DESIGNING A COAT OF MANY CULTURES™
In a 5-day residency, Madona Cole-Lacy engages students in five 90-minute workshops to create textile art panels for a giant coat. Participants are introduced to textile art from multi-ethnic sources and incorporate symbols and images of their respective cultures in this group project. Students research, celebrate and share aspects of their own cultural heritage and acquire skills necessary to create their own textile surface designs. In a collaborative process,the artist constructs and prepares coat for installation. Also available: a school-wide project option that can be tailored to fit 45- minute blocks for Art and Social Studies Teachers.
Grades K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Other Standards SS
Duration 90 minutes x 5 sessions
INTRODUCTION TO WEST AFRICAN SURFACE DESIGNING
Madona Cole-Lacy, textile artist and cultural arts educator, presents the artistry of authentic West African textiles and their cultural messages, personal uses and individual identities. Participants discuss and research the relationship between African geography, culture and textile patterns. Identify and explore surface design techniques. Use student-made and authentic materials to create unique African-inspired surface designs on natural fabric for scarves or t-shirts. West African hand-stamping techniques are incorporated into design. A school-wide Social Studies and Art department collaborative option for installation art for is also available.
Grades 9,10,11,12, Professional Development Duration 90 minutes
| WEST AFRICAN FASHION AND CULTURE INTERACTIVE FASHION SHOW |
Madona Cole-Lacy, wearable artist and fashion designer, presents the ethnicity, function and design details of West African fashions in a mini educational fashion show! Ceremonial attires and the role of the 'Ashoibi' in distinguishing groups at festive occasions are highlighted. Demonstration of how to 'Tie Lappa' and ‘Henkincha’ and a mini fashion show of traditional and contemporary fashions and accessories are staged by students and teachers.
Grades K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 90 minutes
THE HISTORY OF WEST AFRICAN FASHIONS AND CULTURE
This interactive cultural enrichment workshop is a perfect aid for social studies as well as art teachers who would like to acquaint their students with the history of West African fashions. It explores the effects of social and political changes on West African (Sierra Leonean) fashions. Participants take a fashionable trip which begins with visuals of authentic fashions worn by liberated Africans and ends with fashions of contemporary West Africa. |
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Professional Development 45mins./90mins.
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
THE ART OF SELF-ESTEEM
Madona Cole-Lacy helps students understand that how they feel about themselves has a direct effect on the way they treat others and themselves. Participants identify 'self-esteem busters' and ways to protect, raise or reinforce their self-esteem and develop good character as they design and create a self-esteem multi-media collage depicting high self-esteem. The Option of two 45-minutes workshop sessions available.
k,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Professional Development 90 minutes |
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DESIGNING A WALL OF GOOD CHARACTER™'
Through this residency, Madona Cole-Lacy helps students at all grade levels to understand the importance of good character through discussion, audio-visuals and role-playing as she reviews the six pillars of character. Following a demonstration of ways to visually represent character traits, students work collaboratively to create fabric panels and assist artist to assemble panels into wall art for permanent installation on what will be known as their school’s 'Wall of Good Character.'
K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 45 minutes x 3 sessions per class |
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TEXTILE DESIGN WORKSHOPS
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC FABRIC DESIGNING
| Madona Cole-Lacy demonstrates how fabrics are hand-stamped with wood-cut and found objects. Students learn how to organize motifs into patterns on fabric and how to use authentic multi-ethnic woodcut stamps, commercial stamps and various found objects. Instruction is given on the use of textile paints . Each participant works on a 16"x16" fabric panel which can be framed and displayed as wall art. A school-wide collaborative option for a giant wall art installation is available. |
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| K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Professional Development 45/ 90 minutes |
WEARABLE ART
Wearable artist and textile designer Madona Cole-Lacy takes participants through the process of using a variety of surface designing tools to create wearable art. Emphasis is placed on'going green' with multi-cultural surface designing methods. Students get to express their creativity by applying their own original patterns on scarves, t-shirts and neckties, emphasizing ways fashion accessories can be transformed into wearable art to reflect the personality of the artists as they apply the elements of a good design. Optional two 45-minutes workshop sessions available.
PreK,K,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,Professional Development 90 mins.
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SCIENCE
MY TIME HAS COME...To Go Green
Social and Cultural arts Educator, Madona Cole-Lacy, helps students develop and maintain enthusiasm for championing a clean pollution-free environment. Students identify and discuss measures they can take to 'go green' within their school and community at large. They create multimedia visuals depicting a 'go green' theme and collaboratively construct a recycling bin that coveys their take on ‘going green. The bin can serve as a functional vessel or as an art installation in host school or community organization.
K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 (6) 45 mins. sessions / (6) 60 mins. sessions |
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THE ART OF STEM- Science,Technology.,Engineering,Math
The time has come for your students to be excited about science, math, creative writing and technology in the real world. With her passion to impart knowledge and her exceptional ability to bring to life a blending of the elements of math, science and technology; Madona Cole-Lacy, changes the way students perceive 'reading, writing and arithmetic' as they execute customized STEM and creative writing projects utilizing graphic arts, textile design and computer technology.
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 45mins/4 sessions per project
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SOCIAL STUDIES
CREATE BLACK HISTORY ART
Multi-sensory interactive workshop allows participants to assist artist in identifying key events in black history, and discussing the resulting feelings of despair and elation of ‘Black America Then and Now." Participants design a Black History timeline collage into which visuals of prominent Black leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama, are incorporated.
K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 45min. /residency
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