A Life Made By Hand
The simplest objects can turn into art when you draw from life, nature, and personal passion.
Resources
- Standard art room materials such as: scrap paper, glue, scissors, paint, markers, wire, string, yarn, tape, etc.
- Cardboard, milk cartons, empty cracker/cereal boxes, etc.
- Recyclable of all kinds such as: cardboard egg cartons, small plastic trays from the lunchroom, etc. (Have students bring a wide variety of re-purposed items from home)
- A Life Made By Hand: The Story Of Ruth Asawa written and illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino
- Art Making with MoMA: 20 Activities for Kids Inspired by Artists at The Museum of Modern Art by Cari Frisch & Elizabeth Margulies
- Garbage Flowers: Green & Groovy Crafts by Eric Lewis
Fine Art Standards
- STRAND: CREATE (4.V.CR.) Students will generate artistic work by conceptualizing, organizing, and completing their artistic ideas. They will refine original work through persistence, reflection, and evaluation (Standards 4.V.CR.1–4).
- STANDARD 4.V.CR.1: Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.
- STANDARD 4.V.CR.2: Collaboratively set goals and create an artwork that is meaningful and shows the intent of the makers.
- STANDARD 4.V.CR.3: Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches by utilizing and caring for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others when making art, and by documenting, describing, and representing regional constructed environments.
- STANDARD 4.V.CR.4: Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.
Integrated Standards
- STANDARD 1 Students will understand how geography influences community location and development.
- OBJECTIVE 3 Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.
- a. Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry).
- c. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle).
Objectives
To create original works of art, in the spirit of Ruth Asawa, using materials that are reusable and recyclable.