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The video’s purpose in the beginning is to provide personal, social, and cultural art context. The essential questions and short discussion will be to create the groundwork for the rest of the unit as well as gauging each students’ relationship with their individual perspective on gender.

Gender roles and stereotypes. YouTube. (2018, December 20). https://youtu.be/Ulh0DnFUGsk

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World Health Organization. (n.d.). Gender and health. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender#tab=tab_1

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Title: Ardhanarshivara

Year: Unknown

Artist: Unknown

Medium: Statue

Introduces historical symbol of gender being rooted in history and religion

Gender differing in various cultures.

Gender as a symbol

Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Ardhanarishvara. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ardhanarishvara

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#4: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People

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Title: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People

Year: 2019

Artist: Kent Monkman

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

The two-spirit indigenous people have traditions of gender that don’t fall into the binary.

Our view of gender is Eurocentric and Western

Colonialism and oppression of minority groups

Woodley, B., & Hoke, C. (n.d.). Two spirit. Queer Art History. https://www.queerarthistory.com/tag/two-spirit/

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Title: Untitled #612

Year: 2019

Artist: Cindy Sherman

Medium: Sublimation print

Sherman embodies the concept of “identity.”

Identity being a social performance or “role” we put on.

Kynoch, G. (2021, December 20). Identity, androgyny and masculinity - Cindy Sherman. Hundred Heroines. https://hundredheroines.org/featured/identity-androgyny-and-masculinity-cindy-sherman/

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Title: Laughing While Eating Strawberries

Year: 2015

Artist: Roxana Halls

Medium: Oil on Linen

Women and the role they play in society

Pressures society places on women to act a certain way

Tying gender to norms of behavior

Forbes-Carbines, F. (2021, August 29). The noxious and the nourishing: Roxana Halls on Women, violence and spectatorship. Culturall. https://culturall.io/the-noxious-and-the-nourishing-roxana-halls-on-women-violence-and-spectatorship/

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#7: Becoming an Image Performance Still #1

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Title: Becoming an Image Performance Still #1

Year: 2012

Artist: Heather Cassils

Medium: Photo mounted in Plexiglass

Trans bodies presented and displayed

Ties to greek sculpture

Masculinity and trans identity. Muscles and strength being associated with male gender.

Editor, Cf. (2015, April 2). Clay: Heather Cassils’ becoming an image: CFile - Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design. CFile. https://cfileonline.org/clay-heather-cassils-becoming-image/

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Title: The Air in The Room

Year: 2021

Artist: Heather Evans Smith

Medium: Pigment print

Only daughter in a southern upbringing.

Relationship between mother and daughter in domestic settings.

Blue is a color of representing depression in women and a sense of loss of identity.

General 5. Heather Evans Smith. (n.d.). https://www.heatherevanssmith.com/seen-not-heard

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Title: Off the Charts

Year: 2017

Artist: Devan Shimoyama

Medium: Oil, collage, jewelry, feathers, cloth on canvas

Depicts a queer, black youth

Masking queerness in a culture of masculine heteronormativity

Symbols of flamboyance (jewelry and feathers) are hidden

Barbershops are safe spaces for black masculinity.

Harper, D. S. (2020, July 23). Devan Shimoyama’s dazzling paintings reimagine black masculinity. Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-devan-shimoyamas-dazzling-paintings-reimagine-black-masculinity

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Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity

Macro concepts: identity, groupthink, community
Micro concepts: artistic analysis, medium, visual culture

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Gender museum gallery showcase of student works where students will present a “museum blurb” of the description of their selected artwork (s). Included should also be a personal artist statement about how their view on gender has evolved.

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Students must complete worksheets that keep track of their learning throughout the unit that outlines that unit's essential questions as less fill-in-the blank sections. The worksheet will also include important vocabulary terms and their definitions, artistic elements & design principles, and language functions terms as well as rubrics for lesson assignments/projects.

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Students will break out into learning groups to discuss the artworks/case study examples and answer using the essential questions in the beginning of class as guiding points. These discussions should align with the learning outcomes.

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Familiarizing with gender imagery

Gender plays a big role in Visual Culture

Learning Experience: Students will select images that resonates with their own perceptions of gender.

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Exploring the nature of gender around us

Gender is intertwined in our every day lives and our surroundings.

Learning experience: Students will photograph objects in their house that portray the gender binary.

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Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art and design.

Macro concepts: contemporary art, art history, aesthetic philosophy
Micro concepts: design, composition, medium

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This Unit will be focusing on exploring gender identity in the modern world. Students will be challenged to look inwards as well as outside of themselves to explore the nuances and themes of gender in art by using various artistic mediums. By analyzing various artists’ artworks, students are expected to engage with the complex nature of gender and how humans from all walks of life interact with the concepts of gender expression and performance.

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By the end, students should understand how gender identity is a social construct, and the types of narratives we construct around gender can sometimes oppress and other times empower us.

Key Concepts that students must understand:

Gender is a social construct

Gender is revolved our own and collective sense of identity

Gender can be a tool to empower and oppress

Gender expression is manifested differently in different cultures

Society is structured around gender

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Interacting with the gender of others

Gender experience is different for everyone.

Learning experience: Create a portrait of someone else who identifies as a different gender than you.

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Title: Dream Machine: Dandara

Year: 2019

Artist: Rubem Robierb

Medium: Statue/public installation

Named after a trans woman killed by violence

“The odds are often stacked against us dreamers and only courage and determination, can free us to create, reinvent and express our inner self.” - Robierb

https://vimeo.com/402002212

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Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Macro concepts: Tradition vs. new, creative process, culture
Micro concepts: visual literacy, critical media literacy, documentation

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Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing

Macro concepts: artistic innovation, contemporary art, design/aesthetic philosophy
Micro concepts: formalist approach, style vs, substance, medium

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Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.

Macro concepts: personal narrative, artistic statement, themes
Micro concepts: artistic style, symbolism, exhibition

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Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Macro concepts: social justice, history, media
Micro concepts: media literacy, artistic analysis, symbolism

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Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art- making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.

Macro concepts: context, social messaging, media
Micro concepts: medium, messages, form

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- How does gender impact what we create in the world? (Conceptual)

- How has your gender impacted who you are as an artist? (Conceptual)

- How do you interpret traditional gender roles? Are they important or outdated? (Debatable)

- What is the first image that pops to your mind when you hear the word “gender.” (Conceptual)

- In what ways does art challenge society’s notion of gender? (Conceptual)

- What types of art challenged your own personal beliefs about gender? (Conceptual)

- If you were to change one thing about how society views gender, what would it be? (Debatable)

- What are some examples of everyday images that remind us of gender? (Factual)
- What are some common symbols of gender? (Factual)

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How are traditional gender roles depicted in _________ by  _________?

How does ________ subverts or challenges gender roles.

_______ challenge notions of gender in what ways such as ________?

How can we see through _______ that the experience of gender is different for everyone.

In what ways has this artwork made me realize that gender roles are in place because of _______.