Unit 4: Celebrations Popplet
Artist: Nick Cave Studio
Finger Puppets: Modeling Compound
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Artist Norman Rockwell Studio
Celebrating 21st Century America: Graphic Design
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Artist: Miriam Schapiro Studio
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Unit 4: Celebrations Reflection
How did the studio lessons relate to the given Big Idea?
Nick Cave is an amazing artist of art that can be viewed as static sculptures, live performances, video, and photographs. Cave makes sounds suits made of materials such as hair, sisal, plastic buttons, beads, sequins, and feathers. Cave's art can be a bit abstract but according to Pink, “In a complex world, mastery of metaphor—a whole-minded ability that some cognitive scientists have called “imaginative rationality” has become ever more valuable.”(p. 139) These sound suits are an excellent example of the Big Idea of Celebrations. Cave's sound suits celebrate sounds, culture, identity, creativity, imagination, etc. For this studio we created our own finger puppet versions of Cave's sound suits. The finger puppets were to be a celebration of our own personal identity. These puppets could be the artist in physical form, showing a part of their identity or the puppets could be an animal, metaphorically representing something about our identity.
Norman Rockwell was an artist during some of the greatest and worst times in American history. Rockwell painted everyday America that "he knew and observed to others who might not have noticed it," (Rockwell, retrieved from Ward PowerPoint.) He painted scenes of the common, often overlooked, of change and invention, and of tradition and the past. Rockwell's work exemplifies all of the Big Ideas that we have discussed this semester from Identity and Relationships to Stories and Celebrations. For this studio we created magazine covers that celebrated an aspect of 21st century America. For our magazine covers we chose an aspect of America that we personally saw as a celebration of America.
Miriam Schapiro celebrated the identity of women and their relationships within the world. Her artwork and teaching combines women's art, traditions and perspectives. Schapiro worked for these things to be valued, exhibited, and preserved. Schapiro was an essential drive in brining women's are to the forefront of the art world. For this studio we were able to choose between making a piece of art that exemplified Miriam Schapiro's work or create a teacher example piece for our integrated lesson plan. I worked on a comic book for my lesson plan. My lesson was about the Heroes and Everyday Heroes in the lives of our children. For my lesson I will have my students become the comic book creators. They will be the penciller, inker, and author of the pictures and text within the comic. These comics are going to celebrate the Everyday Heroes that we often forget about in our day to day activities.
How might you utilize visual art integration utilizing the studio lessons in your own classroom?
I could use the Nick Cave Studio in my future classroom as a fun and inventive way for students to think about the identity of something and the ways in which we should celebrate it! I could have my students actually make the clay for the finger puppets and at the same time study the different rocks, clays, etc. found in the ground in our area. We could study soil profiles in Missouri and talk about why there is a high clay content here in Missouri. Students could make puppets to celebrate their own personal traits, other cultures, animals, or even their heroes. This studio is a fun way for students to celebrate many things!
The Norman Rockwell Studio can be used in my future classroom to discuss many Big Ideas. Rockwell incorporated ideas of Identity, Relationships, Stories, and Celebrations! It would be easy to create a magazine cover for many different areas of study. This studio could even be used as an exit slip or final summary of a unit that we are studying within the classroom. In Science we could make covers about inventor, inventions, or the current theory that we are studying. In Social Studies we could make covers celebrating other cultures, civics, history, etc. This studio has limitless possibilities within my future classroom!
I could use the Miriam Schapiro Studio to talk about suffrage issues. We could study Miriam's Work to talk about the women's suffrage movement and create a collage of the women that have changed the history of American and across the World. We could also discuss the African American suffrage movement and the civil rights movement to be equal in this country. We could talk about people like Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Rosa Parks.
Resources:
Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York, NY: Penguin.
Ward, A. (2013, November). NORMAN ROCKWELL: Celebrating Everyday America. Retrieved from http://muartforchildren.com/uploads/1/5/8/9/15898218/rockwell_ppt.pptx .
Nick Cave is an amazing artist of art that can be viewed as static sculptures, live performances, video, and photographs. Cave makes sounds suits made of materials such as hair, sisal, plastic buttons, beads, sequins, and feathers. Cave's art can be a bit abstract but according to Pink, “In a complex world, mastery of metaphor—a whole-minded ability that some cognitive scientists have called “imaginative rationality” has become ever more valuable.”(p. 139) These sound suits are an excellent example of the Big Idea of Celebrations. Cave's sound suits celebrate sounds, culture, identity, creativity, imagination, etc. For this studio we created our own finger puppet versions of Cave's sound suits. The finger puppets were to be a celebration of our own personal identity. These puppets could be the artist in physical form, showing a part of their identity or the puppets could be an animal, metaphorically representing something about our identity.
Norman Rockwell was an artist during some of the greatest and worst times in American history. Rockwell painted everyday America that "he knew and observed to others who might not have noticed it," (Rockwell, retrieved from Ward PowerPoint.) He painted scenes of the common, often overlooked, of change and invention, and of tradition and the past. Rockwell's work exemplifies all of the Big Ideas that we have discussed this semester from Identity and Relationships to Stories and Celebrations. For this studio we created magazine covers that celebrated an aspect of 21st century America. For our magazine covers we chose an aspect of America that we personally saw as a celebration of America.
Miriam Schapiro celebrated the identity of women and their relationships within the world. Her artwork and teaching combines women's art, traditions and perspectives. Schapiro worked for these things to be valued, exhibited, and preserved. Schapiro was an essential drive in brining women's are to the forefront of the art world. For this studio we were able to choose between making a piece of art that exemplified Miriam Schapiro's work or create a teacher example piece for our integrated lesson plan. I worked on a comic book for my lesson plan. My lesson was about the Heroes and Everyday Heroes in the lives of our children. For my lesson I will have my students become the comic book creators. They will be the penciller, inker, and author of the pictures and text within the comic. These comics are going to celebrate the Everyday Heroes that we often forget about in our day to day activities.
How might you utilize visual art integration utilizing the studio lessons in your own classroom?
I could use the Nick Cave Studio in my future classroom as a fun and inventive way for students to think about the identity of something and the ways in which we should celebrate it! I could have my students actually make the clay for the finger puppets and at the same time study the different rocks, clays, etc. found in the ground in our area. We could study soil profiles in Missouri and talk about why there is a high clay content here in Missouri. Students could make puppets to celebrate their own personal traits, other cultures, animals, or even their heroes. This studio is a fun way for students to celebrate many things!
The Norman Rockwell Studio can be used in my future classroom to discuss many Big Ideas. Rockwell incorporated ideas of Identity, Relationships, Stories, and Celebrations! It would be easy to create a magazine cover for many different areas of study. This studio could even be used as an exit slip or final summary of a unit that we are studying within the classroom. In Science we could make covers about inventor, inventions, or the current theory that we are studying. In Social Studies we could make covers celebrating other cultures, civics, history, etc. This studio has limitless possibilities within my future classroom!
I could use the Miriam Schapiro Studio to talk about suffrage issues. We could study Miriam's Work to talk about the women's suffrage movement and create a collage of the women that have changed the history of American and across the World. We could also discuss the African American suffrage movement and the civil rights movement to be equal in this country. We could talk about people like Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Rosa Parks.
Resources:
Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York, NY: Penguin.
Ward, A. (2013, November). NORMAN ROCKWELL: Celebrating Everyday America. Retrieved from http://muartforchildren.com/uploads/1/5/8/9/15898218/rockwell_ppt.pptx .