P-12 Lesson Plans
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Download In this lesson students will be learning how to create a monochromatic scheme. Students will be introduced to storyteller, illustrator and author Faith Ringgold. Along with Ringgold’s quilts, a brief history on the AIDS epidemic, focusing on the quilt artwork displayed at the Zuckerman Museum will be discussed. Finally, students will learn to create an artwork piece using a monochromatic scheme, which tells a story about an act of kindness. (15.6 MB)
Download Students will be learning about protest art by creating their own protest sign using mixed media during this lesson. Students will explore effective ways of communicating in a powerful way in order to inspire a response. By studying social issues and different protesting methods, students will create their message in an effort to experience a sense of community improvement. They will use a variety of materials to experiment with elements and principles of design to create symbols in an expressive way. (6.5 MB)
Download One of two lists of works in the exhibition. (69 KB)
Download The second of two lists of works in the exhibition, the second comprises work by artists from Atlanta, GA who add their voices to the national conversation. (69 KB)
Description
This series of lessons for K-12 Art classrooms emerged from the spring 2016 ZMA exhibition, Art AIDS America. This groundbreaking exhibition underscored the deep and unforgettable presence of HIV in American art. It introduced and explored a wide spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS, from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful, surveying works from the early 1980s to the present. Art AIDS America was organized by Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and co-curated by Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), and Rock Hushka, Chief Curator at Tacoma Art Museum. The ZMA was the only southern representative on the tour of this critical exploration in art.
Publication Date
Spring 2016
Keywords
protest art, Faith Ringgold, quilt, mixed media collage
Disciplines
American Material Culture | American Popular Culture | Art Education | Art Practice | Elementary Education | Fine Arts | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Secondary Education
In this lesson students will be learning how to create a monochromatic scheme. Students will be introduced to storyteller, illustrator and author Faith Ringgold. Along with Ringgold’s quilts, a brief history on the AIDS epidemic, focusing on the quilt artwork displayed at the Zuckerman Museum will be discussed. Finally, students will learn to create an artwork piece using a monochromatic scheme, which tells a story about an act of kindness.
Elem-ProtestArtProject.pdf (6637 kB)
Students will be learning about protest art by creating their own protest sign using mixed media during this lesson. Students will explore effective ways of communicating in a powerful way in order to inspire a response. By studying social issues and different protesting methods, students will create their message in an effort to experience a sense of community improvement. They will use a variety of materials to experiment with elements and principles of design to create symbols in an expressive way.
AAAtlanta.pdf (69 kB)
One of two lists of works in the exhibition.
AAAtlanta_pt.2.pdf (69 kB)
The second of two lists of works in the exhibition, the second comprises work by artists from Atlanta, GA who add their voices to the national conversation.
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American Material Culture Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, Art Education Commons, Art Practice Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Secondary Education Commons
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In the high school lesson students will identify the effects of nature/AIDS that have begun to intrude in human society, especially the arts. They will compare/contrast two works of art using a Venn Diagram to see how different artists are dealing with AIDS and their artistic approach towards the disease. They will demonstrate understanding of abstract concepts by creating a word and image college of someone close to them that has been affected by AIDS or other diseases.