Textile Gardens
Each student will create a flower patterned quilt square in response to the floral patterns on the Pratt Family Album Quilt.
Each student will create a flower patterned quilt square in response to the floral patterns on the Pratt Family Album Quilt.
This lesson encourages students to focus on details and use their observations to answer hypothetical questions. They will do this by grouping objects in Sprick’s painting Release Your Plans into similar categories.
After learning the importance of positive and negative space, students will carve their own designs in a soft cut linoleum block. Taking inspiration from the Pratt Family Album Quilt, the students will share designs with each other and create their own prints and quilts that displays creativity, teamwork, and personal expression.
Children will examine the painting The Road to Santa Fe to see how many different animals, plants, people, colors, etc. they can find. They will then use their bodies to interact with the painting on a kinesthetic level. The lesson culminates with the children “corresponding” with the donkeys in the painting—learning more about where the donkeys live and sharing information about their own backyards, neighbors, homes, and families.
In this lesson children will investigate elements of Rodeo-Pickup Man and participate in activities related to the painting. They will explore sound, color, and their imaginations; and will make their own paintings to share with the class.
Students will learn the creative processes behind Kelly and Mouse's poster Skull and Roses/Grateful Dead, Oxford Circle, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco: inspiration from others in the present, creativity “jams,” and artwork found by “fishing in the past.” They will first complete a collective work of art to experience a collective creative process. Students will then use Kelley and Mouse’s strategies to work in groups to create their own posters.
Students will explore shapes and angles through body movement and hands-on manipulations within the context of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building.
Students will examine Bierstadt’s painting Wind River Country, identify what they see, and imagine what’s missing. They will then touch objects similar to those in the painting to connect visual and tactile experiences. An auditory and movement exercise follows, with students making sounds of objects in the painting and moving around like the objects while making their sounds.
After observing Donald Coen’s painting Yellow Rain Jacket, students will draw in missing parts of the horse on a printed copy of the painting. Students will also add parts of other animals to the original image to create imaginative animal hybrids.
Students will look at Donald Coen’s painting Yellow Rain Jacket and discuss the compositional technique he used. Students will then choose a photograph that interests them, crop intriguing sections, and paint the cropped image, emulating Coen’s process.
Students will explore Wes Wilson’s poster through movement and sound. They will use movement, sounds, and words to communicate what they see and how the poster makes them feel.
Students will discuss how Wes Wilson’s poster Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco reflects the time and place in which he created it and how this type of artistic expression continues to inform and influence a wide variety of visual media today. Students will also examine how the form differs from images prevalent today and design their own lettering style and posters to attract a specific audience of their choosing.