Spring 2013
Unit At A Glance: Art & The Environment
One of the ways to make art is for ourselves. We share finished artwork with friends and family. We bring this art home and may even display our artwork on the walls or refrigerator. This type of art is created for personal and individual messages.
Another way to make art is for our community. Art for everyone to see is created to send an important message and create awareness of specific concerns. Our mandala series is an example of artwork created to send a message to our community regarding our relationship with nature and the environment.
Purpose
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Translated to mean "sacred circle," a mandala is more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness as the sum of its parts are assembled together to create one artwork. A mandala can be seen as a model for St John school’s commitment to faith and growth. Collaborative mandalas made from recycled materials will help to bring social awareness to the students, staff, and parents of St John school by serving as a symbol for environmental stewardship and activism. Creating mandalas as a group is a meaningful experience in which students can express themselves individually within a unified structure.
Big Idea
The Enviornment
Unit Objectives
1. The creation of Mandalas will be explored in diverse ways throughout each grade level at St John school as students create public
artwork that sends an environmental message to their school community.
2. Students will study contemporary artists who work within the themes of environment, ecology, waste materials, transformation
of everyday objects, and our relationship with nature.
3. Students will employ a variety of artmaking techniques and processes such as printmaking, paper arts, plaster casting, mosaic assemblage, and relief sculpture.
Artists
Tara Donovan, Vik Muniz, Chakaia Booker, El Antasui, Maya Lin
Visual Arts National Standards
Standard 1: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
Benchmark 4: Conceives, interprets, and justifies the relationship between ideas communicated and the media, techniques, and processes.
Standard 2: Using Knowledge of the Elements of Art and the Principle of Design
Benchmark 3: Visually communicates by incorporating the elements and key principles in works of art.
Standard 3: Creating Art works through Choice of Subject, Symbols, and Idea
Benchmark 3: Explores a variety of ways to solve a visual problem and chooses and applies the most effect solution.
Student Artwork
Unit At A Glance: Art & The Environment
One of the ways to make art is for ourselves. We share finished artwork with friends and family. We bring this art home and may even display our artwork on the walls or refrigerator. This type of art is created for personal and individual messages.
Another way to make art is for our community. Art for everyone to see is created to send an important message and create awareness of specific concerns. Our mandala series is an example of artwork created to send a message to our community regarding our relationship with nature and the environment.
Purpose
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Translated to mean "sacred circle," a mandala is more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness as the sum of its parts are assembled together to create one artwork. A mandala can be seen as a model for St John school’s commitment to faith and growth. Collaborative mandalas made from recycled materials will help to bring social awareness to the students, staff, and parents of St John school by serving as a symbol for environmental stewardship and activism. Creating mandalas as a group is a meaningful experience in which students can express themselves individually within a unified structure.
Big Idea
The Enviornment
Unit Objectives
1. The creation of Mandalas will be explored in diverse ways throughout each grade level at St John school as students create public
artwork that sends an environmental message to their school community.
2. Students will study contemporary artists who work within the themes of environment, ecology, waste materials, transformation
of everyday objects, and our relationship with nature.
3. Students will employ a variety of artmaking techniques and processes such as printmaking, paper arts, plaster casting, mosaic assemblage, and relief sculpture.
Artists
Tara Donovan, Vik Muniz, Chakaia Booker, El Antasui, Maya Lin
Visual Arts National Standards
Standard 1: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
Benchmark 4: Conceives, interprets, and justifies the relationship between ideas communicated and the media, techniques, and processes.
Standard 2: Using Knowledge of the Elements of Art and the Principle of Design
Benchmark 3: Visually communicates by incorporating the elements and key principles in works of art.
Standard 3: Creating Art works through Choice of Subject, Symbols, and Idea
Benchmark 3: Explores a variety of ways to solve a visual problem and chooses and applies the most effect solution.
Student Artwork