Remember that a concentration needs to be personal to you. Although there are lots of ideas here, you would need to expand on these if you picked one of these.
Aboriginal and Native Art (Canadian lesson ideas)
• Advertising (idea: the role of women, Adbusters)
• Advocacy
• Animal Rights
• Architecture
• Art + Politics
• The Beauty Myth (idea: the role of women,
Ralph Lauren example)
• Bizarre and Surreal (1)
• Book Making (Develop text and images,
Create book forms, Explore artist books)
• Branding
• Casting Shadows (photography 1)
• Censorship (The Art of Surveillance)
• Culture
• Compassion
• Conflict (Capitalism vs Communism posters,
Contemporary art & conflict)
• Consumption and Consumerism
(consumerism doco, artful critiques of consumer culture,
Adbusters)
• Cooperation
• Creepy
• Desire
• Distortions
• Dreams
• Drip, Dribble or Splash
• Gadgets
• Gardens
• Graffiti (tagging,)
• Graphic Novels
• Great Outdoors
• Growing Up
• Glassy and Glossy
• Head in the Clouds
• Heroes
• Humour
• Identity (race )
• Integrating Images
• International Origins
• Inside Out
• Journals
• Kinetic Sculpture
• Landscapes of the Mind
• Loneliness
• Loss
• Macabre (examples)
• Manhood (Wrestling With Manhood:
Boys, Bullying & Battering)
• Medicine and/or Anatomy
• Memory
• Pattern
• People Power
• Personality Through Sculpture
• Performance
• Perspectives
• Picture books (info)
• Play
• Politics (50 Stunning Political
Artworks)
• Power
• Protest
• Public and Private Spaces (Art
in public places)
• Race (info)
• Recycling
• Reflections (water, metal, mirror,
glass, photography examples 1)
• Rock Posters
• Romance
• Seasons (Spring photography
examples)
• Seeing Things in a New Light
• Shattered Images
• Signage (Basquiat ex.,)
• Structures
• Stories
• Spirituality