Family Traditions

Family Traditions foi um intercâmbio entre escolas do primeiro ciclo  coordenado pela APECV e criado pela professora  Carol Goff de R. D. Seymour School (East Granby, CT 06026 USA) . O projeto for realizado em 2010-2011, Participaram cerca de 200 crianças de Estados Unidos, Malasia; Colombia e Portugal. Os trabalhos foram expostos  na Seymour School e durante o Encontro da APECV , em 2011, no Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 

Escolas Participantes: R.D. Seymour School , East Granby, Connecticut USA; Taller Expresario , Bogotá, Colombia; Escola Jasmim , Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal; Associação de Professores de Artes Visuais da Malasia e Escola Primária de Bilkent, Ankara, Turquia.

Cada professor escolheu o ponto de partida para os alunos, por exemplo Carol trabalhou com obras de Norman Rockell ( USA); Fernanda com obras de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso ( Portugal) ; na escola da Turquia o ponto de partida foi uma visita aos museu etnográfico para verem trajes de casamentos;  na Malásia e na Colombia as professoras partiram de imagens da cultura visual local.  

Ver aqui as Imagens do Projeto

 

 

O Plano  da Carol: 

I initiated the art exchange project, Family Traditions, with the goal of increasing students’ awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the similarities and differences of other children’s lives, through the sharing of narrative works of art illustrating family traditions celebrated around the world.  This authentic learning experience provided students’ with an opportunity to truly understand the communicative power of art.  Art educators from Portugal, Colombia,   and Malaysia participated in this project with me, collaborating together on projects that will allow students to learn about each other through their art.  

Objective: The goal of this art exchange project is to increase students’ awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the similarities and differences of other children’s lives, through the sharing of family traditions celebrated around the world.

 

I. Introduction to Artist:

  • Introduce/observe/discuss selected narrative works of Norman Rockwell. (example: Little Girl with a Shiner, The Dug-Out, The Four Freedoms –particularly Freedom from Want)

  • Introduce/discuss biography of Norman Rockwell and his sources of inspiration. Discuss Rockwell’s statement:  “I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed."

 

II. Introduction to Family Traditions Art Exchange Lesson: Using the print: “Freedom from Want” by Rockwell (shows our tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving Day) as an introduction, discuss what “TRADITION” means.

  1. Brainstorm: each student will brainstorm an individual list of family traditions and share with the class. Discuss the class’s shared traditions (holidays) as well as each student’s special, unique family traditions. Students will also discuss other traditions their families have created, that are not necessarily related to holidays –but unique to their own family life. Within each tradition, children should think about the people involved, the time of year, the setting, the type of food, activities involved, etc.

  2. Students select one of their family traditions to illustrate. The students’ art work will communicate to others about our culture and family life. (i.e. “what life is like here in East Granby, CT USA.”)

Materials:Two-dimensional work can be done in any media (teacher and/or student selected).Mailing the actual artwork will need to be considered when determining the size of each student’s art work.If some of your children prefer to create a piece that is 3D, digital photos of the work can be exchanged.

 

In art classes, before creating their initial drawings for the project, fourth grade students from East Granby, CT learned about American artist, Norman Rockwell, and observed and discussed one of his Four Freedoms Paintings, “Freedom from Want”. This discussion led to an independent brainstorming activity where students developed lists of both shared traditions (holidays), as well as special and unique family traditions that occur throughout their everyday lives. Once they selected one idea to illustrate, the children were reminded to think about the people involved, the time of year, the setting, and the type of food and activities involved. The students had a choice of media to select from when creating their piece for the art exchange, being limited only to the size of the 2D illustration due to the anticipated costs of the future mailing of the group’s works for the traveling exhibit. Creating 3D work for the art exchange was also an option, as digital pictures of the student work could be emailed. Students from the other countries participating also studied the narrative work of a local artist selected by their teachers. When the project is complete and all work from each country has been received, I plan to organize the student work into both an online exhibit as well as a traveling art exhibit to each of the participating countries.

Another special component of this project is the dynamic synergy created through the collaboration with other art educators around the world. I have truly enjoyed exchanging ideas between all of the teachers involved in this art exchange project and plan to incorporate some of these new ideas into future lessons. My students are excited to view the work received from each of the three other countries when they return to school this September. It was delightful to see the children thoughtfully developing their narrative art works in order to clearly convey the story behind their selected Family Tradition.

Our goal was to complete the art exchange project by the end of May 2010, however, time restraints impacted this goal for some of the teachers, so I anticipate receiving the rest of the student work by the end of this summer, with the first exhibit of Family Traditions occurring in East Granby, CT, USA in the Fall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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