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In this remote learning project, students will explore the design of Frank Stella’s Protractor series and create a flat pattern surface design.
In this lesson, students will learn about the Xoloitzcuintli sacred to the Aztec people and make their own animal comfort objects.
In this lesson students will engage in sensory play and make a cardboard sculpture inspired by Beth Lipman’s Bride.
In this lesson students practice gratitude and mindful meditation inspired by Auguste Rodin’s Cathedral.
In this lesson students will create their own light container using light and color and make connections with Yayoi Kusama’s Light of Life.
In this lesson students will decorate paper lanterns inspired by Frederick Carl Frieseke’s The Garden Parasol. Students will read and think about summer gardens and participate in a lantern walk.
In this lesson, students will observe how artists can creatively transform materials. Students will create their own artwork from recycled or repurposed materials.
In this lesson students will analyze a painting of a sunset by Claude Monet. They will make connections to their own experiences observing a sunset, and create their own artwork inspired by Monet’s composition and palette.
Students will analyze Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and The Cotton Bowl by Hank Willis Thomas within the context of the legacy of slavery and racism in the Jim Crow South. Students will build on their experience analyzing different points of view to create a poem in two voices.
Lesson by A+ Schools of NC
Students will use a visual thinking protocol to analyze San Lazaro (O Yo Soy La Ruta) by Jose Bedia and consider how he visually communicates layers of meaning in a work of art. Students will learn about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and illustrate one of its articles to convey its complex meaning.
