Innovative Installations

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will create innovative art installations using nontraditional materials or creative art integration. They will collaborate with local businesses, community partners, libraries, or other government facilities to design and install artwork.

Level

Advanced

Areas of Study

Community Mixed Media

Collections

Creating Public Art

Lesson Objectives

Students will research partnership artwork locations.

Students will generate installation ideas and correlate them to community partner locations.

Students will conceptualize, plan, engage in the approval process, and implement installation artwork.

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Teaching Strategies

Introduce students to various choice-based art installation formats.
Discuss and compare the materials and resources needed for implementation.
Guide students through the community approval process and fundraising campaign.
Facilitate and engage in the participatory artmaking experience.

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National Standards

Create

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

VA:Cr3.1.IIIa

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

2 hours

Demonstration Time

45 minutes

Student Studio Time

5 hours

Supplies and Materials

Mural paints
Site-specific materials
Paint rollers
Large paint brushes
100' chalk line
Schematic drawing

National Standards

Create

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

VA:Cr3.1.IIIa

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Steps

Develop a Committee

Develop a committee to review community partner locations, such as banks, businesses, government facilities, libraries, and social services. Select the candidate for the proposal pitch. Then document the proposed location through sketches and photographs

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