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Ansel Adams,
American Artist and Activist In this multi-session lesson, students will be introduced to the work of acclaimed photographer Ansel Adams. |
Visual & Performing Arts CA Standards |
9-12 | |||
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Ansel
Adams and the Nature of Expressive Portraiture In this multi-session lesson, students will be introduced to the portraiture work of acclaimed photographer, Ansel Adams. Adams, best known for his black and white landscapes of Yosemite National Park and the California coast, did not confine himself to just one subject area. |
Visual & Performing Arts CA Standards |
6-8 | |||
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Portrait Sculptures
In this four-session lesson, students will identify characteristics that they have in common with animals. Based on these similar characteristics, the students will create a self-portrait sculpture combining the body structures of different animals. The students will create the sculpture armature, plaster the armature, and then paint the sculpture. The students will also write descriptive paragraphs about their sculptures. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts, Science CA Standards |
3 | |||
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Protest Sculpture In this three-session lesson, students will create a sculpture that expresses their thoughts and feelings concerning a social issue. The sculpture may awaken the viewer to the problem and possibly motivate them to action or a new understanding of the problem. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts, History-Social Science CA Standards |
9-12 | |||
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Recycled Sculpture In this one-session lesson, students will use recycled materials to create a sculpture using additive and subtractive processes. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts, Science CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Ritual Vessel In this lesson students will use their knowledge of geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of Ancient Civilizations, Medieval, and/or Early Modern Times to create their own ritual vessels out of clay. Students will focus on a particular culture in history based upon the History-Social Science unit recently studied. |
Visual & Performing Arts, History-Social
Science, English-Language Arts CA Standards |
6-7 | |||
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Think IT, Draw
IT, Make IT In this one-session lesson, students will identify and describe characteristics of minimalist sculpture. Students will then work in groups to create an original minimalist sculpture, using careful written and mathematic documentation. |
Visual & Performing
Arts, English-Language Arts, Mathematics CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Time
- Art and Permanence In this three-session lesson, the students will use natural and recycled objects arranged in a plastic container to create a gelatin cast of the objects and the negative space around them. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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