Art teachers help their students work together and develop awareness and understanding of themselves and their communities through art. Through collaboration, students transform their artroom into a cupcake factory installation, use lighting techniques to create interpretive shadow scenes, invent and draw their own monsters with preservice teachers, and more.
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The lessons and articles in this issue will inspire you to take students outdoors and find joy in nature. Students learn about sound and tone and develop mixed-media wind chimes; draw landscapes that depict foreground, middle ground, and background; celebrate the changing seasons with year-round flora sketching in an outdoor “art garden,” and more.
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The lessons in this issue require time and persistence for students to develop essential skills and expand meaning and concepts. Young students build a temporary cellophane installation; a middle-school student documents his experience building a mixed-media body sculpture; high-school students re-imagine the large-scale works of contemporary artist Heather Hansen; and more.
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Start the beginning of the school year with fresh ideas and a spark of inspiration. In this issue, an elementary art teacher promotes kindness through a schoolwide art presentation; middle-school students participate in a humorous rite-of-passage pinch pot lesson; students interview one another and create abstract continuous-line portraits; and more.
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Our third annual summer issue explores concepts of adaptation and appropriation and students develop an understanding of the differences between the two. Young students interpret artworks by Barbara Kruger; high-school students experiment with ceramics and melted glass to create sculptures with personal significance; students create self-portraits inspired by the styles of famous artists; and more.
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Art teachers take a lighthearted, playful, and humorous approach to teaching. Students design original game board and checker pieces, sketch and sew their own imaginary creatures, role-play as art curators and create their own miniature art museums, and more.
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Students explore the art of construction and learn about deconstruction, both in terms of architecture and art criticism. Young students engineer Popsicle stick bridges in a STEAM based mixed-media lesson; elementary students construct engaging paper pop-up sculptures; students form acrostic poems that deconstruct famous works of art; and more.
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In these lessons, the addition of the arts to STEM is made more powerful because of the interdisciplinary and engaging nature of the arts. Students create mixed media habitats, develop mathematical paper constructions, build futuristic Steampunk insects from found materials, participate in a trial-and-error engineering challenge, digitally alter line drawings, and more.
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Art educators give their students more choices to find and express their individual voices through their art. Elementary students design community service announcements that communicate their unique points of view; high-school students combine collage and printmaking to narrate a story; middle-school students artistically envision empowering outcomes to negative situations; and more.
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Art teachers share the time, planning, research, and effort that go into creating a meaningful lesson for students. Elementary students develop engaging comic strip biographies; middle-school students create visual connections with mental imagery; high-school students combine observational drawing and surrealism; and more.
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