Unit 4: Celebrations
Unit 4 Group Popplet
Studio 1:
Nick Cave
Finger Puppets: Modeling Compound
November 7, 2013
Studio 2:
Norman Rockwell
· Celebrating 21st Century America in Photography
November 14, 2013
Studio 3:
Miriam Schapiro
Create a teacher sample for your Lesson Plan Assignment
Based on an existing big idea: Family
(Artwork Inspired by "Gone
November 21, 2013
Unit 4 Reflection:
I really enjoyed the Nick Cave studio. I LOVED creating the finger puppet! I think that the kids will love making their own finger puppet, and I will definitely make that a part of my lesson plan for one of my lessons for my classroom. The modeling clay that we used was easy to use and I think it would be very easy to use it in my classroom. It really did go along with the theme of celebrations because I was able to create a finger puppet that celebrated something special to me. I made a finger puppet of Truman in a football jersey because I love Mizzou and football and there is so much celebration that occurs when you are at a game. Everyone is screaming and yelling and so excited all the time. I made it right after we had just won against the University of Florida and there was so much celebration at the game. I loved seeing the celebratory art pieces of Nick Cave, and I believe my students would love to learn about him and see how he does his art pieces.
The Norman Rockwell studio reflected the big ideas of celebrations very neatly, as well. I really liked learning about that artist and I think he is a significant American artist that my students need to be familiar with and know about him and his work. He really did celebrate America in his pieces, and I really enjoyed learning about him. Bang (2000) states "we see pictures as extensions of reality" and it is so true (60). We marvel at pictures that exhibit our own reality and the ones that reflect it. I thought the magazine cover was a great way of showing what we can celebrate in our lives and in our culture. Magazines celebrate a certain part of our culture that many other things can. They can celebrate style, the American dream, the world around us, and many more topics about life. The cover is the part that show what a magazine celebrates, and I loved making my own cover. I am not sure that I will incorporate this specific studio into my classroom unless I knew that my kids were really computer savvy and could navigate word or photo shop to be able to accomplish this activity. It was hard for me to even figure out how to format the picture correctly. I would change this project to still integrate it into my classroom but I think I would use collage more so than the computer. I would probably have the kids type up words in a word doc that they can cut out to use as the title and subtopics on the cover of their magazine and have them find and cut out pictures from magazines to have as their photos on the front to celebrate a thing or event that is special to them.
The Mariam Shapiro or free work studio was awesome, as well. I loved seeing how she celebrated life and how America was changing in the 1960's. She showed that women could celebrate their equality and freedom in the United States and their ability to create art. I thought it was really fun to have the ability to do whatever we wanted to for the last studio and to kind of celebrate the end of the semester and our studio time. I will definitely have a lot of celebratory events with my kids and would love to have one that will incorporate their own creative artistic ability. I want students to celebrate their artistic ability because they all have some form of it. I want them to be able to use whatever materials they want so that they can succeed, however, they can. The thing that celebrations and art have in common is that they give people "the ability to encapsulate, contextualize,and emotionalize has become vastly more important in the Conceptual Age" as Pink (2005) states (104). Celebrations make memories and almost "encapsulate" a time or event in one's life and same with art. They both create high emotional sensations in people and that is so cool to combine the two and make art into a celebration. I will integrate this way of celebrating my students and art in my lesson planning.
References
Bang. Molly. (2000). Picture This: How Pictures Work. San Francisco: Chronicle
Books.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.
I really enjoyed the Nick Cave studio. I LOVED creating the finger puppet! I think that the kids will love making their own finger puppet, and I will definitely make that a part of my lesson plan for one of my lessons for my classroom. The modeling clay that we used was easy to use and I think it would be very easy to use it in my classroom. It really did go along with the theme of celebrations because I was able to create a finger puppet that celebrated something special to me. I made a finger puppet of Truman in a football jersey because I love Mizzou and football and there is so much celebration that occurs when you are at a game. Everyone is screaming and yelling and so excited all the time. I made it right after we had just won against the University of Florida and there was so much celebration at the game. I loved seeing the celebratory art pieces of Nick Cave, and I believe my students would love to learn about him and see how he does his art pieces.
The Norman Rockwell studio reflected the big ideas of celebrations very neatly, as well. I really liked learning about that artist and I think he is a significant American artist that my students need to be familiar with and know about him and his work. He really did celebrate America in his pieces, and I really enjoyed learning about him. Bang (2000) states "we see pictures as extensions of reality" and it is so true (60). We marvel at pictures that exhibit our own reality and the ones that reflect it. I thought the magazine cover was a great way of showing what we can celebrate in our lives and in our culture. Magazines celebrate a certain part of our culture that many other things can. They can celebrate style, the American dream, the world around us, and many more topics about life. The cover is the part that show what a magazine celebrates, and I loved making my own cover. I am not sure that I will incorporate this specific studio into my classroom unless I knew that my kids were really computer savvy and could navigate word or photo shop to be able to accomplish this activity. It was hard for me to even figure out how to format the picture correctly. I would change this project to still integrate it into my classroom but I think I would use collage more so than the computer. I would probably have the kids type up words in a word doc that they can cut out to use as the title and subtopics on the cover of their magazine and have them find and cut out pictures from magazines to have as their photos on the front to celebrate a thing or event that is special to them.
The Mariam Shapiro or free work studio was awesome, as well. I loved seeing how she celebrated life and how America was changing in the 1960's. She showed that women could celebrate their equality and freedom in the United States and their ability to create art. I thought it was really fun to have the ability to do whatever we wanted to for the last studio and to kind of celebrate the end of the semester and our studio time. I will definitely have a lot of celebratory events with my kids and would love to have one that will incorporate their own creative artistic ability. I want students to celebrate their artistic ability because they all have some form of it. I want them to be able to use whatever materials they want so that they can succeed, however, they can. The thing that celebrations and art have in common is that they give people "the ability to encapsulate, contextualize,and emotionalize has become vastly more important in the Conceptual Age" as Pink (2005) states (104). Celebrations make memories and almost "encapsulate" a time or event in one's life and same with art. They both create high emotional sensations in people and that is so cool to combine the two and make art into a celebration. I will integrate this way of celebrating my students and art in my lesson planning.
References
Bang. Molly. (2000). Picture This: How Pictures Work. San Francisco: Chronicle
Books.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.