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| Memory is what links
the present to the past. Commemoration through public monuments,
oral histories, musical tributes, and memorials are outlets for
understanding and appreciating the events of the past in an effort
to better understand the events that occur in the present. In making
these events or people tangible, art can provide a critical forum
in which to explore the stories we tell about ourselves, those
around us, and those who came before us. These collective stories
also suggest the things we have lost as a society and the things
we desire. The lessons in this topic explore cultural identities
and storytelling. |
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remaking
myths
Subject Area: Language Arts
Artists: Hancock,
Ritchie, Sikander, Smith, Wilson
Often inspired by the stories that surround them, visual artists
create new narratives using a variety of media and materials. This
lesson explores how artists are influenced by and re-interpret world
myths, religious stories, and historical tales to create new stories,
events, and characters representing a contemporary perspective.
Students will look at the imagery and symbolism used in traditional
myths and create their own mythological characters and stories based
on the events in their own lives. (Updated
for Season Three!) |
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honoring
heroes & history
Subject Area: Social Studies
Artists: Bourgeeois, Lin,
Puryear, Smith, Suh
Who decides who or what deserves to be commemorated? In remembering the
past, certain stories and heroes have been selected as part of the larger
historical narrative while others have been overlooked. Using local and
national public sculptures, monuments, and memorials, students will explore
how artists create works that commemorate people & events and how their work
relates to more traditional public monuments and statues. |
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new
rituals
Subject Area: Visual & Performng Arts
Artists: Antoni, Nauman,
Orozco
What are the daily rituals that define who we are and what we do? Repetition
and the performative aspects of our daily lives are explored in this lesson
that asks students to pay attention to the ways they create their own
personal rituals, habits, and routines. Drawing from artists who incorporate
personal rituals into their work, this lesson will encourage students
to record the rituals they participate in and to develop a new or existing
ritual into a work of art. |
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"It's
one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone
well together because both believe in the physical manifestation
of the spiritual world, that it's through the physical world
that you have a spiritual life, that you have to be here physically
in a body."
— Kiki
Smith
“All of my objects sort of walk the line between
sculpture, performance, and relic.”
— Janine
Antoni
“ It's our problem not to see certain individuals,
or not to see difference or individuality. I just want to recognize them. Let's
say if there's one statue at the plaza, or a hero who helped or protected our
country, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who helped him and worked
with him and there's no recognition for them.”
— Do-Ho
Suh
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