These resources were shared at a workshop for K-12 teachers at UMMA on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The theme of the workshop was teaching design principles to students in art and general education classes. The workshop was presented in conjunction with the exhibition Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters. 

Resources here include art making activities, design history articles, and folk tales based on images in the Japanese posters. 

Workshop Overview: 

Red Circle Exhibition Background and Tour: Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, and Susan Dine, Mellon Fellow

Cosmogonic Tattoos Exhibition Tour: Jim Cogswell, Professor at Stamps School of Art at University of Michigan

Designing Posters Lesson and Hands-on Art Making: Rebecca Cifaldi, Design Historian and Graphic Designer