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Through this lesson plan students analyze a collage by African American Romare Bearden, investigate the impact of jazz on art, and create an original collage.

Explore Bearden's unique fusion of artistic traditions through archival footage of the artist at work, commentaries on his relationship to jazz musicians Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and discussion of his monumental mural-collage commission at Berkeley's city hall.

Sandy Schimmel uses unwanted materials, such as junk mail, to create impressionistic portraits