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A selection of interactive prompts pulled from Art21’s Educators’ Guides, the Learning Library offers both discussion questions and hands-on activities in relation to Art21 artists and film segments.

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Create an artwork depicting something of importance that people often avoid talking about.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • installation
  • , photography
Study the use of symbols and icons in twentieth- and twenty-first-century advertising. Based on what you learn, create a visual logo for yourself.
  • Type:
  • Create
Choose an alphabet of a particular language, and create imagery based on its design.
  • Type:
  • Create
Choose a contemporary or historical event and design a memorial to commemorate it.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • landscape art
  • , sculpture
Select a character or figure from history and reinvent yourself by merging aspects of your own identity with historical research about these characters.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • film
  • , performance
  • , photography
  • , text
Bring together two or more different types of media to explore a new, hybrid medium.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • painting
  • , sculpture
Transform a found object.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • found object
  • , photography
  • , text
Create a three-dimensional timeline.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • light projection
  • , printmaking
  • , sculpture
  • , textile
In small groups, have each member create an individual “recipe” for an artistic action.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • installation
  • , sculpture
Choose a current topic from the news and divide the class into three groups: one to visually represent the topic (or one side of the issue) as propaganda, one to represent it as marketing, and one to represent it as art.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • printmaking
  • , signage
Create a poem out of images, and an image out of words, based on a single theme, word, or idea.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • collage
  • , installation
  • , photography
  • , printmaking
Create a work of art that communicates something about a group of people without using representations or images of human figures.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • installation
  • , sculpture
Design a work of art from something that is broken or discarded.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • installation
  • , sculpture
Experiment with turning two-dimensional geometric shapes into three-dimensional forms. Using a single piece of paper, create an object that can stand up on its own.
  • Type:
  • Create
Develop a multimedia installation that combines a found object, a projection of that object in motion, and a soundtrack for the object.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • animation
  • , drawing
  • , film
  • , performance
  • , sculpture
Collect a single natural material that you can use and reuse for making artworks. Use it to create a work of art, and then re-form the material into something new in order to make a second work.
  • Type:
  • Create
Design a costume that allows the wearer to assume a new identity. Film or photograph the wearer interacting with others in public.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • installation
  • , photography
  • , sculpture
Subvert an advertisement or redesign an ad campaign in order to alert viewers to a hidden truth behind a specific company or business.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • drawing
Transform a mass-produced object into a sculpture by manipulating its form.
  • Type:
  • Create
  • Media/materials:
  • sculpture
How can a portrait reveal the personality of the sitter?
How has the tradition of portraiture changed throughout history?
Who has the right to depict what bodies at what scale?
How can artists sustain our collective memory of injustice through their work?
How do artists transcend or blend the divisions between spaces?
  • Type:
  • Before
Can art have a social function when placed in either traditional or non-traditional spaces?
  • Type:
  • Before
What metaphors that relate to humanity and the natural world do artists explore?
  • Type:
  • After
Does history represent all of the people who have participated in it?
  • Type:
  • Before
How does this work question ideas of representation?
  • Type:
  • After
What ideas does light represent? What does light mean to you?
  • Type:
  • Before
What role do you think accidents play in art?
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  • After
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