UNIT 4: CELEBRATIONS
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ARTIST: NICK CAVE
- FINGER PUPPETS: MODELING COMPOUND
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ARTIST: NORMAN ROCKWELL
- CELEBRATING 21ST CENTURY AMERICA: GRAPHIC DESIGN
ARTIST: MIRIAM SCHAPIRO
- ARTIST'S CHOICE
UNIT 4: CELEBRATIONS REFLECTION
Celebrations convey meaning. They illustrate the honored values within a culture. Nick Cave focuses on African Culture through the creation of sound suits and performances of these costumes. In the same way, our class’s making of finger puppets allowed us to express our own personal cultures, emphasizing our identities and what we value. Celebrations are also a way to highlight aspects of a time period including people, change, and tradition. Norman Rockwell explained his paintings this way: “I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed” (as cited in Ward, n.d., slide 4). The studio of graphic design allowed us to play with the representation of America in the 21st century, celebrating the unseen. Finally, celebrations reveal perspective. In Miriam Schapiro’s work, she exhibits and preserves the importance of women in society. Within the many options of studio creations, the one I selected was a collage of a person that inspired me, that is, my mother. My compilation of text and images symbolizes and celebrates the identity of the most important woman in my life.
Throughout this unit, we have combined the big ideas of Identity, Relationships, Stories, and Celebrations, practicing Symphony. According to Pink (2006) “Symphony…is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize…to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns…and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else through to pair” (p. 130). With this working definition, all of these studios brought together the pieces, connecting identify, relationships, stories, and celebrations. In my own classroom, I hope to bring together the main themes studied in a discipline or throughout multiple disciplines to extend student’s learning, enabling them to see their progress and make connections between the big ideas. One specific way I could do this is have the children create a collage of text and images portraying celebrations within their personal lives, emphasizing their unmatchable identities, bringing out relationships they have with one another, and sharing stories unique to them. In my classroom, I hope to create symphony.
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind. New York: Penguin Group.
Ward, A. Norman Rockwell: Celebrating Every America [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://muartforchildren.weebly.com/unit-4.html
Throughout this unit, we have combined the big ideas of Identity, Relationships, Stories, and Celebrations, practicing Symphony. According to Pink (2006) “Symphony…is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize…to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns…and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else through to pair” (p. 130). With this working definition, all of these studios brought together the pieces, connecting identify, relationships, stories, and celebrations. In my own classroom, I hope to bring together the main themes studied in a discipline or throughout multiple disciplines to extend student’s learning, enabling them to see their progress and make connections between the big ideas. One specific way I could do this is have the children create a collage of text and images portraying celebrations within their personal lives, emphasizing their unmatchable identities, bringing out relationships they have with one another, and sharing stories unique to them. In my classroom, I hope to create symphony.
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind. New York: Penguin Group.
Ward, A. Norman Rockwell: Celebrating Every America [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://muartforchildren.weebly.com/unit-4.html