Creative Sustainability - Illustrating Social Action

Throughout the Creative Sustainability unit, students have explored ways that messages about sustainability are expressed through art. In this lesson, students will explore how places can be affected by human activity and use artwork to illustrate how places can show the impacts of environmental issues. They will select a place, for example, the school yard, a local park, coral reef, or bushland, and create an artwork that juxtaposes a ‘healthy’ version with a version experiencing negative environmental impacts. Students will write an artist statement that will accompany their artwork and take an active role in organising a class exhibition.