This lesson allows students to improve on their understanding of what and where art is. After viewing the street art installations of the Invader tiles, students will discuss street art. Students will also share their opinions on this work before planning their own design for a mixed media tile. They will brainstorm with peers and use pencil to plan out their design, envisioning multiple approaches before committing to a design. This lesson will add to the student's experience utilizing multiple mediums in one art piece as they will adhere small materials into an air dry clay slab.

Using an air dry clay slab and a variety of small scale materials such as mosaic pieces and paper scraps, students will create a mixed media tile inspired by the street artist, Invader.

Students will use pencil in order to plan multiple designs on white paper. Then students will use mixed media within a mosaic process in order to produce their own tile design on an air dry clay slab.

Invader is a street artist who refers to themself as a UFA (an Unidentified Free Artist). They chose the name invader as a pseudonym and always appear behind a mask so that they can be present at their own exhibitions without any visitors knowing their true identity.

Since 1998, they have been developing a street art project titled Space Invaders. This project is about liberating Art from its usual alienators that museums or institutions can be. “But it is also about freeing the Space Invaders from their video games TV screens and to bring them in our physical world.”

VA:Cr1.1.6a Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.

VA:Cr2.1.6a Demonstrate an openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.

VA:Pr4.1.6a Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.

VA:Re8.1.6a Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

VA:Cn11.16a Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.