Dancing with Coyote
Students will use Harry Fonseca’s painting Shuffle Off to Buffalo to spur their imaginations as they dance and dress up in costumes.
Students will use Harry Fonseca’s painting Shuffle Off to Buffalo to spur their imaginations as they dance and dress up in costumes.
Students will discover that objects can be used in several different ways and will brainstorm new uses for objects that might otherwise have been discarded. Students will work together collaboratively as an “art director” to create a work of art using found materials.
Students will imagine what it would be like to be in a trade canoe. Students will also hypothesize how the artist created a dripping appearance on her painting and will employ this same technique to create their own works of art.
The children will use their imaginations to interact with and discover elements of the Orator’s Stool. They will also have an opportunity to experiment with materials similar to those used to decorate the face on the stool.
Students will use colored vanilla pudding to get a hands-on understanding of how Moyo Ogundipe layers and etches paint.
Children will use their bodies and faces to express feelings and states of mind in order to prepare them to look at and talk about how Roxanne Swentzell’s sculpture The Things I Have To Do To Maintain Myself shows emotion and focus. They will then talk about things they do to take care of themselves and ”mend” two pieces of fabric by sewing them together with yarn.
Students will explore the mysterious atmosphere and foggy shapes found in Monet’s painting Waterloo Bridge. They will sing “London Bridge is Falling Down” as a class and use shape stamps to create a painting of a bridge.
Students will explore Three Young Girls to enhance their powers of observation and inspire an exploration of the number three.
Students will pretend they are insects or frogs, jumping from lily pad to lily pad as they explore the world in Monet’s painting.
After exploring different images and characters in the parades depicted in The Triumphs, children will make masks and have a parade of their own!
Students will explore what it might have felt like for the people in The Radcliffe Family to pose for their sittings. They will then have fun posing stuffed animals and dolls for their own portrait compositions.
After singing fun songs about fish, students will explore William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish, noting the shiny quality of the scales and the pot. They will also listen to the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and make a fish artwork using collaged metallic paper.