1. By Ashley Redden

2. Visual Culture in a classroom Unlike the DBAE Emphasizes creative experiences through transformation Approach using Popular images Toys, dolls, and other objects Media and technology such as film and movies What is Visual Culture?

3. Marcel Duchamp Cindy Sherman Ron English Barbara Kruger “immortalized everyday objects, signs, and symbols by compelling their viewers to find new meaning in the familiar, thereby exposing the delicate balance between the visual and the invisible, the cultural and the political” (Darts, 2006). Artists & Activists

4. An assemblage, collage Cross-cultural connection made between pop culture and classic paintings and works of art Edvard Munch’s The Scream Terese’s Bratz doll Drug Doll Judy’s Results of Alcohol Abuse Transforming

5. What is beauty? What is sexy? What is hot? What is ugly? Media and culture are interwined in our life and in art Requires students to question norms and think critically about pop visual culture: Descriptive traits, ages, cultures, weights of different women with different models’ faces to make the model look grotesque in a collage Collages

6. Things that get kids attention Example of Visual Culture at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_i d=annotation_218944&v=ikTxfIDYx6Q&src_vid=fum- 0huccD8 Example of Visual Culture with meaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4b2ZeVEaM&featu re=relmfu Visual culture is all around. Integration of Technology

7. Darts, David. (2006). Head game$: Engaging popular vi$ual culture. Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies, 101-102. Duncum, Paul. (2006). Introduction: Visual culture as a work in progress. Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies, ix-xii. Freedman, Kerry. (2003). The professional field: Theorizing visual culture in education. Teaching Visual Culture: Curriculum, Aesthetics, and the Social Life of Art, 1-8; 14-18. Staikidis, Kryssi with William Higgins. (2006). Visual culture in Mr. Higgins’ fifth grade art classroom. Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies, 12-23. Vollrath, Marissa M. (2006). Drawing on the toy: Contemporary perspectives on childhood by children. Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies, 24-30. References