Positive Body Image

1. Positive Body Image Cassandra Richard Trudel, Sinthia Cousineau & Diane Roe

2. -Teenagers often face low-self-esteem regarding their image. • Peer pressure & the struggle to be popular are factors that affect their self-worth. • What influences a person’s self esteem?: • Puberty & development • Media Images • School environment Why is this theme important? self-esteem reflects a person's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

3. Body Image is the mental picture you have of your body. It includes attitudes and feelings about how you look & how you think other people see you. Define Body Image….

4. Body image is how you view your physical self — including whether you feel you are attractive and whether others like your looks. For many people, especially people in their early teens, body image can be closely linked to self-esteem. Body Image

5. Skinny Shaming

8. Anorexia • Bulimia • Depression • Substance Abuse Consequences of Poor Body Image

10. 50-88% of adolescent girls feel negatively about their body shape or size.1,2 • 49% of teenage girls say they know someone with an eating disorder. • Only 33% of girls say they are at the “right weight for their body”, while 58% want to loseweight. Just 9% want to gain weight. • • Females are much more likely than males to think their current size is too large (66% vs. 21%). Statistics

11. Over one-third of males think their current size is too small, while only 10% of women consider their size too small. • Strikingly, while only 30% of older adolescents surveyed consider their current size acceptable to them, 85% of females and 95% of males considered their current size socially acceptable for others. • 85% of young women worry “a lot” about how they look and twice as many males as females say they are satisfied with their appearance

12. Considering the statistics I have just shared about body image , can you name me a few things that we are doing as a society to promote positive body image ? Question

13. The graphic designer and illustrator has created a gallery of over 80 images, all based on body image and feminist issues. • Each illustration features an individual woman. • The message: To respect people, regardless of their personal choices, body types, and identities. We all deserve respect and equality." Body Positive Illustrations by Carol Rossetti

22. Street Artist Joshua Allen Harris -He uses the vents of New York’s city underground to bring life to regular plastic bags.-He uses only tape & garbage bags….and subway exhaust-Creates monsters & animals

23. Joshua Allen HarrisLocknest Monster

24. Joshua Allen Harris

25. Joshua Allen Harris

26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLjiAYXxkuA Joshua Allen HarrisInflatable Bag Monsters

27. -Uses recycled plastic bags to create textures sculptures which represent the human figure. Khalil Chishtee's Plastic Bag Sculptures http://beautifuldecay.com/2013/11/12/khalil-chishtees-plastic-bag-sculptures/

33. Using plastic bags that she found in the street, the Norwegian photographer employs lights and colored backgrounds to create the illusion of a landscape. VildeRolfsen’s Plastic Bag Landscape http://quietlunch.com/vilde-rolfsen-plastic-bag-landscapes/

34. Vilde Roldsen’s Plastic Bag Landscapes

36. What other forms of non conventional materials would you consider using to teach a lesson about positive body & self image? • How would you teach a lesson about positive body image? Question

37. Using plastic bags to represent a figure that embodies positivity, to represent the theme of positive body & self image Our Lesson: Inflated Plastic Bag Figure

38. Population: Adolescence • Thinking about positive body image & focus on the positive aspects of their person. • Teens are greatly affected by negative body image. Through this negative body image grows preconceived ideas and thoughts that are somewhat faulty and can in the long wrong create large problems such as eating disorder and low self-esteem. • By creating a lesson plan that focuses on the positive messages and ideas link to your body may help the student think of their body in a positive matter and in the long wrong help them. • Creating a sculptural kinetic art work. • Acollective art work the students will learn collaborative skills and will learn to communicate Rationale

39. Learning objectives: Student will learn about different artist who create sculpture with plastic bags. They will learn how to use visual language to express them self. The students will learn to cooperate together and work together towards a common final art work. Student talk about positive throughout the art marking and will learn positive ways to talk about themselves. Art-making objectives: The students will be learning how to creating a kinetic sculpture using air and plastic bags. They will learn how to create an organic sculptural shape out of plastic bags. They will learn to use visual language to represent positive body image. Finally they will be working together to create a common art work. Learning Objectives

40. Art appreciation objectives: The students will look at the sculpture talk about why they created the shape the way they did. They will have to let the sculpture float away in there air and talk about how the effemeral aspect of the art work is important. Social and community objectives: The students will be working together towards a common art work. The subject matter of body image is one that is important within teenagers and by creating such art work they will empower them selves and each other about the issue of negative body image.

41. Clear/white garbagebags • Sharpie markers (black permament marker or water base sharpie) • Rolls of clear packaging tape • Scissors • Sketchingpaper • Pencils • Blow-dryer • Computer Materials

42. Step 1 • Each student will be given a bag. • Sharpie markers will be spread out on the table for all the students to share. • The students will first draw the shape of the body part they chose on the bag, they have to make sure that the bag is folded.

43. They will draw the pattern or image of their choice using the sharpie markers. • The students will cut out the shape. Step 2

44. Step 3 • Once the student are satisfied with their piece, they can tape the inside together

45. The students should keep two open space on their piece. • The 2nd student being done will attach his piece to the 1st student’s piece. The 3rd student being done will attach his piece to the 2nd student’s piece. • Every student will proceed this way until everyone is done. Step 4

46. Step 5

47. Sinthia: The Head

48. Diane: The Arms

49. Cass: The Hair