Community Art

Trash Can Painting

Overview: In this lesson the students will learn about tints, tones, and shades. They will first paint inspirational words on rocks using complementary black and then they will use tints, tones, and shades to paint on trash cans. By the end of this lesson the students will have a better understanding of how to paint and ways they can help their community.

Goals: I can make black paint by mixing complementary colors together. I can create tints, tones, and shades.

Questions: How do I create black paint? What are tints, tones, and shades?

Objectives:4PE Understand how social, cultural and political factors affect what contemporary artists and designers create.

5PR Collaborate to create a thematic work that combines visual art with other arts disciplines.

5RE Identify professions that use art and design, and explore the relationship between art, technology and industry.

Language: complementary, tints, tones, and shades, hue

Materials: paint, brushes, rocks, trash cans,

Hope Mugs

Overview: In this lesson the students will create two ceramic mugs. One will be for them to keep and one will be donated to people living at The Miller Community House, which is a homeless shelter in Kent, Ohio. By the end of this lesson the students will practice basic ceramic skills and techniques and they will be more aware of the community around where they live.

Goals: I can tell you what tactile texture is. I can tell you about all the principles of design and what compositional space is.

Questions:What is tactile texture? What are the principles of design? What is compositional space?

Objectives:2PE Develop awareness and articulate various functions of art.

4PR Present personal artworks that show competence in the use of art elements to create meanings and effects

4RE Recognize how public discussion can affect beliefs about the nature and value of art.

Language: slip, score, glazing, coil, pinch, tactile texture

Material: clay, clay tools, brushes, glazes

Falcon Sculptures

Overview: In this lesson the students will look at the Chicago Cows. The Chicago cows are a public art display in Chicago. Every cow is different. Student will use this as inspiration to design a falcon. The students will use a 2 liter bottle, cardboard, and paper mache to turn their bottle into a falcon. The falcons will then be hung around the school.

Goals: What is public art? Why is public art important?

Standards:2PE Develop awareness and articulate various functions of art.

2PR Demonstrate increased technical skill and craftsmanship by using more complex processes and materials to design and create two and three-dimensional artworks

4RE Recognize how public discussion can affect beliefs about the nature and value of art

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