First Grade People

After first grade had a class to explore arranging pre cut paper shapes and gluing them down on day one, we were given scissors! For our collage unit, we are discussing why artists create art and focusing on artist Faith Ringgold in particular.  We discussed how she often makes art to tell stories about her childhood and important people from her life. We read Tar Beach discussed similarities between the illustrations in the book and her painting we saw on day 1 also called  Tar Beach.    As we prepare for our story collages in the upcoming weeks, we practiced making people for this lesson which a strong focus on cutting out circles.  Some artist even picked out their own skin color for the face, hands, and neck. 

                                 Tar Beach #2, Faith Ringgold