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Build Your Reality

This document provides information about the artist Yayoi Kusama including a biography and resources. It discusses how Kusama's art was influenced by her experiences with mental illness and abuse as a child. The document also includes lesson plans for students to explore their understanding of reality by building 3D shapes from nets and creating art representing their personal view of reality using various materials. Vocabulary and supplies needed for the lesson are defined.

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Build Your Reality

This document provides information about the artist Yayoi Kusama including a biography and resources. It discusses how Kusama's art was influenced by her experiences with mental illness and abuse as a child. The document also includes lesson plans for students to explore their understanding of reality by building 3D shapes from nets and creating art representing their personal view of reality using various materials. Vocabulary and supplies needed for the lesson are defined.

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Inspirat ion Art ist

Yayoi Kusama
VIEW S OF REALITY
Throughout history and across cultures, people have been
concerned withviews of realit y.

KEY CONCEPTS: Views of Realit y...

are experienced by different people and cultures


influence actions and art
affect mental health (and vice versa)
are personal
VIEW S OF REALITY
Throughout history and across cultures, people have been
concerned withviews of realit y.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: Views of Realit y...

How is reality experienced differently by different people and cultures?


In what ways do views of reality influence actions and art?
How do views of reality affect mental health?
How are views of reality personal?
Kusama Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZR3nsiIeA (7:24)

https://www.facebook.com/JungleFourNine/videos/vb.251962071804061/65479131469355
5/?type=2&theater (1:30)
About Kusama

M y ar t wor k is an expr ession of my l ife, par t icul ar l y of my ment al disease.

- Y ayoi K usama

Yayoi Kusama's life is a poignant testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human
resilience. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the young
artist persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific artistic
output in various disciplines. This has informed a lifelong commitment to creativity at all costs
despite the artist's birth into a traditional, female-effacing Japanese culture and her career's coming
of age in the male dominated New York art scene. Today, Kusama reigns as one of the most unique
and famous contemporary female artists, operating from her self-imposed home in a mental hospital.

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kusama-yayoi.htm
Yayoi Kusama
Lesson Overview:
Students will explore their
understanding of reality and related
concepts. They will build a 3D shape
using a net and use various mediums
to create a unique and personal
representation of their view of reality
OBJECTIVES: Build Your Realit y
TSW Formative Assessment
(of assigned reading):
Determine the essential idea of the reading Analysis of a central idea,
and how it relates to the lesson through a using textual evidence for
memo support shown through a
reading memo.
Create an object or pattern that represents
their view of realit y
Summative Assessment
(of studio investigation):
Represent t hree dimensional figures using Self-assessment checklist.
nets (templates) made of triangles,
rectangles, and pentagons
Vocabulary

Realit y: the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to
an idealistic or notional idea of them.
Percept ion: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through
the senses.
Choice-based: students are regarded as artists and direct their own
learning by coming up with their own art problems to solve.
Oct ahedron: a three-dimensional shape having eight plane faces, especially
a regular solid figure with eight equal triangular faces.
Dodecahedron: a three-dimensional shape having twelve plane faces, in
particular a regular solid figure with twelve equal pentagonal faces.
Scissors
Supplies Q-tips
Paper
Pipe cleaners
Glue/ Glue sticks
Glue guns
Sparkles, glitter
Templates
Jewels, decorations
String
Confetti
Yarn
Clear scotch tape
Wire
Colored masking tape
Sharpies
Markers
Found objects
Colored pencils
Cardstock
Paint
3D Origami

Inst ruct ions:

1. Fold along lines


2. Glue tabs to form shape

http://www.greatlittleminds.com/pages/maths/3d-nets/3d-nets-octahedron.html
St udio Invest igat ion

1. Visually depict a representation of your view of realit y.


Use any object or medium to create a literal, figurative,
representational, abstract, or nonobjective artwork.
2. Create at least one 3D figure using a template.
3. Photograph your work.
4. Set up your artwork for a gallery walk.
5. Add a title tag if desired.

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