Now that you have chosen this project, it is your job to follow it step by step and present a completed project.
A group of students in Philadelphia did a similar project. I would like for each of you to go to the following website: http://www.franklinremixed.com/ and review it to see what you like and do not like. You are welcome to use this website as a model for your exhibition. You are not required to audio skits or use Web 2.0 or Wordpress. You may use blogger, flikr.com, and powerpoint to create your web exhibition.
Name: __________________________ Subject: The Harlem Renaissance Exhibit
Teacher Name: Shazia Qureshi, SSC HS Date: ___________________
The Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Design Competition
Introduction:
Harlem is changing! In the 1930s Harlem was buzzing with the sounds of jazz musicians, writers, poets, and artists. It was famous for places like the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. Today, it is famous for Former President Clinton's office on 125th Street and for becoming more and more gentrifide. There is a new migration occuring in New York City. Unlike The Great Migration where African American's moved from the rural areas to urban centers like NYC, over 300,000 (2006) African Americans have decided to move from urban centers like Harlem back to the south. As Harlem changes, it has become increasingly important for their to be both a preservation of its past as well as a commeration to those artists, musicians, poets and writers who made the Harlem Renaissance happen. This preservation and commemoration should not be left to curators and art historians, but to our youth, our students. The students of NYC should be aware of the renaissance that took place in their own backyard, the Harlem Renaissance. The way to do this is not to bring the students to the museum, but to bring the museum to our students in the form of a virtual exhibition that students will create.
Task:
The Studio Museum of Harlem is developing its website to include a virtual exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition is unique in that it will be created by high school students throughout NYC. You will gather information on various artists of the Harlem Renaissance, determine the major themes that connect the works together, you will choose an exhibition/blog design, the exhibition layout, and an exhibition narrative. The exhibit will commemorate musicians, painters and writers. Finally, students will compose a collaborative defense for their design and inclusion of artifact and post that defense in the final post.
Since the Harlem Renaissance produced innovations in so many different areas, you will need to work together in your group in order to effectively represent all the elements. I have divided the task into three roles:
1. Music Expert
2. Writing Expert
3. Art Expert
Each of these experts will tackle a specific aspect of the cultural revolution of the Harlem Renaissance. You must sift through the research provided to evaluate the art forms that contributed to the cultural change. You must all then come together as a team to discuss how each of these elements and the people who pioneered them relate to one another.
Process:
1. You must first research, as a whole team, an overview of the Harlem Renaissance and get a general idea of the major contributors and the art they produced.
These websites will help you get an overview:
http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem_intro.html
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html
2. You must then divide your team into “experts” based on what each member is most interested in researching (art, music, writing.)
3. Each expert will sift through the resources provided and create a list of key people and their contributions to the Harlem Renaissance movement. Use the overview websites to help each expert focus their search and also to start finding information. Obviously, you will not be able to represent every single artist who contributed to the movement, so make sure you pick those people who have either contributed a significant quantity or quality of work. Here are some additional sites geared especially toward each expert's focus, but many have other information that one of the other experts could share. The key here is to balance your individual research and your team research. You want to share the duties but make sure you're all working together.
Artist Expert:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/harlem-renaissance.html
http://www.phillipscollection.org/lawrence/
Music Expert:
http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/jazz/PAGE1.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance#Music
Writing Expert:
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/guides/
http://www.readingwoman.com/harlem.html
4. With research in hand, your group will gather as a team and discuss your top choices to be included in the exhibit. You will explain each piece and its relevance to your team members. As a group, you will further narrow down your selections to create a coherent exhibit. Create titles for artifacts you have decided to combine together. Think about what audiences would be most interested in viewing from each category of art. This is the time to share many of your website findings with your fellow experts, if you haven't already. If you find that you need or want to do additional research outside the websites I have selected for you, make sure that you get these approved by me before using their information.
5. To help you determine the best possible layout for your exhibit, think about what some of the connections are between different paintings, poems, or pieces of music that might lead them to be placed next to one another? Did any of the artists you are featuring know one another? What arrangement would make the most sense to the virtual museum visitors and help them experience the scope of this exciting time?
6. You will write a collective defense for your design, explaining why you chose the artifacts or people you chose to represent in your exhibit, and why you chose the narrative arrangements you did. Refer back the questions asked in step 5. Make sure you address these types of questions in your defense. Think about your audience-- the museum officials -- and try to persuade them to choose your web exhibition design.
7. You will then present your design to the "review board." You will create a powerpoint presentation to Do not simply read your defense paper. You will present a power point presentation containing information on the musicians, writers and artists you have selected, your design and your defense of that design. One museum exhibit will be chosen from those submitted by our class.
Resources:
These websites will help you get an overview:
http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem_intro.html
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html
Artist Expert:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/harlem-renaissance.html
http://www.phillipscollection.org/lawrence/
Music Expert:
http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/jazz/PAGE1.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance#Music
Writing Expert:
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/guides/
http://www.readingwoman.com/harlem.html
Evaluation:
The following rubric will be used to judge student products.
Conclusion:
You have just become experts on one of the most exciting artistic movements in American history! Congratulations! If you are interested, check out existing museum exhibits on African American art and the Harlem Renaissance at these links:
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/africanamerican/harlemren/
http://www.worcesterart.org/Information/PR/Past/12-20-02.html
Now that you have become a group of experts on the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance, you can further your work in several different directions. You know the basics about many songs, paintings, and poetry; experience them for yourselves! Read one of the novels from the era or see one of the paintings or photographs live. Or better yet--visit one of the museums listed above with an actual Harlem Renaissance exhibit and compare it to your idea!
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