Curator Led Tours: Fashion as Art
3:40
Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Artists use a variety of fabrics and sources to create fashion based art. Vintage party dresses become prints, cloth from Togo is used to make gorgeous wearable art and more.
Type of Video: Tour*
Unique Video ID: AandA-FashionasArt**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- For Discussion: Discuss the concept of “fashion as art.” What examples can students give of “fashion art” they have seen? What made it “art” to them?
- Activity Idea: Use the video as inspiration for a student art project focused on creating from fashion/fiber or creating art to be used as fashion. Exhibit the works accompanied by a description written by each student artist.
*Tours take students to laboratories, studios, workspaces, museums and other diverse “in the field” and community locations related to the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
