Students in the fourth grade conducted a native American study in the general classrooms. As part of a cross curricular effort to support their learning, students learned about the lifestyle of the native Americans and the various types of American Indian houses in North...

    Printmaking involves the creation of a master plate from which multiple images are made. The artist chooses a surface to be the plate. This could be linoleum, styrofoam, metal, cardboard, stone or any one of a number of materials. Then the artist prepares the printing plate by cutting,...

  Students critically analyzed and responded to the art of Abstract Expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock. Students watched a video of “Action Jackson” at work and reflected on his art- making processes. Students created abstract expressionist style paintings inspired...

  The Ojibwa (Chippewa) believe that night is full of both good and bad dreams. When a dream catcher is hung above the place where you sleep it moves freely in the night air and catches the dreams as they drift by. The good dreams, knowing their way, pass through the opening in the...

Students in the fourth grade conducted a native American study in the general classrooms. As part of a cross curricular effort to support their learning, students learned about the lifestyle of the native Americans and the various types of American Indian houses in North America. Students...

Students of the 4th and 5th grade studied SPACE in art. We specifically talked about POSITIVE and NEGATIVE space. Through our study, they concluded that POSITIVE space- space that is filled with something (color, design, shapes)  and often considered the space occupied by the main subjects...

Contour means “outline”, and presents outside edges of objects. A plain contour has a clean, connected line, no shading and emphasizes an open “shell” of the subject. Blind contour line means drawing the outline of the subject without looking at the paper. It helps...

Claude Monet was a French painter whose 1872 painting, “Impression Sunrise” (which depicted sunlight dancing and shimmering on water), gave the name to the entireImpressionist movement. The leading member of the Impressionists, Claude Monet captured the spontaneity of...