Article: Seeing with a multicultural perspective.(art lesson based on Helen Hardin's works)

How can the perspectives of other cultures contribute to our own ecological and social awareness? For students at P. S. 164, the Queens Valley School of the Arts, the answer to this question came through completing a unit on composition centered around the work of contemporary Native-American artist Helen Hardin.

I asked the students to imagine images the artist might have seen as a young girl watching dancers perform sacred firelight ceremonies. They compared the materials, shapes, colors and use of space in posters of an authentic Hopi dance wand with a kachina figure and an acrylic painting by Helen Hardin, which was inspired by her memories.

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