Kara walker is a contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker. Her work is inspired by raced, gender, sexuality, violence and identity. She is most known for her silhouette work. In this video, Kara Walker discusses her challenges starting out as a well-known young artist. "You can declare yourself as an artist, then be an artist." "A lot of my work has been about the unexpected; kind of wanting to be the heroine, and yet, wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. And that kind of dilemma, that push and pull, is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make." Kara Walker works in silhouettes because we have difficulty looking directly at difficult subjects. The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin, 2015 Kara Walker Inspired Lesson PlanDiscussion: Kara Walker is heavily influenced by literature and struggles with her admiration for the heroine as well as wanting to kill the heroine. She questions the representations of African Americans, particularly in literature.
How does Kara Walker present multiple perspectives in her silhouette work? How does she work with issues of identity? Cultural identity? Individual identity? Prescribed identity? Lesson: Looking to Kara Walker as inspiration, students will work in groups to create silhouette forms from paper to create a response to a given event in history. Students will be given the choice to work in any color, but must work to create a silhouette. The color choice must be symbolic to the meaning of their project.
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