Objects and Equity

Relevance:

Relevance:

- Promotes exploration of the ways objects can communicate privilege, status, and wealth, fostering discussions of equity and accessibility

- Addresses the ways personal and communal histories are represented through objects, as well as the ways objects become animated and are ascribed power to affect change across cultures

- Enhances visual literacy and observation skills, providing students with skills needed to grasp all available information and form well-rounded conclusions

Subthemes:

- Still Life Painting, Wealth, & Ownership

- Found Objects, Narrative, and Access

- Animated Objects

- The Everyday

- Collecting