Arts-In-Education Exploratory Enrichment

BOCES ARTS-IN-EDUCATION / EXPLORATORY ENRICHMENT
PROGRAM DETAILS



Program Title
Multicultural Mask Making in Clay Africa, Native American,and Contemporary
 
Provider Name
Day in Clay
 
Cliff Mendelson

Tomkins Cove , NY 10986
Phone:
914-715-1915
Email:
cliff@day-in-clay.com
Website:
www.day-in-clay.com
Program Description
Mask Making in Clay - Africa and Native American and Contemporary Using advanced ceramic techniques, students will create a one of a kind large mask with a range of faces/expressions that will relate to some aspect of the student reality today or use the past to say something about an aspect of your life and personal emotions. Masks have been worn from Ancient times to modern day. We will explore the cultural role of the mask. Students will create masks to express a range of emotions as well as creating their own myth and story behind the mask using clay. After the firing, the students can add color/decorations. Using many ceramic techniques, we will create a range of faces/expressions that will relate various aspects of the student reality today or use the past visual history to express something about an aspect of your life or your own personal emotions. Masks have been worn from Ancient times to modern day. Primitive tribes wore masks as part of their ritual, festival, ceremonies and dances. The mask was thought to give supernatural powers to wearers, i.e., Nigerian, Pre-Columbian, Japanese/ Kabuki, Native American. Nature tells a story using the symbols/patterns/imagery-Sun, Earth, snakes, animals. Explore/discuss/create, patterns & designs, to express feelings, exaggerate facial proportions and features intrinsic to their culture, as well as, animal imagery/metaphor. We will explore the cultural role of the mask. a big student favorite.
 
Categories
Visual Arts (VA), Social Studies ,
 


Additional Resources 
There are no evaluations available for this program.

Program Recommendations
Grades
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Professional Development



See Video  
https://vimeo.com/547287307
Arts Standards
1,3,4


Other Standards 
SS



Curriculum Connections 
Arts: Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts , Interdisciplinary , ,



Culturally Responsive 
2,3,4



Cost 
Cost Single: $1700/day
Cost Multiple:


Duration
90 minutes