A Yoruba-Inspired Door
Students will use the Yoruba Door Panels to inspire their own “door panel” that reflects elements important in their own lives.
Students will use the Yoruba Door Panels to inspire their own “door panel” that reflects elements important in their own lives.
In this “discovery lesson” students will use the Yoruba Door Panels to explore the visual arts concepts of symmetry, repetition, clarity of form and line, conceptual proportion, and high relief. Using some of these ideas, students may then create their own two-dimensional door panels to reflect what they value and their own aesthetic style.
Children will explore the role of the Senufo Drum as art and a means of communication by moving, dancing, and listening to different drums. Students will then decorate a line-drawing of their own African drum.
Students will identify colors and materials used in the Four-faced Hamat’sa Mask and explore the relationship between appearance, sound, and movement. Students will also choreograph a dance with simple movements.
Children will use Dan Namingha‘s Hopi Eagle Dancer to inspire them as they work with thick paints, exploring color combinations and creating paintings of their own that emphasize texture, shape, and color.
This lesson invites students to learn and apply formal methods of visual arts analysis to investigate and understand Dan Namingha’s Hopi Eagle Dancer. They will then experiment with paints in an effort to get a sense of how the artist used different tools and thicknesses of paints to achieve varying effects in the painting.
Students will use the Tlingit House Partition to help develop their powers of observation and explore the shapes and animals around them. They will explore shapes and the bear images in the Tlingit House Partition and then create their own work of art arranging shapes and pictures of animals they’ve cut out on their own.
Students will pull different activities written on pieces of paper out of a cup to help them explore the images in Kevin Red Star’s painting Knows Her Medicine Crow Indian. The activities include making sounds, simple braiding, painting, and more.
Students will practice being carvers by imagining what kind of materials and tools the artist used to create this carved wooden Leg, making a rough sketch of a simple design and carving the design on a bar of soap.
Children will explore the concept of holes and cylinders by first using their bodies and then exploring how to make holes with clay. Hubert Candelario‘s Jar will serve as their inspiration for the activities.
Students will list colors, shapes, and images they see in the Malagan figures. The teacher will then put the items on the list into a song (using a familiar tune) to help students remember all that they saw.
Children will explore the movement and texture of fabric and other materials through hands-on group and individual activities. They will then make an all-class fabric “sculpture” and share their creation with others through pictures.