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Final Project: Map Your Hood

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Map Your Hood Final project Take a walk through your hood, explore It, learn about It, and draw a map, as a portrait of your hood. Proyecto final Dé un paseo por su capucha, explore, aprenda sobre ella y dibuje un mapa, como un retrato de su capucha. Materials: Paper, Scissors, Pencil, Color pencil or Markers, Glue stick or Tape, and recycled materials (magazines, newspapers, wrappers, ect) Materiales: Papel, tijeras, lápiz, lápiz o marcadores de colores, barra de pegamento o cinta adhesiva y materiales reciclados (revistas, periódicos, envoltorios, etc Step 1 Find your address on google maps. Encuentra tu dirección en google maps. Step 2 Zoom into your street, Including about 5 other streets In your hood. Acercarse a su calle, incluidas otras 5 calles en su barrio. Step 3 Draw the streets of your hood with pencil. Dibuja las calles de tu capucha con lápiz. Step
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Art making as protest / SENIOR FINAL PROJECT

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Here is our video lesson, the Art of protest. I would like you to create 2 works in any material you choose. These works must include text and be in response to a current events. Our zoom meeting will be time for us to talk about our feelings and express ourself however we need, we will not be focusing on art making but we can discuss your work during this time.  If you feel like you need to work on our own please email me your completed work by Friday morning. Seniors this is your final project so make sure there is layers to your work and 3-5 sentences explaining each piece. 
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The Art of Protest

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This week we are engaging with the news, we are not going to ignore what is going around us. Allowing the art of protest to be our guide I would like us all to create a protest poster, or a window sign. Art and Protest Season 7, Episode 3 LINK HERE   The Art of Protest  : Protest Posters  Posters through time  Activist artists | 11 famous protest art examples A demonstrator at the January 1977 protest at the International Hotel in San Francisco.   All Power to the People |  Emory Douglas /Black Panther Party/ Center for the Study of Political Graphics Black Power Matters |  Eastside Arts Alliance / Center for the Study of Political Graphics Luther posting his 95 theses Community Control of the Land |  Favianna Rodriguez / Self Help Graphics and Art / Center for the Study of Political Graphics
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Building with Paper

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Building with Paper   Materials: Paper Scissors Pencil Tape OR Glue
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Artist of the Week : NICK CAVE

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NICK CAVE : Nick Cave  (born February 4, 1959, in  Fulton, Missouri , United States) is an American fabric  sculptor ,  dancer , and  performance artist .  Cave's family was large in size and always supportive of his artistic interests. He claims his upbringing gave him an artistic attentiveness to found objects and assemblages. Cave started his artistic journey by manipulating fabrics from older sibling's hand me downs. After he graduated  Hickman High School  in 1977, he enrolled in the  Kansas City Art Institute  where he finished a  Bachelor of Fine Arts  in 1982. He is best known for his  Soundsuits  – wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly. He also trained as a dancer with  Alvin Ailey .  His later sculptures focused on color theory, mixed media and large scale  installations . He currently resides in  Chicago, Illinois , and is director of the graduate fashion program at  School of the Art Institute of Chicago .   He still continues t
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Artist of the week: Cicely Carew

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Cicely Carew @Cicely Carew https://www.cicelycarew.com/
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Drawing a corner of your room

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Drawing a corner of your room Materials: Paper Pencil Color pencil or Makers
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Collage single line self portraits

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You will need : paper pen pencil scissors glues stick sharpener color pencils scrap paper (collage materials)
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Artists of the week Elisa H. Hamilton & David Anthony

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Elisa H. Hamilton  🏡 Boston  @ elisahhamilton https://www.elisahhamilton.com/   David Anthony 🏡Chicago @davidanthonyart https://www.davidanthonyart.com/
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Artist of the Week : Sabrina Dorsainvil

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CHECK OUT HER WORK ON INSTAGRAM  @oh_sabeedee Sabrina Dorsainvil
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