Giacometti Figures: Kindergarten

Objective:

Make a Giacometti-like figure and personalize it.

Vocabulary: texture, sculpture

Historic Artists Used:  Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Contemporary Artists Used: Antony Gormley (born in 1950)

Medieval Monsters: Kindergarten

Objective:

2. Students will create a collaborative monster by first designing the assigned body part, and then putting the monster together with their groups.

Vocabulary: manuscript, collaborative

Historic Artists Used: Medieval manuscripts

Contemporary Artists Used:

Collaborative art examples: my work with a friend, Magda Sayeg and her volunteers

Pet Portraits: 1st Grade

Objective:

Students will make a pet portrait by drawing their pet in the center and creating a pattern border using either a warm or cool color scheme.

Vocabulary: pattern, color (warm vs. cool)

Historic Artists Used: Albert Durer (rabbit)- German 1471-1528, George Stubbs (horses)- English 1724 –1806, and Hans Hoffman (hedgehog)- German ~1530

Contemporary Artists Used: George Rodrigue (dog amongst others), Brian Christiansen (deer), and Bill Braun (bear)

Origami Crane: 3rd Grade

Objectives

Students will fold an origami crane by following step-by-step instructions, and then students will personalize the cranes.

Vocabulary: origami

Historic Artists Used: Japanese artists / origami history 

Contemporary Artists Used: Robert J. Lang, Sipho Mabona

Characters: 4th Grade

Objective: 

Students will create a scene with an animated character using foreground, middleground, and background.

Vocabulary: foreground, middle ground, background

Contemporary Artists Used: Disney, Nickelodeon 

Woven Bags: 5th Grade

Objective:

Students will create a functional bag out of yarn using a cardboard loom. 

Vocabulary: loom, warp, weft

Historic Artists Used: Native American woven bags

Contemporary Artists Used: Stephanie Hoppe