Blackout poetry is one of my favorite ways to combine literature, visual art, and student choice into one meaningful project. I taught this lesson with my Art II high school students, but it is highly adaptable for other grade levels as well. With adjustments to materials, text complexity, and expectations, this project can work successfully with almost any age group. For this lesson, students created … Continue reading Blackout Poetry Artwork
If you’re gearing up for the new school year and already feeling the back-to-school dread, I hope this collection of engaging secondary art projects helps lighten your planning load. These ten classroom-tested art lessons have become reliable favorites with my high school students. I try to create fun, skill building projects that have students practice technique along with their personal voice. While I currently teach … Continue reading 10 Engaging Art Projects for Secondary Classrooms
Try out these Vik Muniz inspired chocolate syrup paintings to get your students’ creativity flowing with a quick and temporary art lesson. When my students are in a rut or needing inspiration, I like to throw chocolate syrup paintings their way. I have used this one day artwork as a midterm “exam” grade, a fun first day back from a long break or a getting … Continue reading Vik Muniz Inspired Chocolate Syrup Paintings
I love a good slab and tile lesson, and this clay facial feature slab lesson builds (or introduces!) so many hand-building skills. I currently teach this to my Sculpture II students, but it can totally be taught to students who have zero to very limited clay experience. It takes up very little space (and clay!) which is helpful if you have giant classes or limited … Continue reading Clay Facial Feature Slab Lesson
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This wire portrait sculpture lesson is easy, inexpensive and creates quirky and impressive results! I like to use it as an intro to a more in-depth figure sculpture lesson or as an additional artwork during a contour drawing lesson. This short video will give you a synopsis of the technique used to create wire portraits in the classroom. Full length Wire Portrait Sculpture Tutorial for … Continue reading Wire Portrait Sculpture
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