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McDermott, Cathy – Arts & Activities, 2011
In this article, the author describes "The Shoescape Project." Each student begins by making a line drawing of their shoe, paying attention to every detail and the correct proportions. After the drawing of the shoe is complete, each student must create a landscape or environment for the shoe. This project is terrific on several different levels.…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Realism
Gillespie, Jethro – Art Education, 2014
This article describes how High School Visual Arts Teacher Jethro Gillespie built a portable art gallery for his students--essentially an 8-foot cube made from plywood and lightweight boards that can be assembled with bolts and taken apart in sections. The ceiling pieces of the gallery have track lights, the interior walls have been painted gray,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Art Education, Art Activities
Cunningham, Kathy – Arts & Activities, 2012
The author's school is only 30 minutes from New York City, so every year when second-graders study towns and cities, the students do a project based on New York City landmarks. This year was the Statue of Liberty. The author introduced Peter Max's famous Pop art to her students, and explained that, as the art world kept changing, artists decided…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Artists, Art Expression
Crumpecker, Cheryl – Arts & Activities, 2012
The Day of the Dead project is absolutely one of the author's favorite lessons. It's easy enough for almost any grade level--the author does it with her second-graders--yet can be detailed enough to keep eighth-graders interested. It uses a limited number of easy-to-acquire supplies, which is great for tight budgets. It can also be easily broken…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Holidays, Latin American Culture
Masse, Don – Arts & Activities, 2012
The author discovered artist Eleanor McCain's work on "Dear Ada," an art blog he follows. McCain makes brightly colored art quilts using various rectangles and squares. She creates visual "pop" by using these shapes in a variety of sizes and bright colors. There is an interesting spatial "push and pull" that happens when looking at her quilts.…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Artists, Art Products
Lambert, Phyllis Gilchrist – Arts & Activities, 2012
Autumn is a colorful season--with the brilliant yellows, oranges and reds against the evergreen trees. It makes sense to incorporate the beauty of season into art projects, and it provides an opportunity to integrate natural science into the lesson as well. Literacy was also incorporated into the lesson, as the author introduced this printing…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Integrated Curriculum, Elementary School Science
Crawley, Linda – Arts & Activities, 2012
After creating fish-themed art works for the school's Evening of the Arts, the school moved onshore. In Florida, a tropical climate and casual dress is the norm, so students are familiar with Hawaiian "Aloha" shirts. To begin the lesson, the author displayed several Aloha shirts across the front of the art room. She then gives a quick…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Visual Arts
Morris, Katie – Arts & Activities, 2012
Teaching the author's fifth-grade students a lesson on clothing design was a great way to show them how art and design are part of their everyday lives. It also allowed the students to express their personalities. Clotheslines served as an effective basis for their work. She and her class began by discussing how clothes can tell them about a…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Clothing, Painting (Visual Arts)
Purcell, John – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
In this article, the author describes how his first-grade students made their own compositions based on James Rosenquist's collage series in which long shards of faces were painted over a background that appeared to be abstract. The background was made up of enlarged details of things such as flowers, leaves, fire, and water. The students'…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Bentley, Dana Frantz – Childhood Education, 2012
When her director first asked her to teach an art class in the infant room, the author must admit that she thought her director was crazy. She nodded and smiled, pretending confidence, all the while thinking, "Teach art to infants? What does that even mean?" But when a teacher is trying to get a job at one of the best early childhood…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Infants, Art, Art Education
Grube, Vicky – Art Education, 2012
In this article, the author describes ethical encounters in Room 13, a schoolroom where children made what they wanted, posed their own questions, and ran an art room like a small business. In Room 13 children had the responsibility to maintain all aspects of the art studio. Specific decisions fell to an annually elected management team, a small…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Ethics, Elementary School Students, Child Responsibility
Moll, Emily – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
The topic of Egypt is one that students are naturally intrigued and enthusiastic about. In this article, fifth graders create mosaic and mixed-media collaged chairs in their visual arts class as part of their overall study of the art and culture of ancient Egypt. The idea was to embellish a contemporary chair with Egyptian colors, themes, and…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, African Culture, Art Products
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2012
Many painters use lines to express powerful emotions. Both Vincent van Gogh and Jean-Michel Basquiat had difficult lives filled with hardship, and died at a young age. They both used art to deal with their emotions. It seems like the stronger the feelings were in them, the faster the strokes were put down in their work. In this article,…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Middle School Students, Psychological Patterns
Osterer, Irv – Arts & Activities, 2012
High-school students are a dominant force in the gaming industry, accounting for annual sales in the millions. Retailers devote large areas of commercial space to keep pace with this lucrative part of the entertainment business. Recognizing the popularity of this phenomenon with the younger generation, it proved an ideal vehicle to explore…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Video Games, High School Students
Wayne, Dale – Arts & Activities, 2012
Louise Nevelson, who is called the "architect of shadow," was a "dumpster diver" of her time, collecting found objects in the wee hours of the morning before trash pickup. Recognition evaded Nevelson until she created "Mood Garden + One" (1958), when she was almost 60 years old. In this article, students create their own assemblage using…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Artists, Sculpture