Spider artwork? Yes! Along with the fall season, spiders are a great theme to explore. Teach this lesson with Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins as a juxtaposition of female artists’ childhood dreams of becoming artists and how they each pursued their dreams. These two lessons – Kusama and Bourgeouis’, back-to-back can be taught in two 50-minute class …
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Should holiday crafts count as art? Celebrating traditions and holidays is fun, but should educational time be used to do so? I’ve felt that holiday projects can be done at home; art education is another level of teaching and shouldn’t be used for crafts. I recently read, “When art is relegated to creating stereotypical holiday …
How do help students look closer at artwork? Observing art is a skill that can be taught through practice. This lesson – Sound of Art – helps students focus on the sounds that lay in artwork and challenges them to recreate the sounds. Student creativity flourishes as they collaborate with others and find clues left …