Lesson Two

Student Parade, Art Exhibition, and Pic-Nic

Project: Students will have a parade through the neighborhood or city, that leads to the exhibition and Fund-Raiser. Students will create costumes to wear, and create instruments. Drums out of paint buckets and cans, and affordable recorders and kazoo's, and if available a student can play the guitar or another horned instrument if they are skilled in band. Students will be encouraged to sing and dance, and bring out the best of the community. Students that can play instruments will be preforming in the parade. There will be a community cook-out or pick-nick at the destination. The destination will be a nearby park or community center where the prints and tee-shirts will be presented. The prints and tee-shrits designed in lesson one will be for sale, and all proceeds will go toward developing the community. Creating Rain barrells for community members to use, and collect run-off water that can be used for gardens and washing/cleaning. Students will also use funds to help the community create self sustaining gardens, and will be handing out plants and seeds that will encourage the community to start thinking about a self sustatined community. Bringing the Arts to the Community to further develop the communiity is what this exhibition/parade/art show is all about. Bringing the Communiy together to connect and ask questions about how to further develop a positive attitude of society as a whole.


Endurng Ideas: Community art provides opportunities for social and economic growth. Community art can address important social issues, and bring opposing forces together in a positive manner to address the needs of the community. Integrate students and art into their community.


Essential Questions: How can making and providing art in the community provide opportunities for self-exploration and develop a dialogue with the community? How can opposing forces in the community come together for the purpose of social, political, and economical gain through the arts?

Activities: Students will create costumes and instruments out of materials provided by the teacher or items they have at home at their disposal. Students will be examining the aspects of sculpture and costumes. The parade will begin and end in the same place, a public area in the community, like a park or arts center. Students will march playing instruments, dance, and sing, to invite the community to the main event at the end of the parade. Flyers and posters will also need to be completed by the class as a group the week before the event. Donations made from community businessess will be passed out along the parade like rain barrells and small plants and seeds. When the parade reaches the destination their will be an art show set up, where people can purchase tee-shirts and prints the students have made in lesson one. Donations will also be accepted. All proceeds will cover the pick-nick costs, and the rest will be made to enhance the community and develop the area. Students will sell their artwork, and will also be wearing their tee-shirts as well, to display the messages they have for the members of their community. After the parade is over and the members of the community have a chance to look at the artwork and purchase what they want, the pick-nick will begin. This will give the students and community members a chance to create a social dialougue and talk about what is needed in the community. Through art students will have created an opportunity to make a change, and make connections within the community and to create a social network. After the event, students will have to write a brief summary of how they feel the event worked, and if they succeeded in creating a social dialogue with the community? Artists and Resources are at the bottom of the blog.

Assessment: How well did the students interact with the community? Did they participate in all aspects of the event? Did they help create all the costumes and artwork displays? Did they take advantage of the opportunity and create a dialogue with the community, and voice concerns with the community. Did they discuss their artwork with the community? Were they creative in the making and designing of their costumes and instruments? Did they follow the priciples and elements of design. Were the costumes and instruments aesthetically pleasing and did they fit well with the direction of the lesson?

Reflection: I feel that this lesson will help create a social network between the members of the community and the students. It will also let the community know what the studnets needs are, and how they fell about the community and neighborhood they live in. The students will be displaying their voice and messages to the community and selling their art to raise funds to create a better environment to live in. Students will become a moving gallery with their tee-shrits on, with all the messages on them. The community can't help but be motivated and touched by the event.