Home: A Sense of Place
Unit Overview:
The concept of home resonates with individuals a sense of belonging, community, identity, and serves both practical and metaphorical purposes. The ‘house’ or ‘home’ represents a place of structure that serves for protection, community bonding, or isolation. This practical structure is universally applied and the enduring theme connects to individuals across multiple time periods. Home is depicted in a variety of ways through artistic interpretations and the application of symbolism and metaphors are noted.
Through multiple lesson formats participants will investigate sense of community and belonging. The idea of home transcends representational concepts and reflects spirituality, community, culture, and identity. In addition the building structure and architectural format within context of period and historical significance will be noted. The home is more than a house, it a sense of being and belonging, a cornerstone or base, a structure beyond walls. It is the beginning and the end, the ebb and a flow.
Stan Dodson
The concept of home resonates with individuals a sense of belonging, community, identity, and serves both practical and metaphorical purposes. The ‘house’ or ‘home’ represents a place of structure that serves for protection, community bonding, or isolation. This practical structure is universally applied and the enduring theme connects to individuals across multiple time periods. Home is depicted in a variety of ways through artistic interpretations and the application of symbolism and metaphors are noted.
Through multiple lesson formats participants will investigate sense of community and belonging. The idea of home transcends representational concepts and reflects spirituality, community, culture, and identity. In addition the building structure and architectural format within context of period and historical significance will be noted. The home is more than a house, it a sense of being and belonging, a cornerstone or base, a structure beyond walls. It is the beginning and the end, the ebb and a flow.
Stan Dodson
Big Ideas
- Home and community are shared experiences that can be based on
geography, spirituality, identity, or culture. - Home can relate time periods, groups of people, or historic events.
- Home creates and/or reflects a sense of belonging.
- Historical and contemporary artists depict home in a variety of styles and context.
Essential Questions?
- How have artists depicted community, identity, and belonging in art?
- In what ways has home been depicted historically and contemporarily?
- What visual and symbolic devices can be used to express a sense of home or community?
- Using formal art elements, can you depict sense of home in art?
Goals:
- Students will engage in discussions, activities relating to sense of home and the impact on art.
- Students will create exemplars that model historical and contemporary home representations both through structure and sense of being.
- Students will learn to identify, apply symbolism in art.
Target grade level:
High School
Estimated unit completion time:
9 weeks
High School
Estimated unit completion time:
9 weeks