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Final Assignment Coast Salish Art: Part 2My awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed. I learned that Coast Salish Art has deeper meaning behind it, that the shapes aren't just placed at random and that there is a reason for where each shape is placed. I learned that crescents can be used for beaks and claws, that circles can be used for joints and eyes, trigons can be used for wings and U-forms can be used for tails. I find it very meaningful how not only does each shape have meaning, but so do the animals. Creating my own drawing of Coast Salish Art made me appreciate the design process that goes into the making of each animal artwork....
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digital citizenshipParagraph: Our community is including the coast Salish art more in places. I know the shapes and drawings in coast Salish art, and I noticed some places including it. For example, in Coquitlam central station, and surrey central station, there are some coast Salish art inside the sky train stations, so people are trying to decorate the places more with the art. Also in schools, I find that teachers include assignments and assemblies to teach kids more about the Indigenous community. Another example is, in my old middle school, we always did coast Salish art drawings, and in our morning announcements, they included the acknowledgements for the community....
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Coast Salish ArtReflection Question: Thinking about creating this piece of digital art and the Edublog posts, how have your digital knowledge and skills improved this year? Be specific and give at least one example....
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DL Final Assignment: Coast Salish art Part twoThinking: a) How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example. This assignment has changed my awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community because now I am much more knowledgeable of the Coast Salish art. Every shape has a meaning to it, so you can use the combinations of shapes to tell different messages about the animals. For example, the crescent represents the moon. So if you were trying to tell your viewers that your animal is nocturnal, for example, you could out crescents on a wolf design. Knowledge of this art style affects my life because now, when I view the art, I can see that the Coast Salish used the shapes in the art to tell us about the subject. I didn't know this before and I know that instead of their art just being a picture, it can almost be a message telling you about the subject....
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