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Masks

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/tiepolo/

This site has information and mask-making activities related to the exhibition ‘The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time’ at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive Dec. 11, 1996 - Mar. 2, 1996.

An essay ‘Masks and Meanings in Tiepolo's Venice’ by the exhibition curator James Steward, provides comprehensive background information for the senior student, with links to images and notes that explore the role of masking in eighteenth-century Venice.

Classroom mask-making activities are also presented by Abby O'Leary as part of a teachers' workshop.

Activities include:

Making Rigid-Wrap Masks

Making Paper-Laminate Masks

Making Paper Masks

Links to further resources for teachers are provided, including two lessons on ArtsEdNet:, the Web site of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts:

"Masks: The Face Tells the Story"

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Aeia/cultur-lp.html

"Put Your Best Face Forward".

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Sampler/d-4.html

These lessons focus on the social, cultural and aesthetic uses of masks in various cultures, and include an activity in which students create their own
masks.

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