Lesson: Stenciling Street Art

Street Art
Stenciling & Activism

“How can an image be meaningful and used to convey a powerful message to inspire positive change in the world?”

Note: This lesson is a continuation on my unit on meaningful images and follows my lesson on tattoo art and meaningful images.

"Prototype of Symbolic Phoenix Tribal-style Stencil" by Sinthia Cousineau

To learn the technique of stenciling to create an image.
To become familiar with street art techniques.
To discover the meaning and symbolism behind images.
To create images to inspire social or environmental change.
To learn the transformative progression of a simple sketch towards the creation of a stencil poster, thus exploring different methods of evolving an image.
To become familiar with activist art and activism.