1. Material & Docent set up List: Docent Clean up List:
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Material & Docent set up List:
Docent Clean up List:
2 x LAMINATOR MACHINE
Give each student:
1 laminate pouch (open it for students)
1 glue stick
1 pencil
1 black sharpie
Give each table :
Basket of scissors
Basket of tissue paper (various sizes lots of blues and greens)
**Make sure you have the laminator ready (ON) and turn OFF when finished**
Make sure names are on paper(s)
Place completed art work in class bins
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!
We have several samples up on the wall to refer students too. Note how each is different – that is our goal of this lesson.

2. Chagall Inspired Peace Windows Art@Booksin
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development: Introduction to stained glass
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Introduction to stained glass
You will learn to :
Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks.
Collage
Today you are going to create your interpretation of Chagall’s ‘Peace Window’ using tissue paper and thermal laminated paper to re-create this art work.
Using “peace” as a theme, students create transparent paintings with floating imagery and Chagall-like colors.
Explain the lesson objective and description.

4. Stained glass window at Suleymaniye Mosque
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
What is stained glass?
It is colored glass used to form decorative or pictorial designs, both by painting and especially by setting contrasting pieces in a lead framework like a mosaic.
Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches, mosques and other significant buildings.
Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Think Tiffany lamps etc.
Stained glass window at Suleymaniye Mosque

5. Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Who is Marc Chagall?
Born in Russia, Chagall moved to France in 1910 and became a prominent figure within the so-called Ecole de Paris.
Later he spent time in the United States and the Middle East, travels which reaffirmed his self-image as an archetypal "wandering Jew.”
Chagall became an early modernist, eventually creating works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries, and fine art prints.
Today’s lesson however focuses on Marc Chagall, a dream-like quality is characteristic of almost all of Chagall's work. He has many important works but today’s lesson is about stained glass so we will look more closely at these works of Chagall.
Chagall was a notable contributor to modern stained glass, yet he started late in his career. It was not until 1956, when he was nearly 70 years old, that he undertook his first major project, contributing windows to the village church at Assy, in the French Alps, along with Bonnard, Braque, Lipschitz, Matisse, and Rouault.

6. Oil on canvas - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
One of the most influential art pieces of our featured artist - Marc Chagall:
I and the Village (1911)
Oil on canvas - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Docents don’t spend too long on this image, today’s lesson focuses on stained glass. Remind students that they have already seen work by Marc Chagall – this one is from the self portrait lesson.

7. Stained glass window - United Nations Building, New York
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
This is the inspiration for today’s art lesson. You will be making your version of this using your own symbols of PEACE. This window is a living memorial to all those who died in the cause of world peace. Chagall’s colorful, dream-like images symbolize peace, love, tolerance and faith.
Called “Peace”, the memorial is some 15 feet wide and 12 feet high. It includes several symbols of peace and love, such as the young child in the center being kissed by an angelic face emerging from a mass of flowers. The breadth and detail of the window is staggering, comprised of free-floating figures and faith-based symbols throughout, co-existing blissfully in a heaven-meets-earth setting. Chagall considered this window, not just a memorial to one man, but a thank-you card of sorts to the country that granted him asylum during his time of need in World War II.
In reality, Marc Chagall’s life was filled with tragic events and the world he lived in was anything but peaceful. In light of this fact, students can begin to understand an artist’s ability to share healing, inspiration and encouragement.
As a back note: Commissioned following the sudden death of the UN's secretary general, Dag Hammarskjold, killed in a plane crash in The committee invited Chagall to contribute a piece of his work, and it was soon decided that the monument would be a free-standing piece of stained glass.
Peace (1964)
Stained glass window - United Nations Building, New York

8. Some of Chagall’s images of Peace:
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Some of Chagall’s images of Peace:

9. What are your images of Peace?
Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
What are your images of Peace?
Use the following prompts for discussion and to generate ideas:
— What are some of the symbols we use to show “peace”? (peace icon, dove, “V” with fingers, etc.)
— What are some things you can think of that we say are “peaceful”? (a sleeping baby, a garden, a clear starry sky, a fish pond, a waterfall, etc.)
— What are some things that you do that make you feel “at peace”? (reading, hugging, sleeping, drawing, etc.)

10. Process - Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Ideas to inspire you:
“Stained glass has to be serious and passionate,” said Marc Chagall. “It has to live through the perception of light… For me a stained-glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.”
Docents have this slide on the screen while students are working on their piece – thank you!

11. Process - Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Open the laminating pouch and roll the top under so it stays open.
Draw five or six ‘Peace’ images on colored tissue.
NOTE: Images should be a different color to background
Cut around the images
Docents please make sure the laminator is not on, it takes a couple of minutes to heat up (once green light is on its ready to use). Just feed pouch through with joined side first.
Don’t spend too much time on the images – details should be added once window laminated.

12. Glue pieces in place (glue on pouch not tissue works best).
Process - Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Place colored tissue paper around symbols to cover area desired onto the laminating pouch. Overlap / bunch as desired.
Glue pieces in place (glue on pouch not tissue works best).
Give pouch to docent to laminate (using laminator).
Docents you will need to seal each pouch using the laminator.

13. Outline a frame and the peace symbols using sharpie (both sides).
Process - Chagall Inspired Peace Windows
Outline a frame and the peace symbols using sharpie (both sides).
Look for lines forming in the tissue paper inside and trace them to form "lead" lines (both sides).
Sign your name on THE FRONT your glass window!
Windows may be cut into shapes after heat-sealing.

14. Lesson plan adapted from DICKBLICK.com
Art history lesson slides are original and built from various sources.
By Tara Button
February 2016, updated Sept 2017