Mind Mapping
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Students will analyze how current world events impact the work of Cindy Sherman and Kehinde Wiley. They will digitally create a self-portrait, incorporating images, symbols, and text, that communicates emotion themed around a current event.
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Students will design an expressive, digital self-portrait collage using images, symbols, and text.
Students will analyze how current world events impact the work of Cindy Sherman and Kehinde Wiley.
Students will reflect on how they used the elements of art to convey emotions and meaning.
Students will have the option to participate in a virtual art show through photographs of their work.
Teaching Strategies
- Introduce students to Cindy Sherman and Kehinde Wiley who create portraits in response to current events.
- Show how to search for and download images to be used in a digital collage.
- Demonstrate how to use layering, copying, cropping, cutting, color, filters, and other tools in Pixlr.
- Guide students in writing a reflective artist statement explaining the intended meaning in their art work.
- Organize an optional virtual art show that exhibits how students represent their feelings about an event in their work.
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Create
Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
VA:Cr2.1.IIaTime Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
30 minutes
Demonstration Time
30 minutes
Student Studio Time
3 hours
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- Free digital art program (e.g., Pixrl)
- Internet access
- Picture-taking device (e.g., phone, camera, tablet, etc.)
National Standards
Create
Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
VA:Cr2.1.IIa
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Analyze & Brainstorm
Analyze how artists synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with artmaking.
Select a current event of interest.
Create a mindmap to brainstorm images, text, and symbols associated with the chosen event.
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