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Yonker, Kim – Arts & Activities, 2009
The author has always loved teaching a lesson on self-portraits to her eighth-grade students. Portraits raise the bar and, when they are successful, convince the students that they really can draw. Each year they explore the basic concepts of portraiture, but use different media, sizes and styles. The author likes to interject art history and…
Descriptors: Art History, Portraiture, Artists, Creative Development
Vance, Shelly – Arts & Activities, 2010
Creating an appreciation of art history in her junior-high students has always been one of the author's greatest challenges as an art teacher. In this article, the author describes how her eighth-grade students re-created a famous work of art--piece by piece, like a puzzle or a stained-glass window--out of construction paper. (Contains 1 resource.)
Descriptors: Art History, Studio Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
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Benter, Doris J. – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
At Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York, ninth graders in their upper school study art history for one semester. The visual arts department has created a vigorous new syllabus culminating in an hour-long mock art auction. The department selects several art movements (e.g., Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Social Realism,…
Descriptors: Art History, Art Education, Group Activities, Student Projects
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Gebstaedt, Kate – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
"Appreciation" of the arts grows most abundantly when students immerse themselves in the making of art. In this article, the author describes how she made eighth graders appreciate some of the big names from the art of the past.
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Studio Art, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Patton, Ryan Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Having computer skills, let alone access to a personal computer, has become a necessary component of contemporary Western society and many parts of the world. Digital media literacy involves youth being able to view, participate in, and make creative works with technologies in personal and meaningful ways. Games, defined in this study as…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art History, Social Systems, Play
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Bader, Miriam – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2007
In his book "A Whole New Mind," Daniel Pink describes the aptitude of Symphony as the ability to synthesize, or to put pieces together. Symphony is the capacity to see relationships, detect broad patterns, and to create by combining diverse elements together. The artist Wassily Kandinsky exemplifies Symphonic thinking. A pioneer in nonobjective…
Descriptors: Artists, Profiles, Art Expression, Music
Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education
Barton, Sara – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2007
Most students in America can graduate from high school without ever analyzing a piece of art. Perhaps these students will take an art history or an art appreciation course in college that may incorporate a few references to literature and history. Math or science connections will most likely remain entirely absent. Why do we treat art analysis…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Art History, Art Appreciation, Art Education
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School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
In the lesson described, the middle school students had been studying the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and the history of her work. Students enhanced their flower portraits by adding a matching border and connecting the lesson to other subject areas. Students dissected a flower and drew a small diagram of the flower and labeled the parts. This is an…
Descriptors: Artists, Art History, Art Education, Painting (Visual Arts)
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Zwirn, Susan Goetz – Art Education, 2004
An important revival in art education seeks to provide adolescents with art projects that are culturally and politically relevant to their lives. Stimulated in part by both a postmodernist attitude and the attention to visual culture, such projects address content that is meaningful to students' families, their futures, and their society. These…
Descriptors: Artists, Art History, Painting (Visual Arts), Photography
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