Migration and Movement
Why do people migrate?
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Education
Weather
Violence
Culture
Safety
Affordable living
War
Family & Marriage
• Deported
• For a better
opportunity
• Religious freedom
Jacob Lawrence
• http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_s
eries/flash/experience.html
Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, The migration
gained in momentum, 1940–41
MoMA Learning Migration and Movement
Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, And people
all over the South began to discuss this great
movement, 1940–41
MoMA Learning Migration and Movement
What does home mean to you?
Make a list of words that remind you of your
home (or homes).
These can be nouns, adjectives, and verbs; they
can be tangible objects or abstract ideas.
1. What does home mean to you?
In your sketchbook
Make a list of words that remind you of your
home (or homes).
These can be nouns, adjectives, and verbs; they
can be tangible objects or abstract ideas.
2. Create individual sheets for each word. 1
large white sheet = 4 small sheets.
Make a mini collage book to reflect each word
that represents home.
Zarina, Home Is a Foreign Place,1999
MoMA Learning Migration and Movement
Zarina, Home Is a Foreign Place, Home, 1999
MoMA Learning Migration and Movement
Zarina, Home Is a Foreign Place, Axis, 1999
MoMA Learning Investigating Identity
Zarina, Home Is a Foreign Place, Afternoon, 1999
MoMA Learning Investigating Identity
Zarina, Home Is a Foreign Place, Hot-Breeze ,1999
MoMA Learning Migration and Movement
Examine Panel 1 & 2Write a caption for the
original 1941 date.
Now write a caption
including hashtags # for
a 2016 context.
Now write a caption
including hashtags # for
a 2016 context.
African Americans flock to the city for
better opportunities. #makemoney
#pursuitofhappiness
Manual laborers are in high
demand. #technicalschool
Social Issues
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Affordable housing
Minimum wage
Poverty rate higher among Blacks and Latinos
Police Brutality
Refugees
Racial Disparities in Mass Incarceration
Racial Disparities in Incarceration
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African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million
incarcerated population
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites
Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008,
even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter
of the US population
According to Unlocking America, if African American and Hispanics were
incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison and jail populations would
decline by approximately 50%
One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue,
one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his
lifetime
1 in 100 African American women are in prison
Nationwide, African-Americans represent 26% of juvenile arrests, 44% of youth
who are detained, 46% of the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court,
and 58% of the youth admitted to state prisons (Center on Juvenile and Criminal
Justice).
In your sketchbook, create a caption in
the 2016 context with a hashtag for
these photos.
In your sketchbook, create a caption in
the 2016 context with a hashtag for
these photos.
The Artistic Process (Part 1)
1. Choose an image that represents your
chosen social issue.
2. Determine the positive and negative space.
3. Cut out the shapes.
4. As a result, your photograph will be
abstracted. You will use those shapes to
create a collage.
So far…
Everything you need to know
about acrylic
paint
• Acrylic paint dries fast and that has always
been it's primary advantage.
• Acrylics stick to a wide variety of surfaces.
• Acrylic paints are odorless.
• Acrylics may be thinned with water just like
watercolors.
Basic Techniques with
Acrylic
• Use masking tape directly on the surface you are painting to
create "hard edge." Remove this only after the paint has dried
and don't use too much paint or the tape will be difficult to
remove.
• Use a medium so that when you paint with less medium, your
colors will still have the intensity you desire.
• Underpainting
• Layering
The Artistic
Process
Part 2
• How will paint your collage?
• What abstract techniques will you use?
• What will you do 1st, 2nd, 3rd ?
Techniques
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Use masking tape to create a hard edge.
Underpainting to block out major shapes.
Freehand the shapes to further abstract.
Acrylic
– Use gloss medium
– Dry Brush
– Washing
– Detailing