Mantra Flag Collaboration Guide
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Students will collaborate to develop artist affirmations that contribute to a community mantra flag. Students will create a batik flag illustrating a specific mantra using a glue and paint-resist process.
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Lesson Objectives
Students will create affirmations focusing on positive artistic behaviors in a specific community.
Students will discuss and visually document where and when people gather to make and experience art in a community.
Students will collaboratively reflect on how the visual documentations show the intended meaning.
Teaching Strategies
- Explain affirmations and mantras.
- Facilitate collaborative brainstorming, reflection, and revision groups.
- Assign affirmations that document positive artistic behaviors in a specific community to the students.
- Demonstrate how to make a batik flag using the paint and glue-resist process.
National Standards
Create
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
VA:Cr1.1.6aReflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
VA:Cr3.1.6aTime Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
45 minutes
Demonstration Time
10 minutes
Student Studio Time
5 hours
Supplies and Materials
- Paper, pencil, and eraser
- White fabric (cotton or linen)
- Water-soluble pencil and washable gel glue
- Paints: fabric or acrylic mixed with textile medium
- Brushes, water cup, and paper towel
- Sink or tub for soaking
- String or ribbon and sewing machine or needle and thread
- Optional: camera
National Standards
Create
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
VA:Cr1.1.6aReflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
VA:Cr3.1.6a
Steps
Discuss and Brainstorm
Discuss the affirmations, mantras, and where and when people gather to make and experience art in the community.
Brainstorm and identify spaces where the collaborative mantra flag could be exhibited.
Document these ideas visually.
Choose an exhibition space.
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- Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
- Still Life
- Portraiture
- Abstraction
- Architecture
- Beginning Exercises
- Community
- Identity
- Test Unit
- Unit 10
- Unit 10
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- Kindergarten sub plans
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- Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
- Still Life
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- Architecture
- Beginning Exercises
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- Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
- Still Life
- Portraiture
- Abstraction
- Architecture
- Beginning Exercises
- Community
- Identity
- Test Unit
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