Then and Now: America Lauren Thompson

Do Now: Compare and Contrast these artworks.

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Salish/Kootenai, French Cree, Shoshone, enrolled member of the Flathead Nation, born 1940 and live at a Reservation in Montana. In addition to Smith’s impressive artworks, she also plays an important role in Native American contemporary arts curation, lecturer, teacher, and activist. Smith has created hundreds of prints and paintings, lectured at over 185 colleges and universities, has had over 90 solo exhibits and curated or organized over 30 Native American exhibitions. BtEJqvhosw BtEJqvhosw

Ancient American Art Mound Building and Cliff Palaces Bowls Burial masks Pipes * Ms. Thompson Notes Expectation: Write down what is underlined.

Mound Building Monk’s Mound, Cahokia, CE Serpent Mound, Ohio, 1070 CE

Cliff Palace Cliff Palace, Colorado, CE

Cliff Palace

Bowls Bowl with two cranes and geometric forms, New Mexico, 1250 CE Effigy head pot, Nodena Site, (Mississippian culture)

Burial Masks Burial Mask Alaska 100 CE

Pipes Pipe Ohio BCE

Contemporary American Artists Jaune Quick-To-See Smith is a Native American artist. She was raised on the Flatrock Reservation in Montana. Her work reflect political issues. Keith Haring was born in Pennsylvania and moved to New York on an art scholarship to the School of Visual Arts. He died at age 31 of AIDS. His work is street art style. Chris Jordan - The Seattle, Washington-based lawyer- turned-artist works with the mundane details of American consumer culture--a plastic cup, a paper bag--and couples them with statistics and scale of excess consumption.

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Juane Quick-To-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), 1992

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, State Names, 2000

Keith Haring Keith Haring, Tuttomondo street art, 2013 Italy

Keith Haring,

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan, Midway: Message for Gyre, 2009

Think Pair Share Discuss connections between ancient and contemporary art.

World Map Brainstorm how America could be illustrated on the world map. Further brainstorm how it could be formatted differently (Fill the America space with an illustration, draw a line out from America and draw an illustration, collage a picture onto map, etc.)

World Map Draw World Map. Illustrate American Art on World Map.

Exit Ticket What were three connections you saw in all American artwork?