In this activity you will be making a cardboard mask that draws inspiration from the African Masks we have seen over the past week. 

Step 1: Watch the video attached to this section <--

Step 2: Make sure you have the following materials to be able to do this:

• cardboard/paperboard from food boxes, shoe boxes, or drink boxes

• glue (white glue or glue stick)

• scissors

• colored pencils

Step 3: Using the video for guidance, begin creating, building, and decorating your mask. Your mask must:

• be human sized or larger

• have a minimum of four 3D elements (eyes, nose, lips, hair, ears, horns, ect)

• contain colored decoration

Step 4: Type up a one paragraph paper (5-7 sentences) in a Google Doc describing your mask using 3 different elements or principles. 

Step 5: Upload an image of your mask and your Google Doc in Google Classroom

For this choice, you will be researching an impressionist or a contemporary artist that find inspiration from Sub-Saharan African art and comparing 3 of their works to that of historical African artwork. We have already learned about a few but I now want you to do your own research and find out more about others. I have provided a list of artist for you to look up OR you can go find your own. You will build a Google Slideshow to present your work. You must have pictures accompanying your information. 

Requirements: 

• Slide 1 - Name of your researched artist & your name

• Slide 2 - A brief summary of the artists background

  • • Where were they born? Year?

    • Where did they go to school? Art school?

    • What makes them a well known or significant artist today (or during their time)

    • What medium(s) do they work with?

    • What inspires their artwork? What themes or ideas do they use in their artwork? (Beyond that of African art forms)

• Slide 3 - Artwork 1 (Have image of artwork)

  • • Make sure you include the name of the artwork, the year it was made/presented, the medium of the artwork, and the size of it

    • Describe the piece of artwork as you see it using the elements and principles of art

    • How does it connect to or be inspired by that of historic Sub-Saharan art?

• Slide 4 - Artwork 2 

  • • Repeat what you did in Slide 3 / Artwork 1

• Slide 5 - Artwork 3

  • • Repeat what you did in Slide 3 / Artwork 1

• Slide 6 - Personal Take of Artist

  • • In this slide you will tell me:

      • •  Why you chose this artist

        • What about the artists work you like the most? The least?

        • What did you find the most inspirational about this artist?

Once you have completed all these slides, you will upload this Google Slides into the Google Classroom assignment section