A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.
Being a Weather Reporter. In this lesson teaching artist Dan Ploof guides students through the visualization of the weather report as they set up background for their weather reporting videos.
A introduction to public art in Chicago and more by Zoja Chmielarczyk in preparation for high school student murals with teaching artist Dorian Sylvain.
An introduction to murals in Chicago and more by Zoja Chmielarcyk in preparation for a mural project with artist Dorian Sylvain.
Kindergarteners use clay to invent planets using their knowledge and experience on Earth.
An introduction to slip casting for the highschool ceramics student.
An introduction to hand lettering and calligraphy with a focus on historical documents.
Comic Journaling using text and image to represent a day in the life through character design and storytelling.
A large scale community paper making project investigating papermaking in industrial and traditional settings.
An entry to comics project that introduces narrative, cubism and geometry for first graders.
This lesson covers the basics of using Adobe Photoshop to digitally edit and publish and document traditional analog artwork.
An observational drawing exercise investigating interior / exterior relationship through multiple drawings of bell pepper as students cut sections.
An collaborative stop motion group animation project enacting the water cycle.
This Honors Art project focuses on a graphite drawing exercise that engages students in distinguishing between dark, light, and mid-tones through hatching on tracing paper and collaging portions of the hatched tracing paper values onto a self portrait to create contrast and from.
Relief printing and journal making for the Kindergartener. This project engages children in pre-math concepts through active pattern creation and sequential book making techniques
This project offers young students the opportunity to envision a chair or piece of furniture as designers through a hands-on interactive model making process and invent a fictional story about it.
Using Chrome books and free application students take photos of themselves to create their own Gif expressing an emotion.
Students individually create a tessellation pattern which are combined into a group project and printed onto a light fabric as an introduction to production design.
A collaborative thematic comic project where students work in small groups of two to four students from a single word or idea prompt. This project was taught at both Southwest High School with Art Teacher Cecily Spano's Advanced Art class and Perpich Arts High School with Art Teacher Pat Benincasa's Drawing and Painting class by Teaching Artist Marina Harkness.
An environment fairytale written by Teaching Artist Nathalie Pedracine was animated by Kenwood 3rd graders in this arts infused language arts lesson.