Performance Art


Minnesota K-3 Visual Art Standards Used in This Lesson:

  • 1. Identify the elements of visual art including Color, line, shape, Form, Value, texture and space.

  • 2. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.

  • 3. Identify the characteristics of visual artworks from a variety of cultures including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 4. Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

  • 5. Share and describe a personal artwork and reflect on a presentation based on the feedback of others.

  • 6. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a variety of works of visual art.

    • Additional Tie-ins

  • Performance
  • Audience participation
  • Multimedia

    • Students are shown a few videos of performances:
    A skater
    Blueman Group
    The painter Nina Vitanova
    David Garibaldi.

    The teacher discusses how Performance art is all about doing an artwork in front of an audience. Sometimes that art may be dance, sometimes it may be drawing, painting or sculpture.

    Sometimes we go up to the weight-room and gather in a circle to do our performances. That way we can all be performers and the audience at the same time. Students are given a prompt of something to perform.

    Prompts are taken from this list:
  • Drive a car
  • Elephant
  • Thunderstorm
  • Fishing
  • Baseball player
  • Getting a gift on your birthday
  • Crazy dancer
  • Exercise: Situps or pushups
  • Napping
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  • Opera Singer
  • Getting a Present
  • Climbing (rope, rocks, ladder)
  • Scientist
  • Swimming
  • Dog
  • cat
  • Day at the beach
  • Snow day/Building a snowman
  • Finding a great book in the library
  • Shopping
  • Ice skating
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  • Weight Lifter
  • Cooking
  • Elephant
  • On a ship in wavy seas
  • Catching butterflies in a net
  • Cooking
  • Lunch Lady
  • Trapped in a glass box
  • Statue
  • Painting a masterpiece
  • Trapped in a Minecraft game