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Teaching with the Collection

This is a living curriculum section from the field featuring curricula, lesson plans, and resources on Judy Chicago and feminist art for teaching k-12. Log in to add your curricula, lessons, and links to resources.

The Dinner Party at the Regional Multicultural Magnet School: A Service-Learning Project

TheFeministArtProject

FEMINIST ART RESOURCES IN EDUCATION (FARE)
Lesson Plans, Multi Media Resources, Regional Programming and much more…

K-12 READING LIST
Suggestions for young, middle, and high school readers

LINKS & TFAP BLOGS
LInks to organizations, publications and more…

WebQuest examples from Penn State AED322: Visual Culture and Educational Technology that employ Judy Chicago’s Participatory Art Pedagogy:

• Trash Talk (6th grade)
• Un-masking Identity (middle school)
• Miniature Monuments (7th grade)
• Perspective Photography (7th grade)
• Creature Creations (8th grade)
• Sculpting Ideas (9th grade)
• Equality for All (9th grade)
• Sun Salutations (9th grade)
• Video Game Creation Lab (middle & high school)

Using the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection with High School Students in the Classroom:

I choose to center the class discussions and visual focus on Judy Chicago’s Holocaust Project in order to facilitate dialogue among issues relevant to a diverse group of high school students.

•  Art and History, The Holocaust Project http://sites.psu.edu/artlinkstohistory/ (High School)

Nelson College for Girls students celebrate women through art (2015)

Using the Judy Chicago Art Collection in the University Classroom

Possibilities include: Using the on-line website, going through the Chicago archived boxes, engaging in the Dialogue Portal questions, and viewing the videos online can open many directions for discussion. What is Feminist Art? Can men partake within the dialogue? How does this effect our everyday life?

• Leslie Sotomayor used the Special Collections archive and the embedded videos with her class, assigning students to continue researching the Collection and to choose one piece to write a critical analysis/reflection of the feminist art piece, bridging connections from Judy Chicago’s art pieces to the present. Click here for her reflections on the use of the Collection.