It can be difficult to talk about race and culture, perhaps even more so when those issues are weighing heavily on our students’ minds. I faced challenges growing up as a child of mixed race, and I occasionally process those experiences through my personal artwork. I feel the same outlet helps my students meaningfully engage with their thoughts and emotions about cultural conflict. I hoped to facilitate this engagement through the Floral Folk Art project, which I created four years ago for my level one Computer Graphics classes to provide a segue from line into shape and color.
Art teachers share lessons that focus on media arts, digital processes, and new technologies. Students design and develop meaningful side-scrolling video games, learn light painting techniques to capture long-exposure photographs, turn 2D drawings into 3D-printed models, create a digital floral folk-art piece inspired by their heritage, and more.
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