Key stage 12 Theme - the destruction of the rainforest. Visit a zoo or bird garden. Draw key plants and birds and produce large-scale banners about the importance of conservation during an “art day”. (This project is amplified in A,N,D, art education magazine, edition 2 - available from NSEAD: 01249 714825.) Key stage 4 Illustrate an “issues” project by introducing pupils to artists who have used art to express protest. For instance; Goya - “The 3rd May” (political tyranny); Judy Chicago, “Rainbow Shabbatt” (the Holocaust); Diego Rivera, “Distribution of Arms” (People’s revolution); Picasso, “Guernica” and Leon Golub, “Vietnam 2” (War); Cheri Samba, “Mr Poor’s Family” (Poverty); Barbara Kruger, “We Are Not What we Seem” (Feminism). Pupils design a protest poster around a chosen issue, collecting and combining appropriate images from observation and magazines.

(The works above are featured in “The American Art Book” and “The 20th Century Art Book” - published by Phaidon )