Mural Arts from Concept to Creation
Lesson Overview: This lesson plan focuses on creating a mural, integrating visual arts with academic standards and arts-integrated teaching practices. The plan emphasizes collaboration, community storytelling, and developing artistic skills. The lesson plan guides students through creating a collaborative 6' x 8' mural that powerfully explores heritage, identity, and community resilience through a structured five-session journey—from initial mapping and thematic research to color palette selection, design development, and painting techniques—ensuring students gain both technical proficiency and conceptual depth. Beyond developing artistic skills, this lesson empowers students to understand how public art functions as a transformative medium for community storytelling, collective healing, and meaningful communal change, while fostering collaborative problem-solving throughout the creative process.
