1. Topics
   1. Social Change
   2. Place
   3. Identity
2. Trends
   1. Interactive
      1. Relational Aesthectics
         1. Social Media
            1. Flash mobs
      2. Collaboration
      3. Dialogue-based
   2. Altered Place
      1. Street Art
         1. Graffiti
         2. Chalk Art
         3. Yarn Bombing
         4. Murals
      2. Public Sculpture
      3. Urban Projection Mapping
   3. EcoArt
      1. Postconsumer
         1. Found Objects Repurposed
      2. Environmental Art
         1. Renewal Projects
   4. New Media
      1. Social Media
         1. Open-Source Art
            1. Flash mobs
            2. [Park]ing Day
            3. Improv Everywhere
         2. Digital media
            1. Interactive
            2. Self-Publishing
            3. Personalized Curation
            4. Sharing amongst social media platforms
            5. Net art
            6. Art that only exists on the web
         3. Globally connected
            1. Topic
         4. Web 2.0
      2. Digital Media
         1. Net art
         2. Second Life
         3. Technology as art (robotics)
         4. Virtual Reality
            1. 4-D Experience
   5. Everyday
      1. Visual Culture
         1. Topic
      2. Exalting the Mundane
         1. Accessible (physically, conceptually, easy to "get")
   6. Interdisciplinary
      1. Art about Education
      2. Science and Art
      3. Technology and Art
         1. Visual Mapping
            1. Translating data into visual structures
   7. Globalization social/political
      1. Identity Construction
      2. Multicultural
      3. Globally Connected
         1. Outsourcing
      4. Human Rights
      5. Political Activism
3. Survey Results & Analysis = Support for project
   1. What is being taught now?
      1. Info based on survey
      2. Linear, categorical
   2. Where are the gaps?
   3. Relationship to mainstream
      1. Disenfranchised
         1. Shocking & inapropriate content
   4. Modes of work
      1. not accessible in the classroom
   5. How is contemporary art being taught?
      1. Not linear
4. Curriculum
   1. Big Ideas
      1. Collaboration: Working on a common goal
      2. Participation: Involvement/Interactive
      3. Interdisciplinary
      4. Linear (Hierarchy) vs Latereral (Heterarchy)
   2. Big Questions
      1. Why is it important to look at artworks being made today or within the last 10 years?
      2. How does contemporary art impact your life?
      3. What topics or issues are today's artists addressing?
      4. How do we define "beauty" in today's art?
      5. How do we define "value" in today's art
      6. Where is the boundary between "art" and "life"?
      7. Why is it important to look at artworks made within and beyond our own culture?
   3. Curriculum development : Topics inherent in contemporary art
      1. New Context
         1. Street/Environment
         2. New Media
      2. Pluralism
         1. Democratic: everyone is a self-proclaimed star!
         2. No hierarchy: no one is a judge/eveyone can judge
      3. Interdisciplinary
         1. Right brain / Left brain
         2. Artist interpreting/reinterpreting the world around them
      4. Participation
         1. Comment
         2. Judge/Evaluate
         3. Dialogue
         4. Question
      5. Collaboration
         1. Work together (synchonously)
         2. Work together (asynchronously)
   4. Activities
      1. Mystey Box Swap
      2. Trash 4 Teachers
      3. Collaborative Pinterest Boards
      4. Learning to Love You More
   5. Assessments
      1. Musical Chairs
      2. Interview the Work
         1. Create a podcast
      3. Process/Formative assessment
      4. Artist Statement- Social Media Publicity
5. Artists
   1. See how individual artists overlap and explore various trends & methods
   2. Tagged