentricities of community. •
- Visual culture. •
- Memory and recollection. •
- Identity of place, beyond the landscape. •
- The cathartic qualities of art and poetry.
Metaphor might also be an interesting visual filter. For example: •
- Bridges are both literal and metaphorical symbols of connectivity. •
- Gates and doors offer passage to another way of knowing… but one typically needs a key to pass. •
- Roads are literal and symbolic pathways.
As I think about this, two themes continue to recur: (1) sense of place and (2) cultural/community/social identity. A quick survey of the Bloch Building left me with a lot of great connections to these two themes:
Sense of Place
Thiebaud Wyeth
Keith Jacobshagen
Neil Welliver
Fairfield Porter
Diebenkorn
Estes Dennis
Oppenheim
Roger Brown
William T. Wiley
Radcliffe Bailey
Freilicher Alex Katz
Rackstraw Downes
Robert Cottingham
Cultural Identity
Thiebaud
Warhol
Rauschenberg
Larry Rivers
Duane Hansen
Estes
Alison Saar
Roger Brown Ray K. Metzker
Martin Schoeller
El Anatsui Kerry
James Marshall
Warrington Colescott
Thomas A. Huck
Leslie Dill
Christopher Brown
Other ideas I’ve toyed around with, include a couple of ongoing approaches to visual artmaking that my kids have been watching metamorphose over the past couple years. One is called “Projected Identities” and it involves merging handwritten self reflections, memories and memoires with image in a digital pastiche. Like Rauschenberg’s work, we make an artwork, then do something to it… and then do something else to it.” The evolution results in a variety of stages which – due to the digital and ephemeral nature of the works – means that one artwork is often actually five or six artifacts. Another is an idea that I call “Handwritten Portraits,” a visual exploration of what happens when one realizes that a portrait, in and of itself, is really quite uninformative. It is actually quite a liberating process we go through as our young artmakers re-invent the idea of portraiture by weaving meaningful elements of handwritten narrative into photographic portraiture.
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