Family Traditions
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• East Seymour Primary School / East Seymour, CT, USA • Taller Expresario , Bogotá, Colombia • Jasmim School , Gaia, Portugal • Malasya • Bilkent Primary School, Ankara, TURKEY
I initiated the art exchange project, Family Traditions, with the goal of increasing students’ awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the similarities and differences of other children’s lives, through the sharing of narrative works of art illustrating family traditions celebrated around the world. This authentic learning experience provided students’ with an opportunity to truly understand the communicative power of art. Art educators from Portugal, Colombia, and Malaysia participated in this project with me, collaborating together on projects that will allow students to learn about each other through their art. CAROL GOFF, K-5 ART TEACHER R. D. SEYMOUR SCHOOL EAST GRANBY, CT 06026 USA
Malasya
Colombia
R. D. Seymour School East Granby, CT 06026 USA
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CAROL GOFF, K-5 ART TEACHER R. D. SEYMOUR SCHOOL EAST GRANBY, CT 06026 USA
In art classes, before creating their initial drawings for the project, fourth grade students from East Granby, CT learned about American artist, Norman Rockwell, and observed and discussed one of his Four Freedoms Paintings, “Freedom from Want”. This discussion led to an independent brainstorming activity where students developed lists of both shared traditions (holidays), as well as special and unique family traditions that occur throughout their everyday lives. Once they selected one idea to illustrate, the children were reminded to think about the people involved, the time of year, the setting, and the type of food and activities involved. The students had a choice of media to select from when creating their piece for the art exchange, being limited only to the size of the 2D illustration due to the anticipated costs of the future mailing of the group’s works for the traveling exhibit. Creating 3D work for the art exchange was also an option, as digital pictures of the student work could be emailed.
Students from the other countries participating also studied the narrative work of a local artist selected by their teachers. When the project is complete and all work from each country has been received, I plan to organize the student work into both an online exhibit as well as a traveling art exhibit to each of the participating countries
Another special component of this project is the dynamic synergy created through the collaboration with other art educators around the world. I have truly enjoyed exchanging ideas between all of the teachers involved in this art exchange project and plan to incorporate some of these new ideas into future lessons.
My students are excited to view the work received from each of the three other countries when they return to school this September. It was delightful to see the children thoughtfully developing their narrative art works in order to clearly convey the story behind their selected Family Tradition.
Our goal was to complete the art exchange project by the end of May 2010, however, time restraints impacted this goal for some of the teachers, so I anticipate receiving the rest of the student work by the end of this summer, with the first exhibit of Family Traditions occurring in East Granby, CT, USA in the Fall.
Exhibition East SeymourApril/May 2011
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International Art Exchange
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Escola Jasmim
Valadares. Vila Nova de Gaia. Oporto
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I Curricula Contents
.Localization of Portugal in the World Map and in Europe Continent .Portugal and his Districts, administrative distribution and characteristics
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Each student work about one District, its Characteristics and Traditions.
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Easter time meanwhile
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Searching, Observation and Collecting Operation
I Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Portuguese Artist I
Painting by the “pochoir” manner of the artist
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Escola Jasmim, our school
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The school’s front The pleasant school’s entrance Our big playground with a lot of space, trees, plants and bugs to discover and play with…
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Escola Jasmim, our school
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The nice and large school’s hall for multiuses
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Escola Jasmim, our school
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More playground where all children love to play…
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3rd Level Curricula
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Contents
.Portugal and its Districts, administrative regions and characteristics
.Localization of Portugal in the World Map and in the European Continent
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“Family Traditions” Art Project Activity: Each student work about one District, its Characteristics and Traditions
“Family Traditions” Art Project Activity:
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Each student work about one District, its Characteristics and Traditions.
And here it is: The whole country: PORTUGAL itself painted as a puzzle in a canvas. It´s beautiful, isn´t it ?
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In Portugal there many Family Traditions: some are similar to other western countries, they happen in the same time and may have similar forms… But…there are, always, differences… Let’s see some, with the help of the arts!
“Easter Family Traditions”
Searching, Observation and Collecting Operation
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Flowers of Easter
“Folar” cake and Sweet Rice – some of the most delicious things of Easter
Sweet Rice
Mother duck hatching the eggs.
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Searching, Observation and Collecting Operation
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FOLAR, the traditional easter cake with differents recipes and shapes according to the differents manners and cultures among the several districts of Portugal.
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Searching, Observation and Collecting Operation
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The almonds dry fruit very typical all over the country but mainly at very north and very south
…and the sweet almonds are similar in shape. These are used all over the country.
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Easter Sugar’s Almonds and coloured eggs for the children and all the family
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Compasso, the traditional procession after the religious Aleluia Ceremony at the church.
The Palm tree leaves for the religious feast
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Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Portuguese Artist
He lived between 1887 an 1918 at the north of Portugal. His early works were stylistically close to naturalism and impressionism. Around 1910, influenced both by Cubism and by Futurism, he became one of the first modern Portuguese painters. His style is aggressive and vivid both in form and colour and the compositional structure of his works may seem random or chaotic at first sight but are clearly defined and balanced. His more innovative paintings look like collages, and seem to pave the way to Abstractionism or even Dadaism.
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Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Portuguese Artist
Some paintings by Amadeo were inspired in forms and colours of Portuguese folk arts
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Esboços e Desenhos/ Explorando os materiais e seus efeitos Sketches and Projects/ Exploring the materials and their effects…
Ovos/ Eggs
Folar da Páscoa / Easter Cake Flores/Flowers
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Artwork created with Oil and Soft Pastels
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Exploring the materials and their effects
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From the forms created everybody constructed stencils forms
The EGGS, ALMONDS or FOLAR forms
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From the forms created everybody constructed stencils forms
Easter FLOWERS forms
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From the forms created everybody constructed stencils forms
some FOLAR cakes forms
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From the forms created everybody constructed stencils forms
FOLAR cake form FLOWER form
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Easter symbols
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The inspiration of the symbols to create…
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Week after week the work goes on…
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The coulours are lively and bright. It’s important not to forget the aim of the project as well as the Amadeo style.
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The final artwork 1: a painting in canvas
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That was a great experience! It was a lot of fun!!! We learn and practice some interesting things:
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about our country, our traditions
.More characteristics of each district .Family traditions, our and the others .Easter Symbols and Signs .Easter Forms and Colours .About our big artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso .The “pochoir” technics And, after all, we know better each other… THANKS EVERYBODY who participate in this project!
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This Art Work was created by the 3rd level class of P O R TUG AL . education trough art JASMIM SCHOOL at Valadares, Gaia, PORTUGAL
Pupils: Ana Filipa Amorim Ana Nadais António Moniz Beatriz Figueiredo Bruno Cirne Carlos Francisco Anjos Dinis Silveira Diogo Sousa Inês Castro Francisco Batista Francisco Gomes Leonardo Brito Luís Melo Marta Abreu Martim Prata Sofia Magalhães RegularTeacher: Rita Esteves Art Teachers: Manuela Prata and Fernanda Santos
REFLECTIONS ON THE ART EXCHANGE PROJECT: FAMILY TRADITIONS
TERESA TORRES DE EÇA VISUAL ART TEACHERS ASSSOCIATION APECV JUNE 2011
When Carol invited me to join her in the project I look for teachers accepting to collaborate in a multicultural project through visual arts. The first idea was to share a common theme for a visual art lesson as a starting point to facilitate students’ learning engaging transdisciplinar approaches. One year later I realised that we accomplished our objectives. Through visual story telling children were able to become aware of their own cultural identity in order to tell the 'others' from another country about what the sense of communnity , what makes them unique to the other children. Visual Arts education is powerful tool to work in Peace Education, projects like this one show such possibilities.
TERESA TORRES DE EÇA, APECV, 6- June 2011
Exhibition , BragançaPortugal , May 2011
Bilkent Primary School Bilkent University, East Campus Ankara, TURKEY
Turkey's Topic: Traditional Wedding Rituals Aims of the Project: To promote international-mindedness in art classes To help students be open minded and sensitive about other cultures thorugh art To encourage students appreciate works of art from different countries
“Traditional Wedding Rituals”
Famiy Traditions IDF Bilkent Primary School “CREATIVE ATELIER CLUB” Grade1&4 students and Grade 6 and 8 students are going to work on the topic “Traditional Wedding Rituals” Project Coordinators: Burcu Diker (Visual Arts Teacher) Şükran Şahin (Visual Arts Teacher) Özlem Baytan (Visual Arts Teacher) Erol Saçak (Design and Technology Teacher) Özge Toplu (Design and Technology Teacher) Nil Çelik (Visual Arts Teacher)
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ACTIVITY-1 Aim: The comparision of the past culture with today’s culture by our students, role playing, re-interpretation, based on the observation-analysis techniques, to provide permanent learning in the museum by the help of applications. Activity 1/ “Acting Out the Traditional Wedding Rituals” Participants in the Program: 35 Grade 1 and 4 students in the Creative Atelier Club Time: 40 ‘ Before visiting the Museum; 120’ The duration of the visit to the museum; 120 ’ After the Museum visit
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Application Process: Before visiting the Museum: Before the visit to the museum; showing photo, giving information, giving research paper homework, sending a letter informing parents. Making an appointment, planning a visit to the museum (how many hours to stay/how long to stay, meals, round-trip, transportation) Getting general information from a museum educator about the museum during the visit to the museum
Visit to the Museum The Ethnography Museum of Ankara was built as the first museum structure of Ankara and Turkish Republic in 1925. In the museum the three-dimensional images which reflect Turkish traditional lives is located in the showcases which has ethnographic objects. Students walk through the museum in general. The part on henna night and wedding showcases is examined in detail. Although there are some changes in wedding rituals in Turkish Culture in different regions, all of them are performed in the standard patterns. In our planned visit, in accordance with the project topic our students performed “Henna Night”, which is a part of our traditional weddings, at the museum. The students wearing appropriate clothing to the event performed the dances, folk songs, the tradition of applying henna, food, groom shaving, the tradition of throwing money, and the other moments.
Road to the Marriage in Turkey: Kına Gecesi –Henna Night
Henna is a kind of coloring powder obtained from the tree of Henna. Henna Night, is a traditional ceremony symbolizing the last night of a bride in her father’s home. It is a ritual of tattooing the hands and feet of the bride with henna in a ceremony that usually the girls and women are invited… In the Henna night, the bride and the ladies, wearing traditonal dresses, dance with folkloric or oriental music and songs. (www.istanbul-pedia.com)
Please have a look at the photos of our students acting out the henna night for you and then send your questions and comments to us through the forum. Have you found similarities between your culture and ours? Have you found anything interesting?
Hatice ILDIROYUK, the educational specialist of the Ethnography Museum Management Department, gave information about the Ethnography Museum and wedding rituals. Then, during the creative drama activity carried out under the leadership of Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences lecturer Dr. Ayşe OKYUVARAN, our students spent enjoyable time by living the traditional henna nights. At the same time, our students had a journey to the past in this museum in which the examples of Turkish art from Seljuk to the present are exhibited, and also in which there are showcases belong to our customs and traditions.
Have you ever seen traditional Turkish wedding gown or head dress like this before? Please write your comments to us through the forum
More Information at http://obi.moodle.bilkent.edu.tr/2010-2011/course/view.php?id=43 1. Please, first go to www.obi.bilkent.edu.tr 2. Choose English Version 3. Click 'Primary' 4. Click 'Obi Moodle' under the 'Quick links' (on the left) 5. Click 'project' 6.Click 'family traditions' 7.Type your username 'tempstudent' 8.Type your password 'project' 9. Click 'Giriş/login'