TOTEMS

Every once in a while I get to collaborate with classroom teachers to do an art project.  Cross-curricular projects seem to be much more meaningful for students.  The subject was totem pole of the Northwest Coast.

There's a lot to this project: history, symbolism, color theory, repetition, proportion to name a few.  After viewing a power point presentation about the Northwest Coast totems, each student began planning their own piece.  I limited the number of slots for each animal so we would have more variety.

The collage part of this seemed to be the most difficult, proportion being one of the toughest things to overcome. Students were asked to show repetition and to build layers for more interest.