'Witness Wall' of Story Quilt: Clay Tiles or Mixed Media Artworks

Content Standards:
1.4 Apply successfully the qualities and characteristics of a chosen medium (e.g., make informed selection of materials based on anticipated physical/aesthetic qualities).
2.3 Use the various sensory and expressive qualities in art to evoke ideas and emotions (e.g., create an artwork that portrays a specific mood or feeling).
3.3 Choose and execute ideas in a work of art (e.g., use ideas such as personal story, social issues/injustices, civil rights issues-- in a work of art).
5.3 Reflect on the discussion of one’s art and the art of others in class critiques.
State Performance Indicators:
1.1.3 Select appropriate media, techniques, and processes to create intended meaning and desired effect in a work of art.
2.3.3 Apply various sensory and expressive qualities in a work of art.
3.1.3 Apply subjects, themes, and symbols in works of art in an effective manner. 
5.3.2 Analyze similarities among and differences between one’s artwork and the artwork of others. (compare/contrast reflection).

Clear Learning Targets:

• I can use various information: digital text & powerpoint presentation, to learn about artists Walter Hood (Nashville Witness Walls installation) and Faith Ringgold (story quilts that reveal ideas, themes & symbolism of her life and that of the Civil Rights Movement).
• I can generate answers to the questions: “What social and civil injustices still exist today?” and select one on which to focus my art project.
• I can create a story quilt *clay tile or *mixed media artwork in the style of Faith Ringgold that depicts my chosen current social or civil injustice that is in need of resolution still today.
• I can use expressive qualities to create mood through the elements and principles of art in my project.
• I can reflect upon my art by comparing and contrasting, using a triple Venn diagram, the works of Walter Hood and Faith Ringgold.
• I can be a part of a class “Witness Wall” in the spirit of Walter Hood, where all of the clay tiles or mixed media works are displayed together as one big art installation.

Task Objectives (steps to reach mastery of clear learning targets):

• Brief introduction of Walter Hood, Faith Ringgold (powerpoint)
• Have students read text about Walter Hood on Metro Arts website.
• Have students research Faith Ringgold and her story quilts by use of iPads, computers, personal 
• devices or handouts below. Digital is best since students can see several examples of the quilts.
• Take note of themes, subjects, symbolism in F.R. works.
• Brainstorm list of social and civil injustices that are still unresolved today. Can be school wide, community, worldwide, etc. Can do individually- then as a class.
• Students take the social/civil injustice and form it into a question as a title for their artwork: e.g.
• “What’s really behind school shootings?”, “Racism: Aren’t we really all the same on the inside?”
• This will require some modeling and scaffolding by the teacher.
• Begin synthesizing ideas into thumbnail sketches in sketchbook for art project.
• Begin work in clay or mixed media supplies.
• Reflection by compare/contrast Venn Diagram.
• Display all works together as a class “Witness Wall”.
• Reflect on the similarities and differences of this Wall and that of Walter Hood’s Witness Walls