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    		•  Michael Ray Charles Studio Project

    While students studied Richard Wright's Black Boy and historical events directly related to slavery and the development of the "sambo" image discussed The Interview With Michael Ray Charles by Bagigaupi and Kern Foxworth. Students then critically and analytically discussed and wrote about the paintings of Michael Ray Charles before they were assigned the studio project.

    Objective: To get students to create a work of art that uses stylistic characteristics of Michael Ray Charles, but questions of stereotypes that constitude a part of their daily lives.

    Specific Requirements/Suggestions:

    1. Your painting must deal with your own ethnic background. (If you are of mixed heirtage / do as society does. Then prove your point.)
    2. You must have written text incorporated into your work.
    3. You need to have a "dueling duality" present in your work (Images that juxtapose each other and the use of text.)
    4. Write an artist statement on the issue your painting addresses.
    5. Think advertising as you design this work. What colors will you use? What about the size of certain objects? Placement/composition are very important.
    Materials: Canvas boards, tempera paint, eggs, brushes.

    Time: 4 weeks.

    Procedures:

    1. Students create a rough draft on newsprint. This should include text as well.
    2. Using carbon paper images are transferred onto the canvas board.
    3. Working on areas that can be completed in 30 minutes, students mix eggs into the desired color.
    4. Paint.
    5. Write the artist statement.
    Genetic Rubric for grading the student product:
    1. Daily studio participation:
      • working daily
      • set up
      • clean up (quarter after the hour)
    2. Rough draft:
      • design
      • use of text
      • color scheme
      • design transfer
    3. Painting techniques:
      • applicaion
      • surface techniques
      • craftsmanship
    4. Finished painting
    5. Artist Statement
    Assessment: Place all projects (finished and unfinished) on display and have a "gallery walk," class discussion, and close with a written reflection. Student should write about the creative precess, successes and failures along the way, what they learned, which painting capture the essence of the assignment the best, how their work fits in comparison, and their overall opinion of the assignment.