Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Katie Alicaya
Mikaela Bugarin
Jemie Quero
Activity 1: Memos
- Take out your memos
- Each group will share what they wrote down when we join as a class
Lesson Overview
Students will use their own personal experiences and values to create
their interpretation of utopia through artmaking. They will be able to
visually express their perspectives on what their perfect worlds would
revolve around. Students will demonstrate their ideas by creating
wearable art using old clothes, recyclable materials, and classroom art
materials.
Lesson Objectives
2. Mythology: the collection of traditional stories that explain history or natural events
involving supernatural beings and events.
4. Philosophy: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
5. Ideology: a system of ideas and ideals; the study of their origin and nature.
Woolfalk
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Students will choose to either make or enhance one item (list below) or make - Jewelry
a look (doesnt have to be complex)
- Beads
- piece of jewelry
- Jewels
- Piece of clothing
- Scissors
- Headdress
- Hot glue
- Once a utopia is determined, they will take out the materials they brought. gun
Students will also have access to the materials that are located at the back
table and on the countertops to create their piece or pieces - Glue
- Students may use items like recyclable materials, old clothes, materials - Markers
that can embellish your base materials, resources from nature
- Paint
Concluding Activity
Frame your answers according to the thought behind your work
Essential Questions:
1. How can utopia be represented in artwork?
2. How can artists utilize reusable items in their artwork?
3. What are philosophies/big ideas that can represent a utopia?
4. How might the philosophy of utopias be implemented to help improve modern day
society?