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High School: Art I In this lesson, high school students learn about the five types of rhythm and investigate how rhythm has been used as one of the principles of art, especially by printmaking artists, including Elizabeth Catlett and Andy Warhol. Elizabeth Catlett’s prints depict the lives of her people, both Black and Mexican, including their shared labor and food. Students will make connections between Catlett’s print designs and their own community by creating an artwork about a food that brings people together in their lives--with their friends, family, traditions, or culture. The students' final printmaking projects display four prints in different colors on a black background, similar to Andy Warhol’s multiple print arrangements, giving students another opportunity to create a rhythmic arrangement and creating a more complex and intentional final product from simple prints.
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Elementary: Grade 2 Resilience is increased by having self-worth and remembering how we are connected and shaped by our family, community, and all we value and love. Making self-portraits that include those connections gives an opportunity to recognize and communicate those ideas to ourselves and others. Students view and compare self-portraits by assorted artists in different mediums and styles and interpret meaning in the artists’ choices beyond a likeness in appearance. Students are presented with the idea that all skin colors are variations of brown—lighter, darker, pinker, etc., and their skin color can be mixed and adjusted by starting with the brown of their paper. Students respond by making connections to their own lives and communities and creating a self-portrait that includes references to their lived experience. Students use their choice of drawing and painting mediums with an option to use colored and printed paper collage for hair and clothing.