Art Methods Syllabus- Course Outline

Overview Assignments

TEXT Resources
Resources

Lessons and Journals:
Jan 23 - Jan 30
Feb 6 - Feb 13 - Feb 20 - Feb 27
Mar 6 - Mar 20 - Mar 27
Apr 3 - Apr 10 - Apr 17 - Apr 24
May 1

REQUIRED Reading: Chapters
5. Creating Objectives
6. Integration in the 3 Domains
7. Reading and Language Art

Browse Crizmac catalog

Sign in 6:30 pm
Computer room

Video: Pocahontas/Disney

Small groups: key points

1 Art in Society and Schools
2 Art as Art, Design Fundamentals
3 Teachers Role
4 Motivating Learning

Presentation Requirements
Art Show Visit Requirement

Project Displays

Art Stations
1. Dream Catcher
2. Wash design-ghord
function of art
3. Sand painting symmetrical figure with 3 sided border
4. Story board: your power animal (shadow puppet) story

REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY
Summary of each assigned chapter
Brief eval of all chapter websites citing specific discipline relevancy
Journals from 2 classes to be turned in at the start of 1st Feb class in folder/ optional paper of CD

REQUIRED
Art Assignment:
To be turned in at the start of Feb 13 class (one of the three project with a printed rubric/self-evaluation)
Rubric ART Assignment

Activity Planning: Unit Native American Indian CULTURE
Loan Oak Elementary School Cultures - KY Standard

2.26 - Through the arts & humanities, students recognize that although people are different, they share some common experiences and attitudes.
2.25 - In the products they make and the performances they present, students show that they understand how time, place, and society influence the arts and humanities such as languages, literature, and history.

Student work designed by art specialist Roy Smith
http://loneoak.mccracken.k12.ky.us/les/Teachers/rsmith/home.htm

Connecting art and dreams with symbols

Dream Catchers : an historic symbol

http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/dreamcatcher.htm

http://www.turtlefeathers.com/tutorial/dream-catcher/

Connecting art and nature- gourds - sand - charcoal-chalk

Gourds (containers, instruments, )

Sand painting

http://www.stanleybluejay.com/Elem%20Web%20Folder/pohl/native_american_projects.htm

Elementary Native American Projects
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/socsci/philosophy/world/sandpainting.htm

Most sandpaintings are made during the daytime, but a few are created after dark. Most are made upon a base of fine sand  that is carried into the hooghan and laid down on a layer one  to three  inches deep upon the floor.
While the colors  can vary, the four  principal colors , white , blue , yellow  and black , are always present. These colors are symbolically associated with the directions:
white  with the dawn  and the east ,
blue with the midday sky  and the south ,
yellow with evening twilight and the west , and
black  with the night  sky  and the north.
Some dimensions and the balance between certain figures must be very exact in order for the sandpainting to be effective, for the proper balance to be achieved.

Therefore careful measurements are made using tape measures and pieces of string which are then stretched tight at the proper location and snapped to make an accurate straight line in the base sand  as a guide line. In this way, figures are kept in proper alignment and proper proportion. In order to make the image three-dimensional, the figure painting  on the backs of the figures is laid down first and, when completed, the proper colored sand  is laid on representing the body . Then the figure painting  on the front side of the bodies is constructed on top of these, assuring that the complete representation of the Holy People is made. This will more surely insure their presence and aid in the ceremony.

To not to disturb the parts of the sandpainting that have been completed, the chanter and his assistants work outward from the center. If an error is made, that part of the image is covered with fresh sand and is begun again.

The sandpainting  is oriented so that the top is at the east  and is surrounded by a guardian on the other three sides. This protects the sandpainting from evil on those sides and allows strength and all good things (which come from the east with the dawn ) to enter.

The sandpainting derives its power to heal from the coexistence within the image of multiple layers of time, space, and meaning. The layers of time derive from the presence of the Holy People (in their images and their presence which is presumed); the layers of space derive from the careful construction of the back and front images of the Holy People ; the layers of meaning come from the myths and stories associated with these sandpaintings especially chosen for the situation at hand  in the same way that the parables of the Bible are used. The patient sits on the sandpainting , in direct contact with the images of the Holy People during the ceremony. They enter his body and thus help to heal him in this way.

It is important to note that the process itself of creating a sandpainting contributes to the healing because the act of drawing such symmetrical, orderly images focuses the thoughts of everyone present on the principles of balance and order. The patient can begin to believe in the possibility of his healing based on his belief in the ability of the perfectly executed sandpainting  to bring the Holy People and the power that they can bring to bear on his behalf.

The images become almost unrecognizable during the ceremony. After the ceremony the sand  is all swept up and removed from the hooghan. It is taken far away and ceremonially disposed of. It is still holy and possesses great power. If it is not properly treated, great harm may come.

Connecting art and OTHER customs: rainsticks, canoe

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/music/rainstick/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/na/canoe/

Connecting art and people

People Biographies
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people.html
Native American Biographies
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/aihmbioaz.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0813960.html
Crazy Horse, d. 1877
National Archive Photo

W ar chief of the Oglala Sioux. He was a prominent leader in the Sioux resistance to white encroachment in the mineral-rich Black Hills. When Crazy Horse and his people refused to go on a reservation, troops attacked (Mar. 17, 1876) their camp on Powder River. Crazy Horse was victorious in that battle as well as in his encounter with Gen. George Crook on the Rosebud River (June 17). He joined Sitting Bull and Gall in defeating George Armstrong Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25). In Jan., 1877, Gen. Nelson Miles attacked his camp, and Crazy Horse and his followers spent the rest of that winter in a state of near starvation. Numbering about 1,000, they surrendered at the Red Cloud agency in May. Imprisoned because he was rumored to be planning a revolt, Crazy Horse was killed while reportedly attempting to escape. His bravery and skill were generally acknowledged, and he is revered by the Sioux as their greatest leader. Near Custer, S.Dak., the Crazy Horse Memorial, depicting the chief mounted on horseback, has been under construction since 1948.
See biographies by M. Sandoz (1942, repr. 2004), E. A. Brininstool (1949), and L. McMurtry (1998).

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0839424.html
Pocahontas , c.1595–1617

Irene Bedard (Voice) Leigh Anthes, figure
http://www.animationarchive.net/Feature%20Films/Pocahontas/Model%20Sheets/index.php Model animation sheets

"Pocahontas" (Little Mischief) provides a valuable teachable moment. It is a plea for tolerant, respectful, and harmonious living in a world torn by ethnic strife and environmental degradation.
Pocahontas is a teacher of tolerance and respect for all life and foremost a "child of nature"--

Colors of the Wind
http://www.animationarchive.net/Feature%20Films/Pocahontas/Songlyrics/Colors%20Of%20The%20Wind/index.php

Lyrics written by Stephen Schwartz., voice Judy Kuhn
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so
much that you don't know?
You don't know...

You think you own whatever
land you land on
The earth is just a dead
thing you can claim
But I know every rock
and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit,
has a name

You think the only people who
are people
Are the people who look
and think like you
But if you walk the
footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you
never knew you never knew

Have you even heard the wolf
cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning
bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the
voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the
colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the
colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails
of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet
berries of the earth
Come roll in the riches
all around you
And for once,
never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river
are my brothers
The heron and the otter
are my friends
And we are all connected
to each other
In a circle,
in a hoop that never ends

How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down,
then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf
cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white
or copper-skinned
We need to sing with all
the voices of the mountain
Need to paint with all
the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all the
colors of the wind

Pocahontas , c.1595–1617, Native North American woman, daughter of Chief Powhatan. Pocahontas, meaning “playful one” (her real name was said to be Matoaka), used to visit the English in Virginia at Jamestown. According to the famous story, she saved the life of the captured Capt. John Smith just as he was about to have his head smashed at the direction of Powhatan. In 1613, Pocahontas was captured by Capt. Samuel Argall, taken to Jamestown, and held as a hostage for English prisoners then in the hands of her father. At Jamestown she was converted to Christianity and baptized as Rebecca. John Rolfe (1612 introduced cultivation of tobacco), a settler, gained the permission of Powhatan and the governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and married her in Apr., 1614. The union brought peace with the Native Americans for eight years. With her husband and several other Native Americans, Pocahontas went to England in 1616. There she was received as a princess and presented to the king and queen. She started back to America in 1617 but was taken ill and died at Gravesend, where she was buried. Pocahontas bore one son, Thomas Rolfe, who was educated in England, went (1640) to Virginia, and gained considerable wealth.
See P. L. Barbour, Pocahontas and Her World (1969); G. S. Woodward, Pocahontas (1969).

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0842870.html
Sacajawea , Sacagawea [–guwē'u] , or Sakakawea [–kuwē'u] , c.1784–1884?,

National Archive Photo
Native North American woman guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition and the only woman to accompany the party. She is generally called the Bird Woman in English, although this translation has been challenged, and there has been much dispute about the form of her Native American name. She was a member of the Shoshone, had been captured and sold to a Mandan, and finally was traded to Toussaint Charbonneau, one of whose wives she became. He was interpreter for the expedition. She proved invaluable as a guide and interpreter when Lewis and Clark reached the upper Missouri River and the mountains from which she had come. On the return journey she and Charbonneau left (1806) the expedition at the Mandan villages. While some historians date Sacajawea's death around 1812, there are others who claim that she was discovered by a missionary in 1875 and that she actually died in Wyoming in 1884.
See biography by H. P. Howard (1971).

Connecting art (light and shadow) ,"Power Animals" and literature

Everyone is thought to have a few of these guardian power animals or it is thought that the individual could not survive childhood. 

Animation for Kids Power Animals
http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/PowerAnimals/shuffle16.html

Cutting shapes. attaching wires on mesh screen for shadow puppets

Make a shadow puppet theater
http://www.osv.org/kids/crafts2.htm

How to make a puppet
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/commun/devising/shadowpuppets.html

What animal are you? What is your story?

• American Indian Myths
  http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0921477.html
• Legends and Myths
  http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
• Native American: Animal Symbols
  http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/asymbols.html
• North American Indian Mythology
  http://www.purgingtalon.com/nlm/worldmyth/northame.htm
• Symbol Dictionary
  http://www.kivatrading.com/symbol1.htm