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LESSON PLANS

“WHERE DO WE COME FROM? Printmaking around the Globe”

    When designing my second year curriculum, I wanted to bring two things to the kids: a study of art apart from the West and helping the students understand their cultural heritage.  The art making I didn’t think was going to be a problem since nearly every basic art making technique is found on every continent in some way, but connecting it to cultures would be a challenge.  I needed something connecting Marshallese, Hmong, Hispanic, and Anglo.  I began my exploration in the Pacific Islands where I came across kappa stamping. This was a stamp, a form of printmaking! From there I gathered other types of printmaking from each continent or culture, finding connections in technique to develop into a whole idea.  Presented here are those four projects.

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