B6 Creative Arts · Term 2 Week 7: Displaying and Sharing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.1.3.4.2

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State at least three reasons why it is important to display own artworks in an exhibition.
Develop a written roadmap for a class exhibition that includes a date, a venue, and a target audience.
Select and group own artworks based on agreed criteria such as theme, creativity, and finishing.
Decide on a mode of display (hanging, draping, or spreading) appropriate for the selected works.
Prepare simple labels for selected artworks showing the title, the artist’s name, and the date.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Displaying and Sharing (1.3)
Content standard: B6.1.3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of how to plan a display/presentation of a portfolio of own artworks by identifying, and preparing a venue, selecting and grouping of artworks and inviting target audience for the planned display/performance
Indicator: B6.1.3.4.2 - Plan an exhibition of own functional and decorative visual artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in the world
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 7 (Week 19 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 111
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- watch a short video on an exhibition or visit an exhibition centre, preferably during the circuit, district or regional cultural festival of the cultural education unit of the Ghana Education Service);
- discuss the need for displaying portfolio of own visual artworks;
- develop a roadmap for the exhibition by:
- fixing a date
- selecting a venue
- inviting an audience
- brainstorm to agree on a theme for the exhibition;
- send manual and/or electronic invitations (e.g. letters, postcards, WhatsApp, E-mail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, announcements, posters, jingles) to target audience, for example parents, PTA/SMC members, stakeholders, colleague learners);
- select works for the exhibition by considering (e.g. creativity and originality, finishing and decoration, relevance of the works to the theme, social and cultural importance);
- decide on mode of display (e.g. hanging, draping, spreading);
- plan the layout of the exhibition hall, prepare labels for the works (e.g. title, name of artist, date),
- clean and prepare the hall and its environment and make it ready for the exhibition;
- plan for post-exhibition activities.