The Block

I found this weeks reading on the website of Romare Bearden to be very interesting. Not only is his art style very unique, but students can also learn about the Civil Rights Movement, and the treatment of African Americans through his story and his art. This would be a useful website to allow students to explore in a classroom. The students can then look at his collage The Block, and use it to possibly construct their own version of their own block of houses, relating it back to their own lives. The students can use similar materials to that of what Bearden used in his art, “colored paper, metallic papers…fabric, and images cut and photocopied from newspapers and magazines” as stated on the website.