Grade Level
9-12th (Traditional Schedule, 50 minute periods)
Characteristics of the Learners
This printmaking curriculum is geared towards high school students in a public or private education setting. These units are appropriate for a semester or year for beginning through advanced level students. Lessons will incorporate techniques such as: collage, photocopy transfer, collograph, frottage, relief, intaglio, and silkscreen processes. These lessons will build on students’ previous experiences in art (if any) and their knowledge of the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design.
Rationale
This curriculum explores the interdisciplinary connections and translation of one’s sensory observations into visual expression using various printmaking techniques. Lessons will begin with preliminary exercises in observation (using each of the five senses) that lead students through experimental methods of non-objective recording. These records will become the basis of their finished works and will reveal the student’s subjective associations. For example, students will be asked to analyze the taste of black pepper to discover if it is sharp, full, permeable or spiky. With these associations in mind/memory students will translate the ephemeral sensations into an image on a plate using found textures, impressed or raised expressions of line and stencil shapes. Concerned with experimentation, collaboration and employing chance elements, these lessons will introduce students to playful and improvisational methods of Artmaking. Students will also encounter a variety of contemporary and historical examples that show how artists use their sensory perceptions in Artmaking.
Historical/Cultural Context
This unit fits into the broad study of Science, Artmaking and Art History. This unit requires students to have fresh observations of the natural world around them and to integrate their understanding subjectively and objectively. Students will consider how historical and contemporary artists have presented their sensory perceptions through a variety of visual means and methods.
9-12th (Traditional Schedule, 50 minute periods)
Characteristics of the Learners
This printmaking curriculum is geared towards high school students in a public or private education setting. These units are appropriate for a semester or year for beginning through advanced level students. Lessons will incorporate techniques such as: collage, photocopy transfer, collograph, frottage, relief, intaglio, and silkscreen processes. These lessons will build on students’ previous experiences in art (if any) and their knowledge of the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design.
Rationale
This curriculum explores the interdisciplinary connections and translation of one’s sensory observations into visual expression using various printmaking techniques. Lessons will begin with preliminary exercises in observation (using each of the five senses) that lead students through experimental methods of non-objective recording. These records will become the basis of their finished works and will reveal the student’s subjective associations. For example, students will be asked to analyze the taste of black pepper to discover if it is sharp, full, permeable or spiky. With these associations in mind/memory students will translate the ephemeral sensations into an image on a plate using found textures, impressed or raised expressions of line and stencil shapes. Concerned with experimentation, collaboration and employing chance elements, these lessons will introduce students to playful and improvisational methods of Artmaking. Students will also encounter a variety of contemporary and historical examples that show how artists use their sensory perceptions in Artmaking.
Historical/Cultural Context
This unit fits into the broad study of Science, Artmaking and Art History. This unit requires students to have fresh observations of the natural world around them and to integrate their understanding subjectively and objectively. Students will consider how historical and contemporary artists have presented their sensory perceptions through a variety of visual means and methods.