Multicultural Montage

Your assignment is to create a montage poster that celebrates a particular culture either from your own heritage or one of interest.

 

What is Culture?

The ideas, beliefs, and living customs of a people.

Multiculturalism--A movement to broaden the range of cultures we study which is in contrast to the popular opinion that the great accomplishments come from males of European descent.

Multiculturalism urges people of every culture to assess the qualities of other cultures through their own eyes.

Requirements:

File Name: djones_culturemontage

File Size: w=10in x h=8in or w=8 x h=10  and Resolution: 72

1. Choose a culture: research and find the images that are related to a particular culture from a foreign country.

2. Use your selection tools to gather images and place them into a background related to your culture of choice.

3. Add Text and Layer Styles.

4. Balance your pictures.

5. Vary the size of your elements or images to help achieve that Balance.

6. Show Contrast between elements.

Links for research:

Art Around the World - list of links         
World Religions

Islamic Art - and Culture links page

World Art Treasures

Oriental Art - Art of Asia Links page 

People & Places

Folk Art.com


National Geographic Map Machine