Students will use a contemporary inspiration to imagine and design currency of their own- from an imagined planet or country!

Students sketch, plan, then print their designs for an imagined currency in multiples using a foam etching printmaking process.

Students will be inspired by Calvin Marcus’s painting “No Need Here” (2019)- a painting of an alien from outer space flipping a quarter away because he has no use for our currency.

VA:Cr2.3.4a Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments

VA:Re8.1.4a Interpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

VA:Cn10.1.4a Create works of art that reflect community and cultural traditions

VA:Cn11.1.4a Through observation infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

VA:Re7.2.4a - Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.