Dirty Collective Screen Printers

link to clip

Beauty and Conformity

Courtney Weakley, who is currently in Gr 12 created a wonderful film and blog for her Gr11 Art Project.

Her theme was beauty and conformity.

link to Courtney Weakley's blog

link to Courtney Weakley's film

How we see ourselves

link to Dove Real Beauty Sketches clip

Grade 11: Art and Spirituality revision

"Noah's Ark", 1969 - etching 15/70 - 17x25.5 cm

http://www.pelmama.org/MBATHA_AMBA6901.htm

Link to Revision PPT on Makhanya

Mbatha PPT Link

Insideout Grade 11 and 12 Visual Peotry

http://www.wandco.com/projects/architecture/CMM.php


Link to Mrs Moore's poem

link to reveal conceal 2009 art theme [also on art general]

Search the net, blog and art general for some artists who will inspire you such as

•  Cheryl Penn's artist's books ( http://cherylpennartistsbooks.com/), 
• Lesley Magwood Fraser
• the Grade 9 Beauty is Historical powerpoint on images from the book Altered Art (also in our art library)
• the following people's talks are downloaded on art general and links are on the blog (some are on dghslife.blogspot.com
• JR
• Chris Jordan
• Cameron Russel's talk on being a model
• Shane Koyczan
• Becky on being homeless
• Jane's story on being homeless 

Grade 8: Wallet design

link flickr wallets

http://www.service-1.org/trade-insights/1475,8-most-creative-wallet-you-want-to-buy.html

link to PPT on the wallet template and pattern

Could beauty and art change political environments?

image from: http://tyandor.com/its-beautiful-its-safe/

Edi Rama was the Mayor of  Tirana, in Albania from 2000 to 2011. He transformed his city using colour.  Blogger Tyler Tyndor states that Rama's story draws attention to an under-recognized force for social change: the power of art and design.

Click on the link below to hear more....

link to Ted Talk http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2012X/None/EdiRama_2012X.mp4

Chris Jordan: intrepreting data using art

"Photographer Chris Jordan’s images take a wide open look at American culture and more specifically the current culture of consumerism. His most current series, Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait makes an impact just by being able to visualize the data when the numbers are so staggeringly huge. "://blog.extensis.com/creative-fuel/chris-jordans-photos-and-statistical-representation.php

images below from:

http://www.dtdf.de/_site/seiten/merck/entscheidung2008.php

 

Link to Chris Jordan's TED talk