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.
Younger students focus on PE stability/nonlocomotor standard while being exposed to visual vocabulary in their full body interpretation of famous sculptures. They will use basic measuring and grade appropriate mathematic standards to bring the scaled down sculpture
images to life. Higher grades will enjoy the Mindful Minute breaks to look art art, learn about famous artists, stretch, and breath before collaborating on mathematic measuring standards as they make connections to real world applications of math.
