4th Grade Art

Dinosaur Glass Fusing Magnet Date: March 18-22 On Teacher Table Big Concepts: What is art? Teks: Art Grade 4:

Perception: 4.1A communicate ideas about self, family, school, and community, using sensory knowledge and life experiences. 4.1 B choose appropriate vocabulary to discuss the use of art elements such as color, texture, form, line, space, and value and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity.

Creative Expression/Performance: 4.2A Integrate a variety of ideas about self, life events, family, and community in original artworks. 4.2B Design original artworks. 4.2C Invent ways to produce artworks and to explore photographic imagery, using a variety of art media and materials.

Historical/Cultural Heritage: 4.3A Identify simple main ideas expressed in art. 4.3B Compare and contrast selected artworks from a variety of cultural settings. 4.3C Identify roles of art in American society.

Response/Evaluation: 4.4A Describe intent and form conclusions about personal artworks. 4.4B Interpret ideas and moods in original artworks, portfolios, and exhibitions by peers and others.

Materials: 1in by 1in white glass, multi color small shapes glass, multi color sand glass, glue, magnet Content Objective:

• Students learn about contemporary glass artwork. • Students learn about artist Dale Chihuly. • Students learn how glass can create tack fused magnet

Vocabulary Objective:

• Students will be able to tell the difference of the different types of glass Dichroic Glass, Opaque Glass, and translucent by look.

• Students will be able to understand the difference between tack fuse, slump fuse, and full fuse.

• Students will learn about organic and geometric shapes by creating shapes out of glass paint and aluminum foil.

Project Objective: Students will create a dinosaur on white glass to be tack fused into a magnet.

Activities: Introduction:

4th Grade Art

Students learn about contemporary glass art of Dale Chihuly. Dale Chihuly biography from his home page:

His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including eleven honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known series of works, among them Cylinders and Baskets in the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Venetians, and Persians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s. He is also celebrated for large architectural installations. In 1986, he was honored with a solo exhibition, Dale Chihuly objets de verre, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, in Paris. In 1995, he began Chihuly Over Venice, for which he created sculptures at glass factories in Finland, Ireland, and Mexico, then installed them over the canals and piazzas of Venice.

In 1999, Chihuly mounted a challenging exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; more than 1 million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. Chihuly’s lifelong affinity for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. His Garden Cycle began in 2001 at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. Chihuly exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, in 2005. Other major exhibition venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2011.

Project: 1. Students pick color and shapes to create a dinosaur. 2. Students glue those shapes onto a white square.

Checks for Understanding: Students share their glass fussing describing the Dinosaur they have created with their fusing.