Name of Project: Collaboration Project

Grade Level or Age of Participant: Adult Artists of All Abilities

School, Teacher and Classroom: MSS MN (Fresh Eye Arts), Analeise Jarvi-Beamer

MCAD Teaching Artist: Casey Grengs

Number of Students: Planned for 9, 3 were present that day.

Visual Arts Content or Standards: Movement, Line, Shape, Color, Mark Making

Overview of Project:

Artists will create individual 2D pieces that will be adhered to a larger sheet of paper. The students can choose to follow the prompt of creating a piece that is inspired by a happy dream they recently had or go off on their own intuition. Artists have the choice if they want to cut their individual pieces into unique shapes or sticking with the original rectangle shape of mixed media paper handed to them. Once each artist is done with their individual pieces they will be able to decide where to place their piece on the larger collective final piece.

“Big Ideas”/ Essential Question(s): What is your creative impulse telling you to make?

Student Outcome Objectives:

Artists will:

  1. Explore the creative, intuitive process

  2. Explore collaborating.

  3. Explore new media and mixed media (optional)

Prior Knowledge: Ability to create marks on paper.

Lesson Preparation Timeline:

  1. Complete rough draft of PBM

  2. Share with Aki and AJ

  3. Revise from feedback received

  4. Gather and drop off materials at site location

  5. Teach lesson

Student Work

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Additional Resources:
23 Collaborative Art Projects That Bring out Everyone’s Creative Side

Teaching with Community

The Art of Collaboration with KeFe | KQED Arts

Collaborative Art with Amy Franceschini | KQED Arts

Assessment:
Did the artist create marks on the provided paper for the individual 2D piece?

Did the artist create thumbnail sketches?

Did the artist decide where to place their individual piece on the collective piece?

Did the artist experiment with materials?

Is there movement in the piece?

What is the mark making like?

What colors did the artist choose?

Materials: Mixed media paper, poster board, glue (optional: pairs of scissors, paint brushes, sketch sheets, pencils, erasers, paint, markers)

Learning Activities and Timing

  1. Hand out materials throughout lesson as artists need

  2. Open with a presentation of examples of collaborative artworks, introduce project (10 minutes)

  3. Artists sketch initial ideas (10 minutes)

  4. Drawing, marking and cutting individual artwork (30 minutes)

  5. Placing, glueing and formatting collective final piece (20 minutes)

  6. Reflection (20 minutes)

Teaching Artist Reflection

Because of my virtual teaching circumstances, I am heavily reliant on AJ to get the physical parts of the project completed.

I hope for this project to open for exploration, but because of its openness and experimental nature, I feel like it might intimidate some artists.

The artists work will be shared virtually on the MCAD TA website.

For feedback, I will ask the artists and AJ at the end of the project how they felt about the experience.