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CURRICULUM GUIDE GRADES K- 12 RADCLIFFE BAILEY PENSIVE OCT. 25, 2016–FEB. 5, 2017 SCAD: The University for Creative Careers The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution conferring bachelor’s and master’s degrees at distinctive locations and online to prepare talented students for professional careers. SCAD offers degrees in 43 majors, as well as minors in more than 70 disciplines across its locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia; in Hong Kong; in Lacoste, France; and online through SCAD eLearning. With more than 32,000 alumni worldwide, SCAD demonstrates an exceptional education and unparalleled career preparation. The diverse student body, consisting of nearly 13,000 students, comes from across the U.S. and more than 100 countries worldwide. Each student is nurtured and motivated by a faculty of nearly 700 professors with extraordinary academic credentials and valuable professional experience. These professors emphasize learning through individual attention in an inspiring university environment. The innovative SCAD curriculum is enhanced by advanced, professional-level technology, equipment and learning resources, and has garnered acclaim from respected organizations and publications, including 3D World, American Institute of Architects, Businessweek, DesignIntelligence, U.S. News & World Report and the Los Angeles Times. For more information, visit scad.edu. Cover image: Radcliffe Bailey, Rocking, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS About the SCAD Museum of Art 1 About the Artist 3 About the Curriculum Guide 5 Learning Activities 1. Use family photographs for inspired storytelling 6 2. Question and discover hidden meanings 8 3. Employ metaphor to illustrate history 12 4. Discover the universal in artistic expression 14 Educational Standards 16 Glossary 18 Curriculum Connections 20 Image Credits 22 Related SCAD Degree Programs 24 Museum Maps 26 ABOUT THE SCAD MUSEUM OF ART The SCAD Museum of Art showcases work by acclaimed Museum awards artists, providing opportunities for students from all majors Since opening its doors in October 2011, the renovated to learn from art world luminaries and expand their artistic museum has been celebrated for its inspired architecture points of view. and design, world-class exhibitions, and visionary community outreach and education programs that enrich Mounting more than 20 exhibitions each year, the museum art enthusiasts, educators and students of all ages. has presented solo exhibitions by such renowned artists as Jane Alexander, Uta Barth, Lynda Benglis, Alfredo Jaar, SCAD is proud to be recognized by the following: Sigalit Landau, Liza Lou, Angel Otero, Yinka Shonibare • American Institute of Architects Institute Honor Award MBE, Kehinde Wiley and Fred Wilson, curated alongside for Architecture ever-changing, site-specific installations by such artists as Daniel Arsham, Kendall Buster, Ingrid Calame and Odili • American Institute of Architects South Atlantic Region, Donald Odita. Additionally, the André Leon Talley Gallery Design Award has hosted such couture exhibitions as Little Black Dress, • American Institute of Architects-Savannah chapter, Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style and Vivienne Honor Award (top honor awarded) Westwood’s Dress Up Story — 1990 Until Now. The museum’s • American Concrete Institute-Georgia chapter, first permanent collection includes the Walter O. Evans Collection place in restoration category of African American Art, the Modern and Contemporary • Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter Award Art Collection, the Earle W. Newton Collection of British and American Art, the 19th- and 20th-century Photography • Historic Savannah Foundation, Preservation Award Collection and the SCAD Costume Collection. • International Interior Design Association-Georgia chapter, Best of the Best Forum Design Award and The museum building itself is a work of art, demonstrating Best of the Best Forum Award (education category) the university’s ongoing commitment to historic • National Trust for Historic Preservation, National preservation and adaptive reuse. Constructed in 1853, the Preservation Award original walls feature handmade Savannah gray bricks, • Southeastern Museums Conference Exhibition forming the oldest surviving antebellum railroad depot Competition, Certificate of Commendation for the in the country. In 2011, this National Historic Landmark outstanding exhibit Pose/Re-pose: Figurative Works was transformed into an award-winning, modern museum Then and Now building by architect Christian Sottile, a SCAD alumnus and dean of the SCAD School of Building Arts. • Southeastern Museums Conference Publication Competition, 2012 Gold Award, outstanding design, SCAD students are the heart of this teaching museum; for the Walter O. Evans Center for African American they attend academic classes and career workshops, Studies Curriculum and Resource Guide lecture series, film screenings, gallery talks and annual • American Alliance of Museums’ Museum Publications events within its storied walls. SCAD students also serve Design Competition, first place (educational resources as museum docents, welcoming visitors, interpreting category) for the 2015 SCAD curriculum guide the exhibitions and interacting with illustrious museum accompanying the exhibition Divine Comedy: Heaven, guests. As a center for cultural dialogue, the SCAD Museum Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African of Art engages students through dynamic, interdisciplinary Artists and for the 2016 SCAD curriculum guide educational experiences. accompanying the exhibition History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence 1 2 ABOUT THE ARTIST The SCAD Museum of Art presents Pensive, an Bailey’s work is currently presented in the inaugural exhibition by internationally renowned, Atlanta, installation of the National Museum of African American Georgia-based artist Radcliffe Bailey. A painter, sculptor History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in and mixed media artist, Bailey layers imagery, culturally Washington, D.C. The artist’s work has been viewed in resonant materials and text to explore the themes of prominent public collections such as the Metropolitan ancestry, race and memory. By translating his personal Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, experiences into art, Bailey believes he can achieve an Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, understanding of, and healing from, universal history. Texas; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Central to the exhibition is a site-specific installation among others. titled Storm at Sea that suggests motifs associated with the African-American experience of the trans- The exhibition is curated by Alexandra Sachs, Atlantic slave trade. An arrangement of piano keys executive director of SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion on the museum floor creates a visual experience that + Film and Atlanta Exhibitions, and coincides with the references turbulent ocean waves, splintered boards Textile Society of America symposium, Land, Labor of a wrecked ship and slaves who lost their lives during and the Port, held in Savannah Oct. 19–23, 2016. To the journey. commemorate the occasion of the exhibition and symposium, Bailey will collaborate with the SCAD fibers Additionally, a cast bronze sculpture depicting African- department on the creation of several new works. American civil rights activist and author W.E.B. Du Bois in the pose of Rodin’s The Thinker is situated among a selection of recent mixed media wall artworks focusing on the artist’s material lexicon, including wool military blankets, canvas tarps, Georgia red clay, vintage photographs, taxidermy, black paint and steel. The assemblage and connotations of these materials exhibit Bailey’s poetic, experimental approach and his thoughtful consideration of how his personal narratives intersect with the larger collective history of the African diaspora. Left: Portrait of Radcliffe Bailey 3 “I went to art school because my mom was a schoolteacher … I was led into it — and that was by way of her aunt who introduced her to museums — and so she passed that down to me and that was a beautiful thing.” Radcliffe Bailey 4 ABOUT THE CURRICULUM GUIDE SCAD curriculum guides provide learning opportunities This Radcliffe Bailey guide explores the artist’s mixed that fulfill the requirements of educational standards media works along with the personal, familial and and are designed for use within the museum’s historical references that inform them. Through social exhibition spaces and in classrooms. The guides enhance studies and visual arts standards-based activities, understanding of art and design through investigations students creatively share their own stories and reflect on that reveal relevant personal, historical and cultural those of others. These activities echo Bailey’s desire to connections while promoting cross-disciplinary links create works of art that promote understanding and unity. necessary for today’s innovative careers. Recognizing the guides’ overall design excellence and ingenuity, the American Alliance of Museums’ Museum Publications Design Competition twice awarded SCAD SCAD would like to give special thanks to the Hodge curriculum guides first place in the education category, Foundation for its support of the SCAD Museum of Art’s in 2015 and 2016. award-winning curriculum guides. Left: From background to foreground: Radcliffe Bailey, On Your Way Up, 2013; Radcliffe Bailey,