Exploring Your Fears
By: Kelly Mills
Enduring Big Idea: “Fear”
How fear manifests itself in your eyes
How past and current artists visualized/ showed fear in their work
Internal fears
Essential Questions:
What do you fear?
Are there different intensities of those fears?
Are some fears more superficial than others?
Objectives:
The students will…
Explore what they fear
Think critically about how to express their fears and what symbols may best represent them
Investigate artists that use mixed media art: Joseph Cornell and Joseph Giunta in particular
Construct a mixed media artwork of their fears
Lesson Vignette:
Anticipatory Set:
To start off the lesson, students will be asked to create a list of the things they fear. These lists will then be shared with the class, either by white board or overhead. Students will then find objects and physical representations of these fears as homework. While students are brainstorming about the fears they might want to embellish on, I will provide a short powerpoint showing Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes and Joseph Giunta’s mm collages.
Body of Lesson:
Students will create mixed media collages of their fears, using layers to emphasize the depth of the fear (ex. A more superficial fear of arachnids would be on the top layer). Students will ultimately decide the final display of their fears (shadow box, box, collage, etc.) but will have to use at least five different media/objects in their work.
Closure:
Students will have a mock gallery show to display and discuss their work. Grading will be based on craftsmanship, completion, execution, time-spent and overall depth of work.
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