LESSON 8: "Altering a Place" Multi-Color/Layer Stencil and Silkscreen Poster
-screen printing ink on heavy paper
Description:
For this lesson students will learn about artists who have moved from the canvas or the print studio with the intention of altering the world around them. “Environmental Art” and “Street Art” movements take different approaches to altering the landscape and urban locales. Advertisements (billboards) and Social/Political flyers and posters also alter one’s sense of place. Students will select a place that they wish to alter (hypothetically), for the purpose of fine art, to provoke discussion, to promote public involvement, or to communicate another type of message. Students will design a small poster that would be hypothetically used to alter the place. Designs will include both image and text and make a stylistic reference to one of the artists presented.
Objectives:
Artists' Examples: [Still working on this list]
- Banksy
- Barry Magee
- Sheppard Fariey
- AVANT
- Jean Claude and Christo
- Andy Goldsworthy
Defining Terms:
Street Art-
Earthworks-
Wheat pasting-
Stenciling-
Graffiti-
Materials and Preparations:
Description:
For this lesson students will learn about artists who have moved from the canvas or the print studio with the intention of altering the world around them. “Environmental Art” and “Street Art” movements take different approaches to altering the landscape and urban locales. Advertisements (billboards) and Social/Political flyers and posters also alter one’s sense of place. Students will select a place that they wish to alter (hypothetically), for the purpose of fine art, to provoke discussion, to promote public involvement, or to communicate another type of message. Students will design a small poster that would be hypothetically used to alter the place. Designs will include both image and text and make a stylistic reference to one of the artists presented.
Objectives:
Artists' Examples: [Still working on this list]
- Banksy
- Barry Magee
- Sheppard Fariey
- AVANT
- Jean Claude and Christo
- Andy Goldsworthy
Defining Terms:
Street Art-
Earthworks-
Wheat pasting-
Stenciling-
Graffiti-
Materials and Preparations:
- Hairdryers
- Masking tape (You will need a LOT!)
- Magazine or catalogue pages folded into vertical strips (for masking off the edges of the screen)
- Water-based screen printing inks (put into plastic squeeze bottles)- textile ink on paper, sometimes causes bubbles and bleeds but it generally works well.
- Squeegees
- Old towels for drying screens
- Photo emulsion
- Exposure units
- “Dark” room for emulsion application and exposure
- Black trash bags
- Paper and newsprint for practice prints
- Transparencies and Black and White photocopier
- Sharpies
- Frisket (or clear contact paper)
- Xacto knifes
- Light boxes (for tracing multiple layers)
- Hinge clamp boards (for print registration)