Grade 4's were working on a UOI called Sharing The Planet, so I decided to introduce them to International Street/Mural Art. We looked at artworks from famous street artists such as Banksy, Invader, Seth, Natalia Rak and many others. We discussed why street and public art is important to communities and cultures' representations, and what it means in a growing contemporary art world. The students then voted on 2 murals to emulate and appropriate into community artworks that we would co-create with a local school. Well, that didn't work out as well as we had hoped, but my students did get to meet some great kids from the community that they may never had interacted with but for the mural we all had in common. Surprisingly, both classes chose a street artist named Seth, but 2 different paintings. Here is a few snaps of our process.
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