Benefit Posters

Recap: EnvironmentsProject 1, Journals: Artists comment on ecology

and the environment with recycled art

Project 2, Collographs: Environment is a specific place an artist can use to share personal or universal truths.

Project 3, Relief Prints: Environment as any place an artist can interact with and record.

Project 4Artists use work in order to

help change an environment.Q: Can you think of any examples of artists who have made work in

order to influence or change an environment in the past?

What about in contemporary society?

Guernica, Picasso

Artists work with individuals, businesses, non-profit groups and others to influence an environment

through advertising.

Q: Based on what you know about printmaking, would it be a good format for advertising or

reaching large groups of people?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge - La Goulue, lithograph poster (1891)

Contemporary Posters Used to Share Information with Many People:

1) What draws your attention to these posters? (Think about Elements and Principles of Design.)

2) What do the images on these posters tell you?

3) What does the text on this poster tell you?

What draws your attention to these posters?

What draws your attention to these posters?

What do the images on these posters tell you about their meaning?

What do the images on these posters tell you about their meaning?

What does the text on these posters tell you?

What does the text on these posters tell you?

Your Mission:You and a partner work for a design team asked to

represent a benefit event for an environmental cause.

Teams: 1) Freya and Elise2) Natalie and Shayna3) Spencer and Tela4) Sierre and Jada5) Sarah and Ashlyn6) Nondi and Dontez7) Job

Don’t worry, your poster won’t be exactly the same as your partners!

Ecological Benefit Themes to Bounce Around In Your Mind:

GardensFarmingPlanting

Earth DayWater Pollution

Air Pollution / CO2 EmissionsToxic Waste

DeforestationMistreatment of Animals

RecyclingGlacier Melting

LitterNature Preservation

ParksArbor Day

Forest Fires