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McCreight, Elena – Arts & Activities, 2010
Art teachers are constantly seeking innovative ideas, approaches and media to incorporate into fresh and inspiring lessons. In this article, the author describes how her class created relief or mosaic-like self-portraits by gluing or attaching multiples of any chosen objects or materials onto a surface.
Descriptors: Portraiture, Design Crafts, Art Products, Art Activities
Von Sossan, Joanne – Arts & Activities, 2010
Abstraction can be hard for older students to understand, and it usually involves simplifying or rearranging natural objects to meet the needs of the artist, whether it be for organization or expression. But, in reality, that is what young artists do when they draw from life. They do not have enough experience--and sometimes the patience--to see…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Bates, Janet – Arts & Activities, 2010
Sometimes, the inspiration for an art idea comes from the strangest and most unexpected places! The author wanted to provide students in grades 5-7 in a fine-arts module an opportunity to be creative in a unique and inexpensive way, while incorporating a three-dimensional element. Since she personally enjoys thumbing through "Architectural…
Descriptors: Architecture, Middle School Students, Studio Art, Grade 5
Leenhouts, Robin – Arts & Activities, 2010
This article describes a clay project for students studying Greece and Rome. It provides a wonderful way to learn slab construction techniques by making small clay column capitols. With this lesson, students learn architectural vocabulary and history, understand the importance of classical architectural forms and their influence on today's…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art History, Studio Art, Art Activities
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Erickson, Mary; Delahunt, Michael – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Most art teachers would agree that architecture is an important form of visual art, but they do not always include it in their curriculums. In this article, the authors share core ideas from "Architecture and Environment," a teaching resource that they developed out of a long-term interest in teaching architecture and their fascination with the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Studio Art, Grade 6, Structural Elements (Construction)
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Billington, Lisa – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Helping students learn how to interpret and analyze imagery is an important skill. With last year's historical election of the first African American president, it was an opportune time to explore where Americans are going as a nation and what kind of future they envision. Middle-school students are eager to give their opinions, but learning to…
Descriptors: Art Products, Freehand Drawing, Art Activities, Studio Art
Mosley, Clay R. – Arts & Activities, 2009
A shiny human figure turned into a car or a jet--what kid (or kid at heart) wouldn't enjoy these images? The author found that showing his students these shiny human sculptures by artist Ernest Trova (1927-2009) was a great place to start an exciting sculpture project with his fourth-grade students. In the 1960s, Ernest Trova created a painting of…
Descriptors: Artists, Sculpture, Art Activities, Grade 4
Ayala, Cindy – Arts & Activities, 2009
Thinking how inspired her middle-school students are by color, the author turned to a book about the life and art of Peter Max as inspiration for this lesson. Though Max's first recollection of creating art was coloring his family's steamer trunks with a crayon, he would later pick up a paintbrush to create bold and exciting designs. He went on to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Color, Artists, Art Activities
Stylianou, Xanthippi Cynthia – Arts & Activities, 2009
In this article, the author discusses the importance of the placement of action lines to show the direction of movement. The author shows some visuals of angels and discusses in details the texture of the wings, the hair and the clothing.
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Kindergarten, Freehand Drawing
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Gomez, Aurelia – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
Adinkra cloth is a stamped fabric that is made in Ghana, Africa. Symbolic motifs that represent proverbs are carved from calabashes, a type of gourd, and are dipped into a black dye made from the bark of the badie tree. Adinkra artists divide the fabric into squares and create patterns and repetitive designs using the inked stamps. When it is used…
Descriptors: African Culture, Design Crafts, Art Activities, Studio Art
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Lindsay, Marie Huseman – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
This article presents an elementary studio lesson that aims to nurture students' knowledge of peace with art-making activities that enable them to discover the dynamic events that can develop within its presence. Through this lesson, students learn that peace, like art, does not happen on its own, but it is created. This lesson helps students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Art Activities, Studio Art, Peace
Poldberg, Monique – Arts & Activities, 2011
Virginia Lee Burton was one of the first author-artists to fully integrate text with images on the printed page, captivating generations of children. She was the founder of the Folly Cove Designers, which is an artist collective known for block printed textiles and design, an artist and a writer, entwining the visual image and written word into a…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Art Products, Visual Arts
Sterling, Joan – Arts & Activities, 2010
Gustav Klimt was born in Vienna in 1862. At age 14, he received a scholarship to the Vienna Public Art School. After graduating, he painted realistic portraits and later began to paint landscapes. Klimt was best known for creating a style known as Art Nouveau, in answer to the Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century. Art Nouveau was a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts, Painting (Visual Arts)
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Billington, Lisa; Pavone, Mindy – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
The news is sometimes frightening, but reacting to a disaster in a positive way empowers students to make a difference. On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake occurred in Haiti. An estimated three million people were affected and an estimated 230,000 people died. In response to this tragic event, the author's eighth-grade class viewed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Studio Art, Art Activities
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Templeton, Kristine – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
This article describes how the author brings staff and students together through an art project that deals with caricatures. The author started with a lesson on caricature, and she made a PowerPoint presentation showcasing the work of Al Hirschfeld. Using photos of the staff, students created portraits and hung them in a main hallway after school.…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Portraiture, Student Projects, Studio Art
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