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Lesson Title Art Form Grade Level

Collage College Digital Photography Photography 3 11th and 12th

Grade Level Theme Key Concept Link

Social and Contemporary Issues Issues/Concerns News, Nature, World.

Challenge

Assemble a collage that depicts an issue or conflict that you are affected by.

Assessment Standards

COMMUNICATEExplore Theme - Investigate and develop personal voice, connection, and sense of ownership to-ward social and contemporary issues. Research - Investigate multiple slides of social and contemporary issues to inform artmaking.

CREATEArt Forms - Develop a Personal voice by intentionally selecting art forms to communicate meaning in art worksComposition - Investigate and experiment with compositional structures to inform and communi-cate meaning in artworks. Color - Explore and synthesize the use of color choices to represent meaning and inform artmak-ing.

RESPONDSubject and Formal Qualities - Identify how materials, content, and formal qualities contribute to the meaning of nontraditional artworks. Evaluation - Critically reflect on the development of a personal vision in artworks.

CONNECTExplore Theme - Investigate and describe how artworks address social issues of the time. Context - Identify and analyze artworks created in response to a chosen cultural or historical issue or event.

Supplies and Materials Images and Resources

Photoshop, Digital Cameras, 8.5 x 11 paper. Matboard/board to mount the images on. Card stock or construction paper. Glue. Double Sided tape.

Prehistoric Museum Near Palm Springs, 1982photographic collage, 84 1/2 x 56 1/2 in. Photographing Annie Leibovitz While She Is Photograph-ing Me, Mojave Desert, Feb. 1983.

Merced River,Yosemite Valley, Sept. 1982DAVID HOCKNEY

Time Allotment Alternate Approaches

4 Periods Illustrator

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Lesson Session

Collage College 1

Engage

• Show students this video introducing a photo collage by artist David Hockney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD123svCFHQ

• Introduce the challenge. o Think about some issues or conflicts, either in your life or the world, that you are

affected by. Why does it matter to you?• Why is this an issue or conflict? Who does it affect? Why should we care?

o Students can either take a moment they experienced or they witnessed. .• Show some of Hockney’s work

Develop

• Print out one big image and cut it up into pieces, ask students to assemble to photograph in an interesting way.

• Go over placement and collage techniques.o Where should each picture go? Does it matter? What is the big idea for the photo-

graph?

Create

• Have students brainstorm 3 issues • Do some research about those issues. Maybe have each student find a work of art that ad-

dresses an issue. (Doesn’t have to be just photo)• If solid idea is presented by the end of class, begin shooting.

Reflect

• Reflection questions to be asked by teacher: What issue can you think of that you or other people are affected by? Why do you care so much? What does it mean to you? How are you going to arrange the pictures?

• Verbal Self-Assessment Checko Have you brainstormed or sketched solutions for your collage? (if not, do it for

homework)o Did you find an artist’s work that addressed an issue/problem?

Lesson Session

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Collage College 2

Engage

• Review the expectations and the challenge. • Talk about prototype. What is the issue I made my collage about? What approach did i

take to placing the photographs?

Develop

• Show students how set the printer for different size prints. • Think about size and materials. Could this probably incorporate other media, not just pho-

tography?• Review rule of thirds and the importance of balance.

Create

• Students can go photograph (if their issue is related to the school)• Share sketches/ideas with partner before moving on. • Remind students that they had to pick one issue and have an idea of how they hope to ar-

range the photographs in the work.

Reflect

• Check in with teacher with sketch/idea for the project. • How are you going to photograph? Is there a place you can go to and find the issue/prob-

lem in your environment? How do you plan on creating the collage and how big do you wish to go?

• Ideally this class session will end right before the weekend, so students can go and photo-graph what they need.

Lesson Session

Collage College 3

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Engage

• Have a few students share what they are working on. (Unedited, since its the first class back from the weekend)

• Review challenge

Develop

• Prepare printers with proper ink stock and paper type. • Review printing steps • Show some collage techniques, mainly finish? Matte/glossy finish.

Create

• Begin editing photographs/proof prints on regular printer paper. • Work on an appropriate way to crop/layer the photograph collage. • Begin to print final pieces.

Reflect

• Develop an outline for artist statements. • How much did you get done today? Do you still like your idea? Do you need to reshoot?

Lesson Session

Collage College 4

Engage

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• Assess how the class is doing. • What do you have left to do? How much more time do you need?

Develop

• In Photoshop, quickly review presets that they can use for all the images so that they have the same tone.

Create

• Studio day.• Print final images.• Arrange them in desired way. Glue down.• Finish Artist Statement

Reflect

• Hand in Artist Statement. • Hang work in the hallway.