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Developmental Stages of Drawing (Western perspective). Conversation invites kids to acknowledge and accept current skill level based on exposure experience. “What if we valued learning to draw the way our culture values/pushes learning to read?” - Jill

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Hi Sandy! Could you help add to or resolve the syllabus overview? This would help me tremendously in laying out the scope and sequence for the terms. Especially since I’ll have year 1 and year 2 kids at the same time in one class. I’m concerned how to manage both. - Jill

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Mapping the Course - Curatorial Practice

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Mapping the Course - Curatorial Practice

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Mapping the Course - Art-Making Practice

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Mapping the Course - Art-Making Practice

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Mapping the Course - Theoretical Practice

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Mapping the Course - Theoretical Practice

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Marvin Bartel
https://bartelart.com/

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Beginning of the year

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Kimberly D'Adamo and Julie Marshall
https://www.artasresearch.org/community

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Google Slide One-Doc-for- All SL Students

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Google Slide One-Doc-for- All SL Students

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13OiezhWIVV9Yq8S9v83i2Mj_wbsfdbTOSasNB1iZIhQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Google Slide One-Doc-for-All for HL Students

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Google Slide One-Doc-for-All for HL Students

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNNaxbMKMMC-XiJZ3tI-tsa_2TEdp1UH1FaXzPcKKk8/edit?usp=sharing

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https://art.scholastic.com/

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A provocative essential question “Are humans the only species that create art?” Show funny videos, of David Attenborough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWfyw51DQfU    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkPeN3AWIE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfVV19Z1o5c&t=200s

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www.spoonflower.com

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Art Ted talks

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TOK connection to question: Are humans the only ones who make art? What constitutes artistic copyright?

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Photographer David Slater has won his legal battle over that monkey selfie. A US appeals court ruled Monday that US copyright law doesn't allow animals to file copyright infringement lawsuits.

The decision, made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, upheld a lower-court ruling that previously reached the same conclusion.

Slater and the animal rights group PETA, which sued Slater in 2015 on behalf of the monkey (named Naruto), reached a settlement last year to drop the case (with Slater agreeing to donate 25% of his profits from the photos to charities to protect Naruto). But the court decided to reject the request to have the case dismissed this month, stating that it wanted a legal precedent to be set for similar cases in the future.

That precedent is now established: humans can file copyright lawsuits, not animals.

"While Congress and the president can extend the protection of law to animals as well as humans, there is no indication that they did so in the Copyright Act," U.S. District Judge William Orrick wrote in his original ruling in 2016.

"[T]he Copyright Act does not expressly authorize animals to file copyright infringement suits," the three-judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously confirmed yesterday.

In addition to ruling in Slater's favor, the court slammed PETA for its actions and accused the organization of using Naruto as a pawn while pretending to be a "friend":

[...] PETA appears to have failed to live up to the title of "friend." [...] [I]n the wake of PETA's proposed dismissal, Naruto is left without an advocate, his supposed "friend" having abandoned Naruto's substantive claims in what appears to be an effort to prevent the publication of a decision adverse to PETA's institutional interests. Were he capable of recognizing this abandonment, we wonder whether Naruto might initiate an action for breach of confidential relationship against his (former) next friend, PETA, for its failure to pursue his interests before its own. Puzzlingly, while representing to the world that "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way," PETA seems to employ Naruto as an unwitting pawn in its ideological goals.

PETA has yet to decide if it will appeal the ruling, and its lawyer, Jeff Kerr, : "Naruto should be considered the author and copyright owner, and he shouldn't be treated any differently from any other creator simply because he happens to not be human."
Image credits: Header photos by David Slater

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Photographer David Slater has won his legal battle over that monkey selfie. A US appeals court ruled Monday that US copyright law doesn't allow animals to file copyright infringement lawsuits. The decision, made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, upheld a lower-court ruling that previously reached the same conclusion.

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Today marks HonestlyWTF's four year anniversary. Four years! To celebrate, we're revisiting the very first tutorial we ever featured on the site: shibori tie dye. Lauren and I first discovered shibori after discovering an old photo on the web. The idea of recreating an ancient Japanese dyeing technique inspired us to spend an entire weekend experimenting with our favorite deep blue, indigo. After dyeing just about every white article of clothing in sight, our blue stained fingers excitedly uploaded the tutorial - we couldn't wait to share it with our 30 readers. And so began the ongoing series of tutorials and DIYs. We hope you enjoy the throwback, one of our favorites to date!

You'll need:

an indigo dye kit

natural fiber clothing or fabric

2 5 gallon buckets

rubber gloves

small wood squares

rubber bands

twine

a PVC pipe

a long wooden stick

a drop cloth

rubber gloves

scissors

When choosing fabric or clothing, it's important that made of natural fibers. Cotton, wool, silk or linen work best. I also like to pre-wash my fabric before dyeing. Here I'm using rectangular dinner napkins but obviously, any shape or article of clothing will do! Here are just a few basic binding techniques to try:

Itajime shibori is known as the shape-resist technique. To start, fold the fabric like an accordion.

Fold it again in the other direction - again, like an accordion. Place it between two pieces of wood, or any flat shaped object, and bind it together with string or rubber bands. The shapes and rubber bands will prevent the dye from penetrating the fabric they cover. The larger the shape and the more rubber bands you use, the more white you will see. The smaller the shape and fewer rubber bands you use, the more indigo you will see.

Arashi is the Japanese term for "storm" and it's also known as the pole-wrapping technique. It starts by wrapping fabric around a plastic PVC pipe at a diagonal. Once the fabric is wrapped, tie a piece of twine into a double knot at the base of the pipe.

Wrap the twine around the fabric. After 6-7 wraps around the pipe, scrunch the fabric down. Give the twine a strong tug to tighten. Tightening before scrunching will make it more difficult to control and move the fabric.

Continue wrapping, scrunching and tightening until all the fabric is compacted. Tie a knot above the fabric. The pattern will be on a diagonal with thin lines of white, where the twine is binding the fabric.

Kumo shibori is known as the pleat and bind technique. It involves binding the fabric in very close sections, which results in several spider like designs. This is just one of many ways to experiment with this technique. Start by folding the fabric into an accordion. Pinch and bind into equal sections.

Do the same with the opposite side, in staggered sections. Continue binding with rubber bands, working your way towards the center.

Keep binding until you can't go any further. Add additional rubber bands to make the fabric into a tight bundle.

Be resourceful when binding - use clamps, paper clips, binder clips, odd shaped wooden pieces, canning jar lids, etc. There is no right or wrong way to shibori!

To set up the indigo dye vat, follow the accompanying dye kit instructions. For this particular kit, start by filling a 5 gallon bucket with 4 gallons of warm water. Pour the indigo dye powder into the bucket and stir in a circular motion.

Then pour in the soda ash and reduction agent. Stir again in a circular motion and then in reverse. It is important not to oxidize the dye bath so keeping it covered and stirring it gently is recommended. Once the dyed is well mixed, cover for at least an hour. When you check on the dye, you'll notice a foamy oil-slick looking top layer and a neon yellow-greenish colored liquid below. This is when you know the dye is ready.

Rinse the fabric in another bucket of clean water. Squeeze out all the water before submerging it into the indigo dye bath. Gently manipulate and massage the dye into the fabric. Again, try not to agitate the dye by working gently under the surface of the dye.

After about 5 minutes, take the fabric out of the dye. It will have a green hue but after several minutes, as it is exposed to oxygen, it will turn dark blue. Carefully peek inside one of your pieces and you'll see the areas in which the dye wasn't able to penetrate. Lookin' good!

After all the pieces have been dyed and allowed to oxidize, go ahead and repeat the dying process. The more it goes into the dye bath, the darker the indigo hue the fabric will be. And remember, the fabric will always look darker when wet and will fade a bit when washed for the first time.

After dyeing, allow the pieces to dry and set. I like to leave them overnight before unwrapping the pieces. Put on a fresh pair of gloves, grab a pair of scissors and keep that bucket of clean water nearby. Give the bound pieces a good rinse in water and then carefully snip away the rubber bands and twine. First up is the shape resist technique. See how the fabric is gridded with striped lines from the rubber bands? My wooden squares weren't able to exclude the dye completely and I love it! That is the beauty of shibori - there are no mistakes.

Now for the pole tying technique . . .

And the pleated and bound resist technique . . .

I used binder clips here to bind a square accordion fold.

Here, I simply knotted all four corners of the fabric individually.

And then there is the good ol' binding method we all did in grade school.

Once all the pieces have been unwrapped, wash them in the washing machine with cold water without detergent. Line dry, or dry on the lowest heat setting in a dryer, and iron to set the color.

The dye vat should allow you to dye at least 5 pounds of fabric. If you keep it covered after each use, it should last up to 5 days. Have fun!
(images by HonestlyWTF)

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This doc is how I begin my Intro to Photo class, so it is very elementary, but if you are introducing a lens-based project for the first time, these can be great things to make sure the students slow down and make intentional choices rather than use snapshots.

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List of words, choose 5, research the meaning, what's your relation with the word? Use the JUNK DRAWER items and ink to create the words.

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If you are needing lens-based help - darkroom guidance, or ideas for low tech etc...  Send me an email.
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tara.neff@icloud.com

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Professional Development for Art Teachers

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I use this rubric to have the students report evidence of each of the descriptors. I'll have them evaluate their journal perhaps 3 times per semester. I'll use this as part of there school-assigned grade, so yes, the visual journal is graded!- Jill

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