Vocabulary

Symmetry/same

Asymmetry/different

Color

Design

Beautiful

Celebrate

Cultural

Ancestor

Mexico

Line

Pattern

Shape

Texture

Balance

Form

Huichol

Order

Curriculum designed by LiveArts Studio OBJECTIVES: To learn about the Mexican cultural celebration of Dia de los Muertos. To understand the crafts that contribute to this cultural celebration, and; To learn new art-making techniques through this culturally relevant celebration.

National Core Art Standards:

Anchor Standard: CREATING Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative art-making goals.

Essential Question: How does knowing the contexts histories, & traditions of art forms help us create works of art & design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

B. Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.

Essential Question: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

C. Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.

Essential Question: How do artists and designers care for & maintain materials, tools, & equipment? Why is it important for safety & health to understand & follow correct procedures in handling materials & tools? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

D. Enduring Understanding: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

Essential Question: How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?

Anchor Standard: PRESENTING Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

A. Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.

Essential Question: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?

Anchor Standard: RESPONDING Perceive and analyze artistic work.

A. Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.

Essential Question: How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?

Materials: pencil, markers, cardboard, scissors, construction paper, yarn, tissue

paper, markers, crayons, glue, sticks,

potentially a variety of found or reclaimed

items.

Anchor Standard: CONNECTING Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

A. Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

Essential Question: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?

Anchor Standard: CONNECTING Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

B. Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.

Essential Question: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS:

• A digital and oral presentation will be presented to students on the history and aesthetic of Dia de los Muertos. Instructor should be well versed on topic to generation rich discussion and field questions.

• Students will practice, then begin developing their design idea before using selected materials for each project.

• Listen to lecture; follow instructions; practice process of making object Las Calaveras (skulls): color, shape, form, balance Los Cadaveres/(corpses) Los Esqueletos (the skeletons): implied line, movement, balance Huichol (Yarn painting): implied line, movement, shape, color, texture Me Cara Bonita (My beautiful face). To be introduced using a short story. Activity 1: Huichol (Yarn painting) • rhythm, movement, texture, color, form, implied line Activity 2: Papel Picado (paper cut-outs)•shape, form Activity 3: Las Calaveras (skulls)• pattern, line, color, balance; symmetry Activity 4: Los Esqueletos (the skeletons) • ): movement, symmetry, balance, form (2D & 3D) Activity 5: Ojo de Dios (The Eye of god) • repetition, pattern, texture, color

a) Extended Activity: Dia de los Muertos puzzler b) Extended Activity: Write a dedication to an ancestor. Share their background; important aspects

of their life. c) Extended Activity: Tribute to artist Frida Kahlo: drawing, background, foreground, pattern.

Videos about the artist may be viewed.

RESOURCES: The following resources may be used to enhance knowledge of Dia de los Muertos. 1. Spanish words: https://quizlet.com/7366401/day-of-the-dead-spanish-words-flash-cards/ 2. Short video 3mins (animated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCQnUuq-TEE

3. Yarn painting demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIpaHn8J4NY#action=share 4. Huichol projects: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEV7uYcg1YBz0APFwPxQt.?p=huichol&fr=yhs-elm-001&fr2=piv-web&hspart=elm&hsimp=yhs-001&type=hdr_s_16_41_orgnl#action=view&id=49&vid=701021c1d71d24222e4c4a163dc48a55 Students may transition from one activity to another as each one is completed during the month.

Name:______________________________________________ Grade:_____________ Date:__________________

Able to guide yarn

filling in shape.

Able to guide yarn filling

shape inconsistently or

partially.

Unable to guide yarn or

fill in shape.

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C U L T U R A L C E L E B R A T I O N C F S

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Alter October thirty-first

(Las) Calacas Pan

(Las) Calaveras

Catholic church

Cemetery

Creativity

Cultural celebration

Dance

Dead

(El) Dia de los Muertos

Family

Foods

Hispanic

Huichol (yarn painting)

Music

Tradition