AED 812: Teaching
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Unit Title: Race and Art Activism
Creator: Eleanor Voyvodich
Grade Level: 6-12 (8th*)
Subject: Visual Arts
Big Ideas:
Race is a social construct that has large implications for our daily lives and lifestyle. Art Activism can bring social change through awareness and education.
Objectives:
*Students will understand that race is a socially constructed idea. Students will study race in relation to media portrayal and perpetuance of racial bias, political agendas, housing (in)equity, wealth (in)equality, the education “gap,” food (in)equity, and civil rights.
*Students will write and discuss connections to race and draw evidence-based conclusions about how the social construct has affected their lives.
*Students will create a social activist art collage that uses repositioning, spotlighting, overlaying, remixing of imagery to create a comment on the social construct of race in the society of the United States, Homewood, or the world.
Rationale: Race and its reality as a social construct is a highly avoided topic, especially in schools, but one with enormous effects on our lifestyles as a consequence of continued racial privilege and oppression. As a white teacher, I know it is common to ignore the racial identities of students, but acknowledging race and examining it from an academic standpoint can not only empower children but spark a drive for social awareness and change for future generations. This unit will allow students to visually communicate their racial truth.
PA State Standards:
9.1.8.B Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
9.1.8.E Communicate a unifying theme or point of view through the production of works in the arts.
9.2.8.A. Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.
9.3.8.A Know and use the critical process of the examination of works in the arts and humanities. • Compare and contrast • Analyze • Interpret • Form and test hypotheses • Evaluate/form judgments
9.4.8.B B. Compare and contrast informed individual opinions about the meaning of works in the arts to others
Essential Questions:
How has/does/will race affect your life?
How does the system of race as a social construct give privilege to some and oppress others?
How do we comment on, question, and change the construct of race?
Unit Timeline: 5 Weeks
Week 1- Race as a social construct creates inequity, Week 2- Media and Societal Wealth, Week 3- Research
Week 4&5- Activist creation and Critique
