7th grade objectives:

The student will be able to:

Learning Activity

Michigan Visual Art Standard

Graphic Design

 

 

Creat a poster using pen and ink and a style of calligraphy.

Calligraphy and Fine Handwriting Art In Action  page 30-31

Compugraphic: The ARt and Technology of Typography

MS 1:2 Select and use the visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to communicate ideas.

Use the Principles of Art to design a Hyperstudio Stack

Understanding Art pages 8-11

 

MS 2:5 Integrate organizational structures and characteristics to create art for different purposes

Sculpture

 

 

Make a vessel with a lid inspired by a pre-columbian culture

Scholastic Art Magazine,

PReColumbian ceramics

MS 2:4 Use subjects, themes and symbols that communicate intended meaning in artworks.

Make a Plaster Mask with inspiration from the Chinese Opera Masks

Crafts from other Countries pages 8-9

Mask examples

MS 4:3 Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

Make a sculpture from plaster, showing the interior space between two cupped hands.

Art in Action page 138-9 Handwarming sculpture

-Archeologist handout

5:4 Describe ways in which other disciplines taught in school interrelate with the arts.

Textiles

 

 

Know and compare the characteristics of artworks from Native American cultures

Create textile art.

Understanding Art pages 194-99

Art and Man, native American Art

MS 4:1 Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures

Design a Pouch in the manner of the White Hmong people of Laos.

Crafts from other countries, pages 66-67

 

MS 4:1 Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

Miscellaneous    

Make a festive decoration art, such as that of a hanging decoration from Indonesia

 

 

 

 

MS 4:2 Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical context

Describe and compare skills involved in arts-related and visual careers

Understanding Art Pages 297-303

Career reports

7th grade Bibliography

Behind the Scenes with Wayne Thiebaud volume 6  First Features 800-229-8575

Bender, Julie “Talking about Art” DVD, I-movie production Dunewood Arts, Bridgman, MI, 2004

Brommer, Gerald  Basic Perspective Drawing: Single Concepts in Art, video by Crystal Productions, PO Box 2159, Glenview Illinois, 60025

Edwards, Betty  Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Freeman, Linda Faith Ringgold: The Last Story Quilt, video ISBN 1-882660-00-5

Gallo, Max The Poster in History, New American Library: Times Mirror, 1975

Heirstein, Judy  Crafts from Other Countries, Frank Schagger Publications, Torrance, CA 1994, Pages 104-5 Tie Dye,

Howard, Judy Watercolor Painting: Letting it Happen, Part I: Wet and Spontaneous, video by Crystal Productions, PO Box 2159, Glenview Illinois, 60025

Hubbard, Guy Art in Action, Coronado Publishers, San Diego,1986

Merrill, Yvonne Hands on Asia Kits Publishing 1999 pages 22-23 Clay dish, pages 62-63 Indonesian Decoration, pages 66-67 Hmong Pouch, Pages 74-75 Japanese kite

Mittler, Ragans, Introducing Art, Glencoe, McGraw Hill, Woodland Hills, CA, 1999

Mittler, Ragans, Understanding Art, Glencoe, McGraw Hill, Woodland Hills, CA, 1999

Ringgold, Faith, Linda Freeman and Nancy Roucher, Talking to Faith Ringgold, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996  VCR

Sax Color Power Glasses and Information,  Sax Arts and Crafts, PO Box 510710