Building My Brand: Shayba Muhammad
10:39
Grades: 5 - 12
Video Description: Jewelry artist Shayba Muhammad uses brass as her medium to make classic minimalist designs for bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. In this program we see examples of her work, hear her insights into working with brass, find out what inspires her, and learn how she creates her beautiful pieces.
Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: CIP-8**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- For Discussion: Have students respond to the jewelry created by the artist. What do they like about the colors, style, etc.? Would they be interested in creating artwork like this? Why or why not?
- For Discussion: How would students go about setting a price for art work or any other personally created item that they produced for selling to the public? What expenses would they take into account? How would they determine what their talents and time were worth? How would they compare their pricing to others?
- Activity Idea: Use the video as part of unit exploring careers in arts and entertainment fields to give students insight into the business side of the art world as well as the creative side.
*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in 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.
