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Visual Arts Curriculum

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Faith Ringgold | Topic 1

For the first and second lessons, students will learn about Faith Ringgold and her narratives made by painting on a quilt. We focus on Faith Ringgold’s top 2 inspirations: her heritage and civil rights activism. Her top visual qualities relied on pattern and variety. The students make their own version of these using cloth and paintings in tempera paint.

The Dogon Tribe | Topic 3

For the third and fourth lessons we will be discussing the Dogon Tribe and their ceremonial masks. The students will learn about the Dogon Tribe's top inspirations: African environment and religious ceremonies. The top 2 visual qualities of the Dogon Tribe is Texture and Symmetrical Balance. The students will then construct their own masks inspired by animal characteristics from foil and found materials.

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Anselm Kiefer | Topic 3

For our fifth and sixth lessons, we learn about Anselm Kiefer and his giant expressive multimedia artworks. The students learned all about Kiefer’s inspirations: German history, symbolism, and speaking up for groups of people that can’t speak up for themselves. The visual quality that the students learn is the idea of simplified landscapes. The students will be making their own Indiana Landscapes using materials they feel express the message they are trying to send.