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Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12
ART HISTORY |
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Based on the sculpture of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, students create a 3-dimensional figure study in fiber. |
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Give students an opportunity to enjoy creating random organic forms with color and transparency similar to actual glass. |
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Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme. |
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Ancient Egyptians applied gold leaf onto carved wood panels to tell stories and create opulence and on everyday objects. Follow the process these artists used to carve and gild a fan fit for King Tutankhamen. |
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Students will understand how geometry principles including diameter, radius, and symmetry work together to make an artistic design. |
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This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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Through the study of Impressionist painters and their works students will select their own color palette and design an impressionistic scene reminiscent of those painted in the mid 1800s. |
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A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book. |
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In order to understand Minimal Art, students must recognize what is absent. These painted chipboard constructions are abstract with a minimum amount of color, value, shape and texture. |
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"Secco" is the term used for applying color to dry plaster, the manner Da Vinci used in his famed "The Last Supper." Using Plaster of Paris, students create drawings then purposefully add stress fractures. |
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Introduce students to Pop-Art while creating fun, colorful ties. |
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This Lichtenstein-inspired lesson looks at pop culture imagery today and describes it in comic book-style prints using slow-drying waterbased Akua Kolor inks. |
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Students will observe and mimic the short, unblended brushstrokes used by Van Gogh and understand their expressive quality. |
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BOOK AND PAPERMAKING |
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Expand students knowledge of materials and spatial relationships with this unique project. |
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Using The Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content, students create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions. |
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Students learn an easy and economical form of metal working. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results Ñ without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students recognize that a handmade book is a work of art in itself. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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COLLAGE |
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Students create a dimensional "line drawing" out of flexible wire then cover it with assorted papers and tissues for a whimsical, lightweight sculpture. |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching. |
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Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art. |
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Students use all the elements and principles of design. |
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Students learn to make small, decorated boxes called "Nichos," a means in Mexican and South American cultures to provide a stage-like setting for an object or collection of objects that have great significance. |
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Using the example of a suspension bridge, students plan and create a sculpture focused on balance, stability and strength. Foamboard with colorful wire provides a blending of aesthetics and function. |
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Students use corrugated cardboard to create art with this project. In the process, they learn about using nonconventional materials in art. |
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Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme. |
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Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl. |
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Students design and make a finished product that involves breaking up their 2D design and adjusting it into a relief. |
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Using The Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content, students create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions. |
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Many cultures create puppets for entertainment and story telling. These jointed "jive" puppets make a light, musical sound as they dance and move on a hand-held rod. |
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This process takes any computer image and turns it into a 3-dimensional sculpture. |
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Incorporating New Media with traditional art, this process challenges students to use digital images to create a mask or 3-dimensional portrait. |
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects. |
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This project memorializes heroes and ancestors in fabric. The disciplines of music and dance combine with the visual arts to produce plays and theatrical presentations of the spirit. |
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Maki-e translates "sprinkle pictures" – the beautiful art of Japanese lacquerware. To achieve a similar look, cut and glue painted papers to a surface and sprinkle with metallic powdered pigments. |
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Alphabet samplers were popular during the 19th century and were embroidered on linen or canvas. This lesson plan celebrates the unique qualities of paper available for artists with a version of the sampler made with paper and art techniques. |
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Introduce students to Pop-Art while creating fun, colorful ties. |
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When gold became too expensive and impractical, Mexican folk artists invented a technique to create gold-colored patterns on a dark wooden surface. Sometimes referred to as "Poor ManÕs Gilding", this straw appliquŽ process is an easy and inexpensive classroom project. |
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Preserving
Flowers and Recycle garden trimmings by preserving them in acrylic and creating artwork collages with acrylic mediums and paint. |
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Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results. |
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Using a single large screen divided into multiple small square window panes, a class of 15-20 students create their own individual art project that becomes part of the whole. |
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Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Students will use collage as an impressionistic painting medium. |
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Watercolor Principles of Design This multi-media project links the disciplines of painting and sculpture as students form dimensional paper constructions and paint them with metallic watercolors. |
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Construct a metal wire and mesh relief sculpture. This is a "prickly" process but worth the effort! |
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CRAFTS |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Learn the processes involved in traditional batik and in color layering with dye. |
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Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art. |
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Create a changeable block puzzle based upon a vintage game. The result is fun and function, a brain teaser. Critical thinking and math skills must be applied. |
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Students use all the elements and principles of design. |
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Expand students knowledge of materials and spatial relationships with this unique project. |
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These paintings move older students to a different level in two dimensional expression. Students paint with water-based paint on ceramic. They are fired in a home oven to achieve beautiful results. |
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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
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Students transform a thick slab of clay into a 3D plaque. |
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Easy, Breezy "Screen Printing" Screenprints (also called "serigraphs") are greatly simplified with Scratch-A-Print and water-based paint. Multiple prints can be made on mini-size canvas, then made into ornaments, pendants, gift tags, etc. |
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This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame. |
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Chinese Cloisonne involves a 5-step process of 1) creating and preparing a base 2) soldering copper filligree to it 3) filling with enamel 4) firing 5) finishing. This simplified method follows the same steps, only with safer, easier materials for the classroom. |
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Certain people influence our lives in such a way that they leave "fingerprints" behind. These simple beads make great friendship bracelets. |
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Students design and make a finished product that involves breaking up their 2D design and adjusting it into a relief. |
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Gouche and Wood-Burned Designs Discover wood burning craft techniques and the traditional paint medium of gouache. |
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Students learn an easy and economical form of metal working. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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Through the study of Impressionist painters and their works students will select their own color palette and design an impressionistic scene reminiscent of those painted in the mid 1800s. |
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"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use. |
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Many cultures create puppets for entertainment and story telling. These jointed "jive" puppets make a light, musical sound as they dance and move on a hand-held rod. |
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This lesson plan recognizes the correlation between the two art forms as students create a band T-shirt using visual descriptions of particular music styles. |
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Students learn the basics of silk screening. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results Ñ without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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A single, simple origami pattern is used to make multiple buildings. Students study perspective and structure of a village. |
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Students recognize that a handmade book is a work of art in itself. |
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Students will define a purpose for creating a functional work of art and identify its effectiveness and unique characteristics within a certain cultural and social setting. |
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When gold became too expensive and impractical, Mexican folk artists invented a technique to create gold-colored patterns on a dark wooden surface. Sometimes referred to as "Poor ManÕs Gilding", this straw appliquŽ process is an easy and inexpensive classroom project. |
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Preserving
Flowers and Recycle garden trimmings by preserving them in acrylic and creating artwork collages with acrylic mediums and paint. |
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Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results. |
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Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture. |
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These plastic bottle pots are very handsome and perfectly shaped for decorating. Looking at them it is impossible to tell they are not made of clay. |
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Shoes are used to exemplify a very unconventional medium as a classroom exercise in oil painting, and can also be traced in historical terms. |
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Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past. |
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This outrageously fun guitar design can be created in 1½ to 2 hours from start to the end of the dyeing process. |
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The ancient Japanese tradition of textile painting known as Shibori entails many techniques and processes including the gathering, wrapping and binding methods that we call "tie-dye" today. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Build a three-dimensional form with Twisteez Wire on a stationary screen base. |
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Students learn about proportions, conveying emotion, and the watercolor medium in this project. |
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A great project! Fun, quick, and inexpensive. |
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DRAWING |
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Students trace the contour of everyday classroom objects, overlapping them to form new shapes within the outlines. This exercise strengthens students' skills in using positive and negative space and creating abstract designs based on shapes. |
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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
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This lesson plan uses interactive floating layers and windows to create depth within the artwork. |
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This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame. |
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Choose three shapes from a design and build a new composition by repeating and combining these shapes to communicate an idea or story. |
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Students will easily connect with historical studies of their own community or family history. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students will define a purpose for creating a functional work of art and identify its effectiveness and unique characteristics within a certain cultural and social setting. |
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Alphabet samplers were popular during the 19th century and were embroidered on linen or canvas. This lesson plan celebrates the unique qualities of paper available for artists with a version of the sampler made with paper and art techniques. |
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"Secco" is the term used for applying color to dry plaster, the manner Da Vinci used in his famed "The Last Supper." Using Plaster of Paris, students create drawings then purposefully add stress fractures. |
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Students create computer mosaic drawings with magazine illustrations, or photos emphasizing changing shades and tones using the total image or a section of it. |
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Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture. |
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This project is about drawing a realistic representation in order to practice your observation skills. |
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FIBER ART |
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Simple beginners' project using 5 colors of paint and 2 types of stencils: positive and negative. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Learn the processes involved in traditional batik and in color layering with dye. |
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Based on the sculpture of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, students create a 3-dimensional figure study in fiber. |
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Students transform a thick slab of clay into a 3D plaque. |
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This lesson plan recognizes the correlation between the two art forms as students create a band T-shirt using visual descriptions of particular music styles. |
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Students learn the basics of silk screening. |
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This project memorializes heroes and ancestors in fabric. The disciplines of music and dance combine with the visual arts to produce plays and theatrical presentations of the spirit. |
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This outrageously fun guitar design can be created in 1½ to 2 hours from start to the end of the dyeing process. |
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The ancient Japanese tradition of textile painting known as Shibori entails many techniques and processes including the gathering, wrapping and binding methods that we call "tie-dye" today. |
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MULTICULTURAL |
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Studying the rich history of maskmaking in Africa is a perfect way for students to experience the relationship between the process of creating a piece of art, and appreciating the significance it carries. |
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Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art. |
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Students use all the elements and principles of design. |
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Students learn to make small, decorated boxes called "Nichos," a means in Mexican and South American cultures to provide a stage-like setting for an object or collection of objects that have great significance. |
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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
|
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Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme. |
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Ancient Egyptians applied gold leaf onto carved wood panels to tell stories and create opulence and on everyday objects. Follow the process these artists used to carve and gild a fan fit for King Tutankhamen. |
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Brightly colored paintings look like stained glass. |
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"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use. |
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