Unit Overviews
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In this unit, students explore how identity can be communicated through visual form by examining different approaches to mask-making and self-portraiture. Through research, material experimentation, and guided skill-building, students investigate how artists express personal narratives, cultural connections, and symbolic meaning. They then develop their own ideas to design and construct an identity mask that represents layered aspects of who they are, using intentional choices in structure, form, and surface treatment. Throughout the unit, students reflect on their growth as artists, considering how creative decisions, technical challenges, and personal insights shape both their artwork and their understanding of identity.
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In this unit, students explore how narratives emerge when written genres and visual genres interact. They engage in illustration challenges, design ABC illustrations, create blackout poetry drawings, and analyze text-based artworks to understand how meaning can be constructed through different creative approaches. Building from this experimentation, students plan and create an idiom-inspired watercolor illustration that communicates narrative through composition, symbolism, and intentional visual choices. Throughout the unit, they brainstorm ideas, practice techniques, interpret language visually, and refine decisions using feedback to deepen both their narrative thinking and technical skill. Through reflection, students consider how communication, audience, and genre shape the stories they tell—not only in the idiom project, but across their artistic process.
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While utilizing observational techniques and reflecting on their skills, students explore a variety of two-dimensional materials while drawing from still lives, environments, and the human form.
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As an explorations of abstract art, students research a variety of Modern artists, document their experimentations, and create sculptures from 100+ of the same found objects,
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