Watercolor Self "Portraits"

Watercolor Self "Portraits"

A two week non figurative self portrait watercolor workshop with teens at Kulture Klub Collaborative lead by Teaching Artist Jonathan Herrera.

Value as Form / Drawing

Value as Form / Drawing

This drawing project introduced Holy Angel's high school art students to the essentials of shading by looking deeper into form and value, and considering how they come together to create the illusion of a 3D object lead by Teaching Artist Hannah Brown.

Frog Puppets with Pre-K

Frog Puppets with Pre-K

Doodlebugs practiced their motor skills in this frog puppet project lead by teaching artist Hannah Brown and were introduced to the life cycle of frogs by Silverwood naturalists.  

Design, Painting Techniques, and Painting on a Canvas

Design, Painting Techniques, and Painting on a Canvas

A four week painting project where students from El Colegio High School learned learning painting techniques, sketching a composition for a canvas, and painting a canvas representing the student’s ideas and design lead by Teaching Artist Elisa Gomez.

Griding, Chuck Close and Math

Griding, Chuck Close and Math

An arts integration project  involving drawing and math at Barton Open School lead by Teaching Artist Kendra Powers.

Masks Inspired by Liberian Culture

Masks Inspired by Liberian Culture

In preparation for World Cultures Day, Jackson Elementary 1st grades students worked with Teaching Artist Brandie Zaspel to create masks inspired by Liberian culture. 

Introduction to Figure Drawing: Timed & Extended Poses

Introduction to Figure Drawing: Timed & Extended Poses

How will students accurately represent the figure, while implementing their own artistic hand? A live figure drawing experience for Blaine High School Arts Students lead by Teaching Artist Nathalie Pedracine.

Aladdin Collage Project

Aladdin Collage Project

Using scraps from the costume production of Out On A Limb Dance Studio’s production of Aladdin , the Jackson Preparatory Magnet students created a community collage inspired by Arabian Mosaics and the play they viewed lead by Teaching Artist Brandie Zaspel. 

Essential Abstraction

Essential Abstraction

How to Abstract and image? The Craig Highschool Advanced Art students engage in an abstraction project with Teaching Artist Hannah Northup.

Impasto Painting for the Young

Impasto Painting for the Young

Second grade student at Sejong Charter Scholo learned impasto painting technique as part of their arts curriculum in preparation for creating a stillife painting. Working from a still life of flowers students will draw and paint from observation with teaching artist Elisa Gomez. 

Humble Mealworm Field Guide - 2nd Grade

Humble Mealworm Field Guide - 2nd Grade

A Class Field Guide to the Humble Meal Worm.  An arts infused lesson focusing on meatamorphosis and the creative processin Kathy Schuette's 2nd Grade classroom in Minneapolis's Kenwood ElementarySchool with MCAD teaching artists Brandie Lee Evans and Claire Donaghue.

A New Moon

A New Moon

Imagine the Moon: An arts infused lesson focusing on language arts, science and imagination at Pinewood Elementary School in Monticello, MN in Monica Derby's 2nd grade classroom with MCAD Teaching Artist Kacey Medenwaldt.

Building Sets for an Animation

Building Sets for an Animation

Building and painting sets for animations at Children's Museum of Art in New York with MCAD Teaching Artist Kathryn Warren.

Emulsion Screenprinting at MIA

Emulsion Screenprinting at MIA

Screenprinting and painting on t-shirts for the May Day Parade at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts with Community Programming lead by MCAD Teaching Artist Vedashree Bankar.

Road Signs: An Early Introduction to Graphic Design

Graphic Design introduced to Urban Arts Kindergarten-2nd graders through the creation of road signs by MCAD Teaching Artist Practicum student Vedashree Bankar at Minneapolis Urban Arts Academy.

Neighborhood Pop-out Book

Neighborhood Pop-out Book

A Pop Out book structure taught at MCBA to the Global Arts 2nd grades by MCAD Teaching Artist Colleen McLaren.