Art 2 · Week 26 · Art and Contemporary Issues
Coachella Valley Muralists
Students study valley muralists and connect their public work to community identity and pride.
- Students will
- Students compare how Coachella Valley muralists use public art to express community identity and connect one mural to its place and history.
- SEL skill
- Describe a mural from the viewpoint of someone else
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by taking the perspective of community members who live beside a mural.
- Content focus
- Coachella Valley muralists
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see the world and caring about their experience, especially when it differs from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- VA:Cn11.1.HSII: Visual Arts, Connecting, Anchor Standard 11 (Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding), High School Accomplished
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Accomplished
More social awareness activities for Art 2
- Empathy in Response Social awarenessStudents record personal and empathetic responses to a natural or built place in the valley and compare responses with a partner.
- Art Across Cultures Social awarenessStudents compare how art is used in different societies and connect those uses to art in their own community today.
- Día de los Muertos in Context Social awarenessStudents research the history and meaning of Día de los Muertos imagery and practice asking respectful questions about traditions that are not their own.
- Art and Social History Social awarenessStudents connect a work from the Chicano art movement to its social and political moment and explain how it still speaks to communities today.
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