Participating in USSEA's Student Art Exchange and Exhibition is Easy!
Interested teachers should follow these simple steps:
1. Identify a group of students to participate. We welcome students of all ages and ability levels.
2. Consider using the Guiding Questions (shown below) to stimulate group discussions and/or individual student's reflections on the theme Building a Civil Society through Art.
3. Take photos of students' work in progress and email images (in jpeg format) to USSEAart@gmail.com. Please include your name, school, city, state, and country. These images will appear on the Work in Progress page of this website.
4. Allow students to view the images provided on the Work in Progress page in order to gain new perspectives on how others have responded to this theme.
5. Take photos of students' final artworks and email images (in jpeg format) to USSEAart@gmail.com. Please include your name, school, city, state, country, as well as each participating student's first name*. These images will appear on the Final Exhibition page of this website.
*Please note that providing students' names for artwork uploaded to the Final Exhibition page is optional. Please use the following permission form to acquire parents' consent for their child's participation.
1. Identify a group of students to participate. We welcome students of all ages and ability levels.
2. Consider using the Guiding Questions (shown below) to stimulate group discussions and/or individual student's reflections on the theme Building a Civil Society through Art.
3. Take photos of students' work in progress and email images (in jpeg format) to USSEAart@gmail.com. Please include your name, school, city, state, and country. These images will appear on the Work in Progress page of this website.
4. Allow students to view the images provided on the Work in Progress page in order to gain new perspectives on how others have responded to this theme.
5. Take photos of students' final artworks and email images (in jpeg format) to USSEAart@gmail.com. Please include your name, school, city, state, country, as well as each participating student's first name*. These images will appear on the Final Exhibition page of this website.
*Please note that providing students' names for artwork uploaded to the Final Exhibition page is optional. Please use the following permission form to acquire parents' consent for their child's participation.
USSEA looks forward to presenting participants' work at the InSEA World Congress in July 2019!
Guiding Questions
Questions to engage elementary students with this theme include:
What is a society?
What does it mean to be civil?
What are examples of civil behavior?
How do individuals display civil behavior and how do groups of people exercise civility?
What are examples of uncivil behavior?
How can groups of people promote or build civility?
In order to promote a more civil society, what images do you want to share with others? What visual metaphors might represent civility?
Do you have a personal story to tell about building a civil society?
Questions to engage secondary students with this theme include:
(The questions listed above may also be appropriate for secondary level students.)
What specific behaviors exemplify civility, and what do you think motivates these behaviors?
What specific behaviors exemplify incivility, and what do you think motivates these behaviors?
What circumstances cause you to act in a civil manner and what conditions cause you to act in an uncivil manner?
How can civility be cultivated among a group of people?
Can and/or should societies agree on what defines civility?
If groups of people do not agree on what defines civility, how might they work toward establishing a reasonable compromise?
Might conditions exist that call for incivility? If these conditions exist, what might be a reasonable alternative that would not compromise the need for immediate attention and action?
How might dialogue encourage friendship among groups that disagree?
What is socially-engaged art, and can you cite a few examples?
What is a society?
What does it mean to be civil?
What are examples of civil behavior?
How do individuals display civil behavior and how do groups of people exercise civility?
What are examples of uncivil behavior?
How can groups of people promote or build civility?
In order to promote a more civil society, what images do you want to share with others? What visual metaphors might represent civility?
Do you have a personal story to tell about building a civil society?
Questions to engage secondary students with this theme include:
(The questions listed above may also be appropriate for secondary level students.)
What specific behaviors exemplify civility, and what do you think motivates these behaviors?
What specific behaviors exemplify incivility, and what do you think motivates these behaviors?
What circumstances cause you to act in a civil manner and what conditions cause you to act in an uncivil manner?
How can civility be cultivated among a group of people?
Can and/or should societies agree on what defines civility?
If groups of people do not agree on what defines civility, how might they work toward establishing a reasonable compromise?
Might conditions exist that call for incivility? If these conditions exist, what might be a reasonable alternative that would not compromise the need for immediate attention and action?
How might dialogue encourage friendship among groups that disagree?
What is socially-engaged art, and can you cite a few examples?
