Artistic Awareness Theme: Awareness Grade Level: Art I

Questioning Strategies Leading Response Question: –What do you see in this image? Information Processing Questions: –How are the forms arranged? –Is this composition simple or complex? Why? –Can you locate elements of art or principles of design? Where are they? Productive Questions: –What could this image be about? –Why do you think the image is about that? –How does this image make you feel?

Chris Jordan Chris Jordan (born 1963) is an artist based in Seattle, Washington who is best known for his large scale works depicting mass consumption and waste, particularly garbage. He has been called "the 'it' artist of the green movement". Jordan grew up in Connecticut, where his father was a businessman and a photographer on the side, and Jordan later said that he was "filled with regret" that he could not practice his hobby photography full-time. Jordan was going to attend UC Santa Barbara, where he was going to study music, but instead transferred to the University of Texas at Austin to be with his wife, who was in graduate school there. He then attended law school "for all the wrong reasons," including a wrongful arrest at a young age, and then worked as a corporate lawyer. In the meantime, he spent all his free time and money on photography. He moved to Seattle because of its reputation as an interesting city that was near climbable mountains. After ten years of practicing law, Jordan resigned from the bar, removing his safety net, in order to become a full-time photographer. Early successes, including major shows in New York and Los Angeles, propelled his career.

Energy Conservation Light Bulbs, x96" Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).

Animal Adoption Dog and Cat Collars, x67" Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day.

Quit Smoking Skull With Cigarette, x72" Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months. Based on a painting by Van Gogh.

Keith Haring Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4, His father, an amateur cartoonist, sparked his son's early interest in art. After high school, Haring enrolled in the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, but soon grew dissatisfied with the commercialism of his illustration and graphic design coursework. He withdrew from school and hitchhiked across the United States. He returned to Pittsburgh in 1976 where he became involved with the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center and hosted his first art show at age 19.

Disease Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, its mandate being to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children’s programs, and to expand the audience for Haring’s work through exhibitions, publications and the licensing of his images. Haring enlisted his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his own illness and generate activism and awareness about AIDS.

Drug Use Crack is Wack Playground earned its distinctive name after artist Keith Haring ( ) painted the now-famous Crack Is Wack mural in 1986 on the handball court walls. The mural, done in Haring's signature style of thick black outlines, bright colors and intermingling, cartoon-like bodies, was painted to send a serious anti-drug message to the community.

Assignment: Students are to choose an: Awareness/issue Medium Element and Principle to create an artwork that will bring awareness to others.

Objectives As a result of this lesson, the student will be able to: Define awareness, principles of design, and elements of art by completing an assessment sheet. Describe the topic of awareness and list artists that have used their work to create awareness by completing an assessment sheet. Sketch their ideas out in order to “work out the bugs.” Research their chosen topic of awareness and document it in their sketchbooks. Design and create an artwork using materials of their choice. Critique each others work in a formal and learning- oriented group critique.