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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Canada

Who Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What can a self-portrait reveal about an artist? Discuss various self-portraits before tasking your pupils with creating their own. Learners research artists, develop an idea of their own individuality, and create photo collages with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Collage and Photomontage

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders discuss collage and photomontage techniques and artists, and how the art form can convey cultural or current issues. They research a collage artist, then design a topical or personally symbolic collage. Present their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Visual Messages: Creating a Photomontage

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a photomontage. In this instructional activity on photography as a means of conveying emotion, students use images gathered from the Internet to create a photomontage comparing how water is used in Africa and the U.S.
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Website
Other

Rowena Dugdale: Collage & Photomontage Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a personal site of illustrator Rowena Dugdale. It includes her portfolios of work in collage and photomontage. She explains her creative process as well some personal information about her. Her new work consists of images created...
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Other

Pictures of the Year

For Students 9th - 10th
For over 63 years POI has offered photographers to submit their images to be judged on an international level. It also provides an archive of incredible images for all to see.
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Other

Romare Bearden Foundation

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides not only a biography of this great African-American artist, but many beautiful images of his work. At this site you can use "Bearden in the Classroom," for teaching ideas across grade levels. A great place to explore!
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in Night

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Images have power-they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.
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Website
Other

David Hockney

For Students 9th - 10th
Whether you are familiar with his paintings or his photograph collages you are sure to enjoy seeing them here on his official website. Many colorful images and an illustrated biography make this a place to visit if you want to learn more...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Stepanova, the Results of the First Five Year Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered what came before Photoshop? After the First World War, artists in Germany and the Soviet Union began to experiment with photomontage, the process of making a composite image by juxtaposing or mounting two or more...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: W. H. Martin

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, W. H. Martin is described here along with information on his contributions to art through photography and his perfection of photomontage.