Installations: Frankie Toan, Strange Familiars
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Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Strange Familiars features works by Installation Artist Frankie Toan. Find yourself immersed in a fantastical world composed of soft sculptures exploring humankind’s relationships with nature and each other.
Type of Video: Tour*
Unique Video ID: AandA-Toan**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- For Discussion: Have students respond to the video in the role of an art critic. How would they evaluate the exhibition? How well does the artist meet his stated objectives? Would they recommend attending the exhibit? Why or why not?
- Activity Idea: Use the video in conjunction with an activity that has your class creating its own immersive installation based on a theme of your choice. How does it affect what they create and how they create it knowing that people will walk around it and interact with it?
- Activity Idea: Use the video as part of EDI activities in your classroom.
*Tours take students to laboratories, studios, workspaces, museums and other diverse “in the field” and community locations related to the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
