Week 2/22

a.) Above is a picture of my Sculptural Headdress. As I was preparing to make this headdress I decided to go for something little and delicate. I chose colors that went along with my personality as well as the typical fairytale story. The purple color is seen as very royal which is the color I used the most of but with different shades. Then I also made roses on the sides in pink and connecting it with the vine in the front to make it look different. It was a fun process where I got to show a little bit of my personality by connecting it to a fairytale princess.

b.) In a second grade classroom I think it would be a lot of fun to do a headdress like this. I think it would be interesting to look at a story like Pocahontas or even the 2 stories we looked at in class that way the boys would be able to relate a little more with by making a tribal headdress. I could read to the students the different stories we are analyzing and then have them create their own head pieces to relate to the story it and combine it to how they want it to look like.

c.) The California Content Standards for second grade literature states to recount fables and folktales from diverse cultures and to determine their message, moral or lesson. This would be a great project to do so that children have to opportunity to meet the California Standards in reading different folktales like the ones we read in class or pick different ones and then have the students reflect by making a headpieces. The students could create a headdress that demonstrates what they learned from the story.

Week 2/15

a.) After the presentation on Tuesday about VTS I noticed how valuable it is to facilitate this type of discussion with students in the classroom. Students are free to use their imagination in sharing what they see in the picture. The teacher also never gives them a lead to what it may be or if a student is wrong or right. The students just use their knowledge to describe what they see and come up with a story. They start to develop ideas off of each other and sometimes they even disagree with one another but they defend and support their ideas. They are free to share whatever they are thinking and it gives them a friendly environment to do so. It is important to let the students discuss with one another and the teacher not always telling them exactly what something is before they even have a chance to think about it.


b.) I decided to Google "artwork" in order to find the picture my friends would discuss and I found this: 

c.) During the discussion I didn't give them any information about the art piece I just told them to tell me what they saw and what it is. My 2 friends immediately noticed the heart that says the word love and soon after they noticed the image to the left with a man covering his face. They started to say that it could be something with shame and love because of the 2 images they immediately noticed. Also they saw how in the middle it looked like a tree with different branches. They also so a city type of form in the middle where the heart is. They noticed a house with someone walking in and structures that look like buildings around the heart. They thought it could be about someones life in a city and some kind of connection with love and the shame they see with the man hiding. I noticed that they fed off each others' ideas and never really disagreed but instead built the story and ideas together.

I later told them that it was an art piece done for a gay film and that the artist was trying to portray the transformation and journey of the main character through this art piece. Therefore their ideas could be correct in saying it was about love, shame and the confusion of all of it together.

Week 2/8

a.) Art is an important aspect in the classroom because it is a creative way of teaching students new concepts but in a fun and exciting way. In my elementary school I don't remember having a specific art program but I do remember doing different art projects in class with our teacher. I remember always coloring in the classroom but never expanding more than that. I am confident in drawing but I realize I am not the best at it. I can't do very elaborate work but I can do the basics

b.) Morgan Appel, went into detail about the relationship between art and learning. He started off describing the brain and the different ways it learns, thrives, working and uses different patterns and processes which all help an individual learn and gain knowledge. The brain overall works with multiple sense and thrives on process and making sense of the new knowledge. The brain also uses patterns to make sense of information, therefore art is a more complex style but helpful way of the brain understanding new information.


There are benefits in integrating art into a curriculum such as students making an association of concepts and vocabulary and also provides unique opportunities for flexible grouping and differentiated instruction. Students can also find their own levels of learning through art. Also through art the teacher con form a relationship with the students in actively participating instead of just grading papers. The art and learning connect in reinforcement throughout the curriculum and builds more complex and intelligent neural networks. They also connect by giving the opportunity to risk take as well as to pursue the tactic, tangible and emotionally inspiring. The arts can help the teacher show the students how what they just learned connects to things surrounding them by actually doing an art project to demonstrate the connection. It helps them further their understanding of concepts and develops new ways of thinking through the arts.

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This image was drawn by my friend who has never thought of himself as an artist and decided to go with a rock theme. He hasn't drawn in 3 years and he usually does plain stick figures but he tried to do it a bit more complex by adding a theme and an outfit instead of a simple stick figure. 

 

This image was drawn by an adult. She said she was trying to do a picture of me which turned out to be a profile image of my face. The last time she drew was 10 years ago and she preferred doing this type of image rather than some type of stick figure.

This image was done by a college student. She started off with the idea of it being a girl playing soccer but had to do it twice because she drew the ball too far away from the person. She carefully drew a regular girl and then added in her leg kicking the ball along with the soccer ball and background. The last time she drew was in high school about 2 years ago when she had to do some projects for a class. 

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MULTICULTURAL ART:

http://www.dickblick.com/multicultural/lessonplans/
http://www.kinderart.com/
http://www.hsv.k12.al.us/schools/art/dixon/multicultural.htm

Titles of Lessons:

• Buffalo Hides
• Aboriginal Hand Prints
• Chinese Ink Painting
• Chinese Dragon
• African/Indian Mask
• Oriental Fan

WOMEN'S ART:

http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ArtPainting-JanetFishStillLifes35.htm

~Janet Fish