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Unit Title: Media, Culture and Gender

Unit Title: Media, Culture and Gender. Key Concepts Artworks have different meaning across time and place (culture and history) Media Literacy Gender roles across time and place Essential Questions What different meanings do artworks have across time and place?

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Unit Title: Media, Culture and Gender

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  1. Unit Title: Media, Culture and Gender Key Concepts Artworks have different meaning across time and place (culture and history) Media Literacy Gender roles across time and place Essential Questions What different meanings do artworks have across time and place? How does the media send us messages and what can we do to change them? How does time and place affect gender roles? How does media change the idea of acceptable gender roles?

  2. Lesson 1: Art in the Real World Understanding different cultures through their art How can you learn about different cultures by looking at their art? Mask (tatanua); Oceania, Melanesi Ceremonial hanging (palepai); Indonesia, southern Sumatra

  3. Lesson 2: Exploring Sepik Culture Understanding different cultures Aesthetic values What kinds of values of other cultures have? How can we learn about other culture’s values through aesthetics? Why is it important to understand different cultures?

  4. Day 1 • Exploring Sepik Culture Learning about Sepik aesthetics and weaving around the world

  5. Day 2 Is weaving an art form? Is it an artifact? Can an object be both? Learning to weave

  6. Days 3-4 Nick Cave Soundsuit, 2009 • Cathy Kata • MbuWalgKupun II Jane Deschner Pooh, Rosalind & Charles, 2007 Complete project and learn how weavings/fibers are relevant in contemporary art Are bilum bags considered art?Can functional objects be considered art?

  7. Day 5 Close: • Gender and weaving in Sepik society? In ours? • What is “men’s work” and “women’s work”? Group Critique

  8. Assessment Weaving Specific Rubric Overall Lesson Rubric

  9. Lesson 3: Media Literacy and Message Evolution Recognizing codes within visual culture messages Understanding that the content of messages can change over time What kinds of messages are prevalent in today’s visual culture? How might the content of those messages change over time? Why is it important to understand how messages might be perceived over time? Culture Jam Video

  10. Lesson 4: Creating Non-Western Visual Culture India Japan Can you know what an advertisement is saying even if you can’t read the words? How has western advertising influenced non-western ads? How are visual images used to create meaning? Create an ad for a non-western culture Individual project with group collaboration

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