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Our inquiry-based approach helps students of all ages learn to use the artistic process — focusing on exploration, discovery, and skill building across a variety of art media.

Shaping Meaning: Beverly Fishman

Media Types: Collage, Design, Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12

In this lesson, you will explore the work of Beverly Fishman and analyze how she uses scale, composition, and color. Then, explore a similar process in your own work to investigate how these elements influence the viewer’s response.

Drawing a Memory: Brianna Rose Brooks

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5

In this lesson, you will make a collage inspired by a place that is important to you, using paper and other materials to represent its shapes, textures, and details. You will look closely at the artwork of Leroy Johnson for inspiration.

Expressing Emotions: Käthe Kollwitz

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

In this lesson, you will explore expressing and conveying emotions through facial expressions, drawing inspiration from the work of Käthe Kollwitz.

Landscape: Vision and Verse

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

In this lesson, you will make sketches of landscapes inspired by Chinese landscape paintings, photos, or personal memories.

Value Exploration

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12

In this lesson, students will experiment with creating value in a drawing.

Drawing an Object with Value

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12

In this lesson, students will use value to create volume in a drawing of a round object.

Henry Taylor: Heroes

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8

In this lesson, you will draw a portrait of someone you admire, using pose, setting, and details to show why they are important. You will find connections between your own process and the artwork of Henry Taylor.