Art & Indigenous Education Unit

In thinking of how I could supplement Indigenous education content at my school, I was lucky to be on the same grade team (or department, if you will) as the dedicated Indigenous Education Teacher. Thanks to his input, I was able to brainstorm ideas for a supplementary Indigenous Arts unit, which he was able to use in his Indigenous Education programming.

The video below is a demonstration of how students will create a custom stencil which feature multiple scaled Coast Salish Art Elements or full stencils of Coast Salish symbols.

One should note that this unit was created and tested in partnership with my colleague after he expressed interest in how the 3D printing technology could possibly augment his program. I suggest to anyone interested in this work to present it to your own Indigenous Education colleagues before teaching the unit.

You will find resources for the unit below the video.

Check out Perpetual Salish for copies of Coast Salish Art Elements and other good resources.

Below is a demo of how to use Online-Convert, if required.