1. Cornerstone 3 Transforming Environment
Students will explore the concept that art can transform space and investigate and the environment around them. This work will challenge assumptions that space is a fixed concept and present the idea of space as a construct. Students are encouraged to utilize creative technology such as digital photography and videography to document and explore the world around them.

2. Transforming Environment Project: Exemplar Artwork
For the City, October 6-9, 2005, Jenny Holzer, b. 1950, American, digital projection on side of the New York Public Library
What is the artist trying to communicate in this image?
What visual strategies have been employed in order to transform an environment?

3. Exemplar Image 2
Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, 2005, Cai Guo-Qiang, b. 1957, Chinese, Dancing Boats: nine boats and 30mm cake fireworks; Tornado: in pixelburst shells, duration: 7min. Commissioned by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
How does this work relate to its location? How is it ‘site-specific’?

4. Exemplar Image 3
The Great White Way 22 miles, 5 years, 1 street, 2002 William Pope L, b. 1955, American, site specific performance lasting 5 years, Brooklyn, NY
Consider the role of performance and appropriated imagery (Superman) in this work. Discuss the efficacy of these artistic strategies in transforming this environment.

5. Exemplar Image 4
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation’s Millenium General Assembly, ca , James Hampton, b , gold and silver aluminum foil, Kraft paper, and plastic over wood furniture, paperboard, and glass, 180 pieces in overall configuration: 10 1/2 x 27 x 14 1/2 ft.Smithsonian American Art MuseumGift of anonymous donors
This work was discovered installed in the artist’s garage. Discuss this artist’s visual strategies for transforming the garage environment

6. Exemplar Image 5
Ghost, 1990, Rachel Whiteread, b. 1963, English, plaster on steel frame 269 x x cm x 140 x 125", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
In discussion, compare and contrast object making versus performance as strategies for transforming environment