When a culture reawakens, that renewal can come in many forms. This book is part of the Myaamia community's ongoing cultural revitalization and aims to educate about the rich history of Miami patterns and their application to ribbonwork beginning in the late 1700s. Myaamia people used the geometric ribbonwork to adorn clothing for special occasions for both men and women, especially leggings, skirts and moccasins.This text is designed to assist in the reawakening of ribbonwork among the Miamis and includes:A history of Miami ribbonwork showing how the geometric patterns were used with other materials as well.Instructions for 3 ribbonwork projects, along with a list of necessary supplies and illustrated explanations of the various stitches used.Images of historic Miami ribbonwork found in North American collections.Examples of contemporary uses for ribbonwork patterns to help inspire community members to find ways to bring ribbonwork patterns into their daily lives.

Contemporary societies are saturated with pictures. They are globally a part of everyday life, and they are seductive, offering values and beliefs in such highly pleasurable forms that it is often difficult to resist their power to persuade. Yet interpreting pictures is largely neglected in schools. Picture Pedagogy addresses this head on, showing that pictures can be used as a powerful form of classroom pedagogy. Duncum explores key concepts and curriculum examples to empower you to support students to develop a critical consciousness about pictures, whether teaching art, media, language or social studies. Drawing on the interpretive concepts of representation, rhetoric, ideology, aesthetic pleasure, intertextuality and the gaze, Duncum shows how you can develop your students' skills so that their power as viewers can match the power of pictures to seduce. Examples from the history of fine art and contemporary popular mass media, including Big Data and fake news, are drawn together and shown to be appealing to the same aesthetic pleasures. Often these pleasures are benign, but also problematic, helping to promote morally questionable ideas about a range of topics including gender, race and sexual orientation, and this is explored fully.

"Globalization -- the interconnectedness of peoples within and across world nations and cultures -- is blurring the lines between once clearly defined groups of people. This makes cultural sensitivity more important than ever in diffusing tensions between differing groups. Culturally sensitive art education can cultivate the ability for students to empathize with and care about others ..."--Publisher's description