2012-2013 JDSP Teacher Resource Packet - Milwaukee Art Museum

Tour 3: World Communities
Background
People around the world share common activities such as eating, sleeping, working, and
celebrating significant events in their lives. Where people live, however, may affect what
they eat and how they work and celebrate. This tour uses works of art from the Museum’s
Collection to look at Western cultures (European and American) and non-Western cultures
(Asian, African, and Haitian).
Objectives
Investigate Western (European and American) and non-Western (Haitian, Asian, and
African) art that depicts and/or represents everyday life and customs.
Understand that the people of the world are more alike than different.
Discuss how people
1. share the activities of work, leisure/play, celebrations, and the making of useful
objects;
2. are affected by varying environments (climate, resources, etc.);
3. live in many communities—family, school, village, city, state, country, continent, the
world.
Primary Point
We can discover the cultures of different people throughout the world through observation
of objects, paintings, and sculpture. Through this tour, students will look at objects and
paintings that depict people in communities around the world—how they live, work, play,
celebrate, and make use of objects.
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