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Art for Public Places.(High School)
About ten years ago, I created a course called Art for Public Places. This was in response to a challenge by a school administrator for "some sort of mural" in our high school. What he had in mind was students working after school a few hours here and there. I had a "larger vision in mind. in designing Art for Public Places, I wanted to create a course that would promote a sense of community among students in the class and ownership in their school environment. Also I wanted students to experience the following: research, cooperative learning, social responsibility, planning, interdisciplinary connections, and a sense of their place in the world, not to mention developing advanced drawing, design, and painting skills.
Course Description
Students in this course are first engaged in studies on famous public art projects in order to learn how public artworks contribute to a sense of national or community identity. One resource that I've found very effective as a teaching tool is the curriculum unit, "Public Sculpture, America's Legacy," produced by the National Museum of American Art.…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Art for Public Places.(High School)
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