Social Issue Collage and 3-D

Figure Study

Objective: To effectively express a

personal viewpoint of a social issue
through a variety of art mediums.
 Requirements:
• Explore the website: Art and Social Issues in
American Culture
• Choose a social issue of personal significance
• Gather imagery, statistics, poems, quotes, etc…
regarding issue.
• Create a collage/environment involving several
demonstrated techniques
• Create a 3-D clay figure symbolically representing
the issue.
• Combine collage and figure to create a clear and
powerful statement regarding social statement.
• Write an artist statement explaining the process and
product.
 Examples of
Social Activist Artists
 Kathe Kollwitz
“Kollwitz felt that her social
responsibility was to be an artist and
an advocate against human suffering
in the world.”
Ben Shahn
Guerrilla Girls
 Jenny Holzer
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/holzer/#
Thomas Hart Benton
Dadaism
Examples in Advertising
Student Examples
 Requirements:
• Explore the website: Art and Social Issues in American
Culture
• Choose a social issue of personal significance
• Gather imagery, statistics, poems, quotes, etc… regarding
issue.
• Create a collage/environment involving several
demonstrated techniques
• Create a 3-D clay figure symbolically representing the issue.
• Combine collage and figure to create a clear and powerful
statement regarding social statement.
• Write an artist statement explaining the process and product.