CALL FOR CURRICULUM

#510: If The Shoe Fits… March 10 - April 14, 2006
Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Click here to download the application.
Applications are also available in hardcopy at the Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60603. Deadline for submission of curriculum September 9th, 2005.

Art Educators are invited to create and submit curriculum to be used with this project by schools around the globe. The themes of recognition and transformation are rich with classroom potential, from students responding to the exhibited tales, creating their own #510 tale, or developing a new version in collaboration with a distant school. Text and visual based possibilities are endless! Lesson plan design requires that submissions creatively address
the known criteria of a #510 tale. (Refer to the tale type description in #510 Background on the application form.) To assist Art Educators in designing lesson plans for submission, the exhibition website resources page posts both:

- Folklorists' criteria used to identify a #510 tale.
- An annotated bibliography (as examples) of published #510 versions.
- (The juried artists' books for exhibition will be posted after selection.)

Strategies for exploring tale type #510 might include the connection between various cultural interpretations; including notions of power and privilege within the family structure. While examining the tale through a different cultural lens, students will have the opportunity to explore and appreciate differences without fear, while simultaneously celebrating similarities. Dependent upon age appropriateness, story-related themes for exploration might include (but is not at all limited to): dating rituals, death, patriarchy, family dynamics (including step and/or mixed families), gender expectations, grief, magic, matriarchy, misogyny, privilege/power, psych/social/phenomena, sexuality and spirituality.

Through an exchange of visual culture (images and written language) between local and distant schools, #510: If The Shoe Fits… seeks to increase an awareness of multiple societies, inspiring a response through a shared classroom art making process.

Guidelines
- Multiple lesson plans and/or units may be submitted for consideration. An advisory board will review curricula. Selected curricula will be posted on the project website.
- Each submission should be accompanied by a typed application and include:
- Art Educator's full name, phone number, address, email address, and current school affiliation.
- Descriptive title of each lesson or unit indicating the artistic discipline required and the intended student grade level.
- Required Materials/Resources, Objectives, State Standards, Activities, and Assessment.
- Examples of artwork produced via lesson plans, if possible.

Please see TEACHING RESOURCES page for an example.