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Art in Action (Implementation & Exhibition)

Length: 3 weeks

Students will:

  • Implement their plan from the previous unit
  • Stand up to injustice in their community with their art
  • Create and compile a collection of artwork centered around social justice within their community
  • Work collaboratively to assemble, publish, and present their work as a zine
  • Reflect on their growth as artists, activists, and people.

Standards

Anchor Standards

Supporting Standards:


Priority Goal

  • Students will be able to recognize their own social-emotional needs and understand their personal and collective actions have power to impact others outside of their own community

Essential Questions

  • When is art political?
  • What role does chaos play in the creative process?
  • What responsibilities do artists have to their community and their consumers?
  • What is community and what are the individual’s responsibility to the community as well as the community’s responsibility to the individual?
  • How can art change our beliefs?