Students will become living sculptures as they challenge their bodies to interpret the geometry, angles, and balance of a dozen famous sculptures. They will be challenged to maintain stillness and stability in their interpretive poses for 60 seconds at a time. They will shape their bodies to mimic characteristics of the artwork"s lines, forms and structure. They will hold their interpretive poses for an entire
minute bringing awareness into their breath, their body, and the passing of time. They will be challenged to continue to hold the pose while learning contextual information about the artist/sculpture including the time and place it was created and the media used. Then students will discuss the work of art by describing how their bodies felt being in the interpretive pose and use visual art vocabulary as
they begin to read into the sculpture"s possible mood, meaning, and ideas. After this reflection, students will re-construct an interpretive pose that encompasses an insight or fluent read of the artwork. These poses can be named and used as classroom directional for stretch breaks, transition times, line ups, etc. During the second half of the visit, students will collaboratively analyze, investigate,
compute scale and then measure and represent with their bodies to visualize real world size, perimeters, angles, and area as applicable to grade appropriate learning standards. This program encourages students to slow down, to interpret/process their visual world, and to
look/learn with their whole body as they connect mathematics to real world applications.
Students will understand that artwork conveys a story that can be read be interpreting the form, structure, media, and contextual information; reading a work of art becomes more accessible when looking with their whole whole body. Students will have exposure to several different sculptures from different cultures from differnt time periods inclusive of female and African American artists. Students will solve word problems based on new and interesting visual data(sculptures); data collection, measuring and problem solving, calculate actual size, area, perimeter, angles of the work of art will bring work to life. Students will work independently and collaboratively to interpret and analyze the works of art.
Math Standards change across age groups and so with the measuring and computing that each grade does.
