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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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This was a fun project the students enjoyed because they were able to personalize their characters. Students filled out a worksheet that contained about 50 random questions that ranged from their favorite food, celebrity, a vegetable they hate, etc. From this worksheet, students selected one inanimate object and added their own physical facial features to it. They also added their names to the print for a more personal effect. Students had to cut, layer and glue each piece. One thing that was difficult for them during this project was creating texture. For example, if their eyes had two circles placed within each other, they had to cut 2 separate circles and layer them on top of each other. Some students would just draw the extra circle and it wouldn’t come out in the print because it did not create a 3-dimensional texture. To print each character they used block printing ink and spread it across the plexiglass to evenly distribute onto the brayers. They then used the brayers to spread the ink onto the collagraph and pressed it upon a bright colored paper. They made multiple prints of their characters. |
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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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