Toyota Dream Car Art Contest - Dream Car with a Message

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 9 & 10 Visual Arts:

• Conceptualise and develop representations of themes, concepts or subject matter to experiment with their developing personal style, reflecting on the styles of artists, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM125)
• Manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and represent their own artistic intentions (ACAVAM126)
• Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127)
• Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention (ACAVAM128)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS5.1, VAS5.3, VAS5.4, VAS5.5, VAS5.6. 

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Literacy.

Relevant parts of Years 9 and 10 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view. They analyse connections between visual conventions, practices and viewpoints that represent their own and others’ ideas. Students manipulate materials, techniques and processes to develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter in their artworks.

Unit of work: Toyota Dream Car Contest.

Time required: 160+ mins – artwork could be completed as homework.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, guide groups through activities and through the creation of artworks. 

• Paper measuring no larger than 400mm x 550 mm (15.7-21.7in.) or A3 in size
• Scrap paper for drafting
• Drawing materials, including but not limited to: coloured pencils, pens/markers, crayons, paints, watercolour paints, etc
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Previous contest winners
• Artwork information
• Artwork examples:
• SOUP – Refused by Mandy Barker
• Rage, the Flower Thrower by Banksy
• Habitat Degradation: Ocean Acidification by Jill Pelto
• Guernica by Picasso
• The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell
• Law of the Journey by Ai Weiwei

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving

The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest usually commences late October to early November and concludes late to early March. Find up-to-date entry details, prizes and full terms and conditions here.