1. Kelley Griffin Transformative Unit

2. Unit Level Questions
• What is your idea of the “human habitat?”
• To what extent does the human habitat
change throughout different geographical
locations, socio-economic statuses, cultures
and time-periods?
• How can we affect our own human habitat?
• To what extent does technology, nature, and
society affect the “human habitat?”

3. Who is this?

4. Auto-Biographical Still Life
● Students will choose objects that represent
themselves
● They will create a charcoal drawing of their still
life
– How can how we arrange these objects affect
their meaning?
– How can lighting affect the mood of a piece?
– Peer critique, was the artist successful in
telling you about themselves through visual
language an associations?

5. Who is this?

6. ● What sort of emotions does this painting evoke?
● “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano
with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or
another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
– Wassily Kandinsky

7. Abstract Space
● How is art like music? How is it not like music?
– Universal language, minor chords are
interpreted as sad across the world,
However meaning is not consistent
throughout cultures.
● Students will be asked to represent an
important space through abstraction
● Exploring non-representational art
● How can we reduce something has
complicated as confrontation to a few lines
and colors?

8. What sort of people would live here? Why?

9. What sort of people would live here? Why?

10. Fantasy Landscape
● Students create a fantasy community
● Develop landscape to encompass that
community's values
● Students will brainstorm ideas on how they
can shape their community to be more aligned
with their values

11. Living in Time
● Students will create an original character
whose values mimic their own
● Place them in a time/place that exemplifies
their values
● Explore alternate timelines for more
possibilities
● Use context clues to inform the viewer

12. Steampunk, example of alternate history