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This project is one of the formative assessments in a unit entitled Text as Art. Students viewed a variety of artist who focus on text in their artwork including Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Stanley Marsh and Shepard Fairey. Throughout the unit we discussed and addressed the essential questions:
Students were asked to write down their beliefs on several different topics and chose a belief they felt strongly about to be the platform of the artwork they would display publicly in the school. To create a stencil from their manifesto statement, we learned about positive/ negative space in connection to islands and bridges in stencils. They drew their own statement in block letters and cut each letter with an x-acto knife. When they were finished cutting, they printed their manifesto statement on brown craft paper and glued their statement to a larger sheet. As a class, each period created a collective scroll of Manifesto Statements that started with "I Believe..."
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April 2017
Ms. JuarezI’m a High School Visual Arts Teacher. This is a sample of the projects created in my Art 1 and Studio Drawing & Painting Class. Categories
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