Megan Stevenson

Professor Amber Ward

ART 133 Section 5/6 (AM)
September 10, 2015
Unit Paper 1
What is the big idea? According to Walker The big idea assumes primary importance
This unit the big idea is identity. Identity is what you perceive something or how something is
meant to be viewed. These last two weeks we created two studios that helped up capture
somethings identity. The first allowed you to freely draw a line, which in the essence was making
nothing of a line into a piece of art. With my piece, I saw a fish, and as I continued coloring a sea
of fish started to appear. I had at first a page with a long curvy line, and once I looked at this line
I captured its identity and colored an under the sea piece of art. The next studio allowed up some
free range to capture our own identity. Who am I? This was an interpretation of identity. I created
three personas I felt were who I was. This illustrated to me that identity is whatever we make of
it, and the options are endless.
In the classroom I would take this idea of identity and I would illustrate this with the first
studio we did, the automatic drawing. I believe that allowing a child to subconsciously create a
picture allows them to create identity. I think there are also many other art projects that can
capture something or someones identity. Something I would do with this unit idea is have each
person draw themselves, but I would ask them to emphasize one or two parts of themselves they
either like or dislike about themselves. I think this is a project that creatively allows them to
think of themselves in a different way.
References
Walker, S. (2001). Teaching meaning in artmaking. Worchester, MA: Davis.