Unit 1: Identity
Artist: Henri Matisse
Mini-Compositions: Collage
Artist: Chuck Close
Self-Portraiture: Crayon, Sharpie, and Watercolors
Artist: William Wegman
Artful Personification: Mixed Media
Unit 1: Identity Reflection
Identity is the fact of who a person is. Identity is unique to each and every person and plays a huge part in our development during school. Students may understand him or her self, but not understand others, which can affect those relationships being built at a young age at school, and can even get in the way of learning. Identity is one huge concept that we typically don't have a set lesson to learn about in school, but it can be integrated not only into the classroom, but also into every subject area. According to The Kennedy Center's Definition for Arts Integration (2010), "Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both," (p. 18). These 3 studios are a perfect way to integrate the concept of identity into the classroom. Students could write a story about him or her self in literacy class, then be asked to show that story in an expressive piece of artwork.
To paraphrase Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (2002), students integrated visual arts and literature for their senior seminar; students conveyed the main idea of conflict/violence in family relationships by creating a sculpture, video, and literature. In the mini-composition college, I was able to express my identity by finding/creating things that helped create the person that I am today. For the self-portrait studio I was able to find a Disney character (Daisy Duck)that I felt best fit my personality and my identity. Studio 3, artful personification, allowed me to take someone else’s identity (Big Bad Wolf from The Three Little Pigs), and find a person who I felt could be identified as having a similar identity.
References:
Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. (2002). Authentic connections: Interdisciplinary work in the arts. Retrieved from
http://www.kennedy center.org/education/ceta/arts_integration_definition.pdf
Kennedy Center's Definition for Arts Integration. (2010). Retrieved from MizzouPublishing Packet 2013
Identity is the fact of who a person is. Identity is unique to each and every person and plays a huge part in our development during school. Students may understand him or her self, but not understand others, which can affect those relationships being built at a young age at school, and can even get in the way of learning. Identity is one huge concept that we typically don't have a set lesson to learn about in school, but it can be integrated not only into the classroom, but also into every subject area. According to The Kennedy Center's Definition for Arts Integration (2010), "Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both," (p. 18). These 3 studios are a perfect way to integrate the concept of identity into the classroom. Students could write a story about him or her self in literacy class, then be asked to show that story in an expressive piece of artwork.
To paraphrase Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (2002), students integrated visual arts and literature for their senior seminar; students conveyed the main idea of conflict/violence in family relationships by creating a sculpture, video, and literature. In the mini-composition college, I was able to express my identity by finding/creating things that helped create the person that I am today. For the self-portrait studio I was able to find a Disney character (Daisy Duck)that I felt best fit my personality and my identity. Studio 3, artful personification, allowed me to take someone else’s identity (Big Bad Wolf from The Three Little Pigs), and find a person who I felt could be identified as having a similar identity.
References:
Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. (2002). Authentic connections: Interdisciplinary work in the arts. Retrieved from
http://www.kennedy center.org/education/ceta/arts_integration_definition.pdf
Kennedy Center's Definition for Arts Integration. (2010). Retrieved from MizzouPublishing Packet 2013