Art 133: Community

21st Century Approach: Community-Based

Art Education

By: Jordan, Rachel,

Marisela, Sarai
Lesson Overview:
Students will learn about what makes up their communities while
reflecting on what role they have in their community. They will create an
imprint of their own impact in the community. In doing so, they will be
able to understand ultimately what a community is.
 Community-Based Art Education:
Discussion Questions:

1. How will you demonstrate the concept of community to your classroom?

2. What Community-Based Art practices will you use?
3. Did the reading elicit any childhood memories on how your teachers
incorporated the concept of community in the classroom? (Ex: A garden,
an about me?)
Big Idea: Community
21st Century Approach: Community-Based Art Education

KEY CONCEPTS:

Art is connected to life

Art reflects and informs culture
Artists utilizes basic formal structures (Elements and Principles) within an
artwork to communicate meaning, ideas, and narratives
Underlying social structures (un) consciously guide the creation of
artworks within communities
Inspiration Artist: Federico Herrero
Studio Investigation:
Building a Community
About Federico Herrero
Born in 1978 in San Jose, Costa Rica, Federico Herrero studied painting at the
Pratt Institute in New York from 1997 to 1998. Beginning in 2001, Federico
worked on commissioned art in Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, Sweden,
Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Federico ventures outside of Latin
American styles, but still captures the genuinity of Conceptualism, murals, and
geometric abstraction.

Source: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/federico-herrero
http://www.artbabble.org/video/guggenheim/artist-federic
o-herrero-his-residency-project-south-london-gallery
https://youtu.be/zd3ciZC2jxo
Community

Essential Questions
What is community?
What is a community made of?
How does art tie into community?
How can artists help their communities?
 Community Objectives

TSW

Represent how they individually fit into their community through

artmaking
Create a representation of how they see themselves in the community or
how the community is represented to them
Understand how they represent their community as an individual.
 Learning Objectives:

TSW be able to
Create an artwork within an outline of their hand representing their identity
within their community by using line, shape, color, and unity which will
become a component of a Community Mural
Materials
Paper
Markers
Paint
Crayons
Pencils
Sharpies
Scissors
Other Inspirations
 Studio Instructions
1. Have students trace hand onto colored paper of choice or onto base paper
2. Students will have free choice in decorating their hand in a way that
represents their identity within their community
3. Have students write their definition of community within the
surrounding space of hand
4. With help from teacher, glue hands onto large sheet of butcher paper to
create a Community Mural
Citations:
Federico Herrero. Guggenheim, 1 Sept. 2017,
www.guggenheim.org/map-artist/federico-herrero.