1. Chairs and Day of the Dead Juniors and Seniors

2. Requirements Seniors Students will use a chair as a symbol and frame and represent their overall concept or theme of their portfolio on the chair. Juniors or One Year Students will be able to complete the IB art process through the creation of a research supported piece on the theme of the Day of the Dead. This is the project assigned that has a selected theme.

3. Day of the Dead Students will do research on the following: 1.Meaning of the holiday 2.Where and when this holiday is mainly celebrated 3.What are the three main symbols of this holiday? 4.How could this holiday be celebrated in your own life? 5.How have other cultures changed the meaning of this holiday? 6.Pick 2-3 artists who focus solely on this holiday as inspiration for their work. Write about their work and explain how it has helped inspired your work. 7.Begin some compositions. 8.You are not limited to HOW you create this piece.

4. Day of the Dead Deadlines: Sept 29-30 Must have finished piece. Variety of compositions (IWB) Medium experimentation (IWB) Research (IWB) Reflection (IWB)

5. Art Exists in the Artist’s Ideas Rather than in the Object Itself. Chairs

6. Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs: 1965 His work discussed the idea that as artists we produce objects…but instead we throw out the objects identity and focus on the pure idea. His image shows the three sides: reality, image and concept.

7. Chairs and looking Beyond Emotional content is associated with objects. I want you to think about how you can relate your current concept/theme with a chair. Transformation involves the following: Scale change (size) Covering them with some crazy jaterial with destroys their usefulness but preserves the object themselves. Movement (kinetic sculptures) Portrait/caricature of object Deformation while making use of object impossible Simply a new title providing clarity Robert Rauschenberg, 1960

8. Chair Requirements There are none. Except you have to start with a chair…somehow. What you do with that chair is up to you. Deadline: Sept. 29-30