Folder Design Project
1. Draw your name in stylized letters as the focal point on the front of your folder.
2. Create images that represent YOU, EHS, + ART - unified with your name design.
3. Write/draw your autobiographical poem with illustrations on the back of your folder.
Featured Artists
Keith Haring - graffiti artist famous for inspiring and educational messages. Haring
created artworks for the Humane Society, UNICEF, children’s literacy projects, AIDS
education, and drug awareness. His style is “cartoony” with thick black outlines around
simple figures. http://www.haringkids.com/index.html
Gajin Fujita - contemporary graffiti artist known for combining images of his Japanese
heritage and his life today in Los Angeles.
http://culturalnews3.tripod.com/features/index.blog?entry_id=1379215
http://www.nyfa.org/level4.asp?id=128&fid=1&sid=51&tid=167
Haring Fujita
Literacy Connections
We used the following format to create an illustrated autobiographical poem -
Portrait Poem by Art Belliveau
Poetry can create pictures in your mind when you read it. An autobiographical poem reveals
something about the person writing the poem. It does not have to rhyme. Below is a simple plan to
write your own autobiographical poem. Just follow the steps and—before you know it—it’s done.
I am (first name):
Son/Daughter of (brother/sister of, or friend of…an important relationship in your life):
Who needs:
Who loves:
Who sees:
Who hates:
Who fears:
Who dreams of:
Who makes pictures of:
Resident of (neighborhood or street or town or state or country or planet or galaxy…):
(last name):
We read and discussed this poem:
A gRaffiTi by Sebastian Meer
With spray paint cans
Upon blank walls
A statement Made
In letters tall
It's mostly names
Of those who came
In search of
Fifteen minute fame
Some colour in
A street of grey
To hide the filth
For one more day
Should we chastise
Those who take part
Or recognise
This crime as art
