Mixed Media Collage- Cultural & Historical Influences

5th grade made these collages while investigating how artists have worked differently throughout time, and how social media and technology influences art movements. For example, the printing press lead to the invention of the news paper magazine, which artists saw as a new art making material. They began cutting out pointed images and words, and incorporated them in their drawings and paintings. Now, we're living in the digital age. How has modern technology, like computers, changed the ways artists create?

Creating mixed media or digital media, with the investigation of why and how artists create it exercises the following 2020 Colorado State Academic Standards of Visual Arts:

Kindergarten, Standard 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Notice and discuss what can be seen in works of visual art and design. Evidence Outcome: a. Recognize that explorative play with materials can inspire ideas for visual art and design.

First Grade, Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Investigate the properties of materials to support the planning and making of works of art to communicate. Evidence Outcome: a. Choose art media to express ideas and feelings.

Second Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Observe and discuss how visual art and design are evident in the everyday life of communities. Evidence Outcome: a. Recognize how visual art and design is interdisciplinary.

Third Grade, Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Investigate works of art and design to recognize how to create meaning with purpose and intent. Evidence Outcome: a. Identify historical and cultural ideas evident in works of visual art and design.

Third Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Recognize how works of visual art and design communicate meaning both within a community and between diverse cultures. Evidence Outcomes: a. Investigate how visual art and design can make connections between subjects, disciplines or events. b. Connect the meaning of personal works of art to historical, cultural or community events.

Fourth Grade, Standard 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect, Grade Level Expectation: 2. Synthesize researched and visual information to imagine, inform and plan possible next steps in personal artmaking. Evidence Outcome: b. Investigate the ways alternative ideas are generated.

Fourth Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Investigate and discuss how diverse communities address issues relevant to their culture, place and times. Evidence Outcomes: a. Identify and describe how visual art and design communicate meaning between any subject, discipline, event or issue. c. Compare how artists work in different cultures and at different times in history.

Fifth Grade, Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend, Grade Level Expectation: 2. Demonstrate an understanding of how works of visual art and design are influenced by the culture of daily life. Evidence Outcome: b. Investigate and discuss how popular culture influences visual art and design.

Fifth Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer, Grade Level Expectation: 1. Using interdisciplinary knowledge, investigate and interpret how diverse communities address issues relevant to their place and times. Evidence Outcome: a. Investigate how the reciprocal relationship between a work of visual art and design and the context of its culture deepens understanding.