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Art of the Story School Program

 

Exploring Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series

Art of the Story is a three-part school program that focuses on Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series and emphasizes curriculum connections between visual and language arts. Surrounded by panels from The Migration Series, students discuss Lawrence's use of color, pattern, and shape to tell the story of The Great Migration. Reading Bryan Collier's Uptown in a gallery of color-field paintings gives students another model for using words and images to tell a story. In the art workshop, students interpret a caption from The Migration Series through collage, making their own artistic choices to transform colored shapes into patterns, people, places, and things.

Gallery activities:
• Gallery games organizing narrative structure
• Reading a book as a group
• Making a collage based on one of Lawrence's captions

Curriculum connections:
• Language arts: oral and written, narrative structure, setting
• Social studies: migration and immigration, segregation and discrimination, community, transportation, geography
• Visual arts: visual narrative, series, color, shape and pattern

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Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination, 1940-1941. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north, 1940-1941. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.