Ways to Connect Learning
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Project ideas
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Suggested cross-curricular connections
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This page is developing and contributions are welcome.
Uber for Salmon
Design Thinking Challenge
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Learn about movements to protect water & the issues that those activists are concerned with.
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PDF of the design challenge below
Uber for Salmon
Design Thinking Challenge, using Stanford Design Thinking Model
CBC: How art and spirituality are defining the 'water protectors'
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Device to Root Out Evil
Public art (since removed) to provoke discussions and awareness of colonial practices.
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by Oppenheim (ally: not of indigenous descent)
CBC Article:
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Vancouver Sun, opinion piece:
https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/upside-down-church-provokes-great-debate
Curricular Connection Ideas
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Finances/Business: cost of art, cost vs. benefit: Math, Business, Economics, Social Studies
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Article: The Financial Case for Public Art
https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/05/financial-case-public-art/2113/
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Becker, J., (2004), Americans for the Arts public report “Public Art: the essential component of creating communities, p 14-15
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Urban Design/Development: Social Studies, ADST, Social Justice, Psychology, Philosophy, Physics
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Article: Public Art for Brighter Cities
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Evans, G. (2005). Measure for measure: Evaluating the evidence of culture’s contribution to regeneration. Urban Studies 42, (5), 959-983
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Article: Why Public Art Matters
https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/PublicArtNetwork_GreenPaper.pdf
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Analyzing and Interpreting the work & its context:
What is the purpose of the piece?
What message(s) does it communicate?
Symbolism or metapor?
How does the geographical placement interact with the work?
How has the public responded? Why?
What controversy surrounds the piece?
Negative/positive space, shape, colour, materials... elements of art?
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"That piece, initially called Church, was proposed to the Public Art Fund in the city of New York to be built last year on Church Street, where I live. The director thought it was too controversial, and felt it would stimulate a lot of negative reaction from the Church and the religious population. I then changed the title to "Device to Root out Evil", to sidestep unwanted focus on ambient content. It's a very simple gesture that's made here, simply turning something upside-down. One is always looking for a basic gesture in sculpture, economy of gesture: it is the simplest, most direct means to a work. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven."
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From interview with Oppenheim:
https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag97/oppenh/sm-oppen.shtml
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Oppenheim's Official Website: