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November 29 Community and Gratitude
Romare Bearden is an African-American artist who is famous for his collages where he uses everyday materials to create images. The following youtube link, My Hands Sing the Blues by Jeanne Walker Harvey shows us how Beardon’s artwork tells stories about his communities in North Carolina and Harlem in New York City. When you have finished watching the link, reflect on the questions to the left before getting started on telling your own stories about your community using the materials provided and adding some of your own. .
Please bring your finished pieces to school November 30-December 2 to be displayed in the office.
Reflection questions:
What do you notice on the collage?
What parts of a community do you see in the collage?
Key Vocabulary:
Community: community is a group of people who may live, work, or do other activities together in the same place. Communities can be large, like the entire world, or small, like friends or family. Communities work together and support each other.
Collage: Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Graditude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness
Materials Provided
- Watercolor paper
- Scrap paper (plain, pattern)
- Tissue paper
- Scrap fabric
- Glue
Materials from home (Optional)
- Photos from home
- Pencils
- Markers
- Watercolors
- Pastels
- Crayons
- Scissors
- Magazines/newspapers
Reflection:
What do you think a community is?
What are some examples of a community?
Can you name a small community? (family, friends, their street) What about a large community? (school, city, entire world)
Collaging activity:
You will know create your own collage representing your community using pictures and materials of your own and art materials that have been provided. This could include the people in your community, special places in your community, activities that remind you of your community, and anything that you that you do in your community.
1. Start by cutting out the shape of your home. The following are some examples:
2. Save your cutout scrapes to use as windows and doors. Use your windows and doors to write sentences or words reflecting on gratitude. I am grateful for...
3. Choose images, fabric and paper that remind you of your community or just choose materials that you connect to. Use your senses and think about the, smells, sounds, colors, textures that are part of your community. Then begin cutting out shapes and images and organizing them onto your house to tell a story about your community. Use the provided glue to glue down your pieces then add your gratitude windows and doors to complete your piece. Bring your completed collage to school November 30 -December 2. Final collages will be displayed in the front office so we can learn about each other’s homes and communities.
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