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Unit Plans and Essential Questions
Art II, 2017-2018
In Art II, students build upon the skills and foundations learned in Art I while expanding their experience through interaction new media, advancing artistic voice, and finessing makership. We frame these explorations through a heavily student-led studio culture, daily critique, and a growth mindset that prepares every student for portfolio production and, eventually, success in AP Art.
Introduction - Inside / Out Portraits
5 Words Describing You...Times Two!
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Essential Questions:
How do we express ourselves through makership? Does art contain meaning before, during, or after it is made? Does art need meaning?
Suminagashi
A traditional and once highly regarded trade craft across the East!
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Essential Questions:
What is the history of Suminagashi? What is the process? How can we adapt it into mixed media work? How do we critique a craft or a non-compositional work?
Book Binding
Create a journal and learn the basics of book binding to hold the semester body of work.
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Essential Questions:
What is the history of book binding? What are common tools and methods? How do we critique craft versus art? How to we encorporate artistry in craft?
Gelatin Printing and Monotypes
A new way of looking at prints, space, and unity within a work.
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Essential Questions:
How do we make a gelli plate? What is the process for printing with gelatin? How does this medium encorportate EoDs and PoDs?
Advanced Line, Acrylic, and Gouache
Reimagine the purpose of line and abstraction, while mastering the use of canvas/linen substrates.
Essential Questions:
What is abstract, organic ,and inorganic form? What is the purpose of line? How do we use abstract form to create a coherent and purposeful composition?
Collage and Encaustic
"To Heat or to Burn"
Essential Questions:
What is encaustic? What are the steps to prepare an encaustic surface? How do we layer to create a work with unity (think about AP standards)?
Felt Sculpture
You've learned how to embroider...now lets kick it up a notch, Claes Oldenburg style!​
Essential Questions:
Who is Claes Oldenburg? What is a sculpture? What embroidery knowledge do we adapt to create 3D objects? How is appropriation of a pre-existing object still art?
3C Vessels
Coil Baskets, Polymer Clay, and Crochet
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Essential Questions:
When exploring non-traditional art mediums or crafts, how might we redefine "art making" as we know it? Why might an artist use one of these mediums? What is the process for making two of the three vessels?
Paper Mache Heads
Caricatures and lots of messy: lets explore costume design and satire as art!
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Essential Questions:
What is the history of costume design as an art? What is the process for making a mask? How do you adapt a 2d drawing into a 3D sculpture?
Large Scale Collage and Decoupage
Finally! A group project! Transform a space using only cut outs a la Christopher Faust!​
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Essential Questions:
How do we plan a large scale work? What is decoupage? How do we create a cohesive meaning for our work when (1) multiple people are working on it and (2) its so big?
Art Show and Tape Space
Lets go even bigger! Find a space in the school to transform using only tape! ​Help plan the art show too!
Essential Questions:
How do you scale a plan for work on a larger space? What are different ways to manipulate a new medium? What are the challenges of installation art? What is the intention of your work?
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Portfolio Review
Compile your work into a powerpoint presentation; we will do a final revue of your Art 2 magnum opus as a class!
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Essential Questions:
What did you succeed at over the year? What could you have approached differently over the year? What will you take into AP? What do you want to explore ? What was your favorite project, least favorite project? How should we view a body of work?