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Students will be learning about Olek, a contemporary artist who often works collaboratively in
public spaces to bring about awareness.
3rd
9
9:00-10:50
N/A
2D
Cultural
Subjective
3D
Structural
4D
Postmodern
Artwork
Artist
Audience
World
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
1.
Create a woven section on a handmade loom using at least two found objects. VA:Cr3.1.3a
2.
Orally explain how a specific art medium can affect an artworks meaning by discussing why you chose at
least one found object for your weaving. VA:Re8.1.3a
3.
Collaborate on a woven section of a collaborative sculpture that is at least two square feet in size.
VA:Cr1.2.3a
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TEACHER MATERIALS
PRINTED:
images of artist
works
teacher examples
name tags for
students
thumbtacks
STUDENT MATERIALS
traditional weaving
materials: yarn, fabric, natural
fibers
found objects:
plastic bags, leaves, sticks,
cds, corn husks cut into strips,
corn fuzz, flowers...etc
colored pencils
foam
scissors
tacky glue
ARTISTS IN CONTEXT
Key Artists
Olek
EE = Early Elementary grades K-3 LE = Late Elementary grades 4-6 MS = Middle School grades 6-9
EHS = Early High School grades 10-11 LHS = Late High School grade 12
Large sticks
found objects
large piece of
paper cut and ready for
weaving
acrylic paint
wire
wire-cutters
strips of different
colored papers
wire
Key Artworks
Olek
Where are these works installed? Why didnt she just hang her work up
in a gallery? What does the location of the artworks installation have to
do with its meaning? What kind of research do you think Olek does
before deciding what to make?
EE = Early Elementary grades K-3 LE = Late Elementary grades 4-6 MS = Middle School grades 6-9
EHS = Early High School grades 10-11 LHS = Late High School grade 12
Language Functions
Language Demands
Language Tasks and
Activities
Language Supports
Collaborative art- multiple people or artists working together as a team to make work
installation
Installation- three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform
the perception of a space
Syntax
Discourse
Students will analyze Oleks work while using the terms collaborative and installation.
1. Teacher will introduce Oleks work by showing an image of Olek and a
team of three others carrying a large piece of crocheted artwork.
2. Teacher will explain the word collaborative and ask questions such as,
how do you think working with multiple people or artists can help an artwork?
Can more hands get more done? Do you think all artists completely agree on one
idea when they work together?
3. Teacher will show images of Olek as she installs her work in various
places.
4. Teacher will explain the word installation and ask, Why didnt Olek
install this in a gallery? What kind of feelings would you get, looking at this
artwork from the street?
5. Students will say both words out loud as a class.
Weaving:
demonstration, hands-on student
-students will come back to their weavings from last week. Teacher will give a
involvement, group discussion
demo on how to start a particular material on the loom. Teacher will also give a
demo on how to tie a new material onto one that has ended. Teacher will tell the
students to start with yarn - because its thin - to keep the tension right on the
loom. Teacher will make it clear that students need to have at least two found
objects in their weavings by writing this objective on the board.
-Teacher will go around asking each student to explain what the materials the
student chose mean.
-students who finish early can decorate a strip of paper for the class paper
weaving
Launch
Collaborative Sculpture:
-Teacher will explain that this new work will be displayed as an installation, so
we are going to figure out a way to use our weavings to transform a space.
Teacher and students will leave the room as a class to find a place in the
building to install our work.
-Students will use scraps to weave and transform a space near the CVA.
Students will form a team: two students to cut scraps, small groups of students
to tie knots in scraps to make long strands, one student to pass the strands,
another student to do the weaving
Closure
Yarn web activity (last 5 minutes of class):
- Teacher will ask refresher questions such as, What did you learn today? What did
you make? What new artists do you know?
- Teacher will gather students together in a circle. Students will pass the ball of yarn
to make a weaving of connections by sharing their sentence
Instruction Methods
hands-on student involvement, group
discussion
REFERENCES
Rojo, J., & Harrington, S. P. (2015, March 25). Gender, Caste, And Crochet: OLEK Transforms A Shelter In Delhi. Huffington Post. Retrieved
from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaime-rojo-steven-harrington/olek-womens-shelter-delhi_b_6935794.html
Olek- Biography. (2015, July 30). Retrieved October 5, 2015, from http://culture.pl/en/artist/olek
* Developed and written by (Whitney Johnson), Art Education, Illinois State University, 2015 *
EE = Early Elementary grades K-3 LE = Late Elementary grades 4-6 MS = Middle School grades 6-9
EHS = Early High School grades 10-11 LHS = Late High School grade 12