The document describes various art workshops and projects taught to students of different grade levels. Some of the workshops and projects described include learning about archeology through gridding a site and analyzing finds, color theory using watercolors, creating Balinese shadow puppets, making stained glass artwork, creating quilt squares and letters about freeing captive whales for a social justice project, making an edible color wheel out of icing to learn about the color wheel, collaborating on chalk art, making mosaics, optical illusions, Adinkra symbols art from Ghana, set design, sun printing techniques from history of photography, paper making from its origins, creating a naturalist's notebook, sculpting in the style of Henry Moore, Carn

2. Art & Archeology
Middle School students learn the
process of archeology by
gridding a site, documenting and
drawing the finds “in situ” and
analyzing their discoveries.

3. Color Theory
Using liquid water color students learned
about color mixing, subtractive color,
and color theory principles.

4. Balinese Shadow Puppets
Working with barbeque skewers, paper, tape and
foam, students learned Storytelling, Mechanics of
Puppetry and cultural facts about Wayang Kulik
puppet traditions.

5. Stained Glass Workshop
Using acetate film and glass paints,
students learned about the
history of stained glass,
Chartres Cathedral
and stained glass storytelling,
likening them to early versions of the
Graphic novel.

6. Art and Social Justice
This project involved giving 5th
grade
students a selection of issues to choose
from. They then created an art piece
and wrote letters in support of the
issue they chose. The issue these
students selected was “Free Corky” a
campaign started by the Orca Lab to
free captive whales at Sea World.

7. The students created quilt squares which were sent to Orca Lab for inclusion in a huge
traveling quilt. They also composed and sent letters to the owners of Sea World. In this
activity the students learned about social justice issues, collaborating on a group project, and
formal letter writing.
“Free Corky” banner in Hamburg Germany
“Free Corky” quilt squares

8. The Spectrum in Icing
Young students (with the help of older sibs) learn about
the color wheel by mixing food coloring and icing to
create an edible color wheel.

9. Chalk Art
Middle school students
collaborate to create imaginative
street art.

10. Mosaic Art
The breaking, the pasting…

11. Optical Illusions
Students learned how to create arty visual tricks
and make their own 3D glasses

12. Adinkra paintings
African symbols known as Adinkra originate in Ghana. We stamped
canvas with Adinkra inspired symbols and added African motif animals.

13. Set Design: (Middle School) architecture, construction, aesthetics, story themes

14. Sun Printing
as part of a History of Photography unit
A workshop which reveals the early days of light
imaging, from Daguerre to Kodak, exploring the scientific developments, the
chemical processes, the successes and pitfalls, and the impact these
developments had on art, culture and our appreciation of history.

15. Paper Making
A selection of handmade papers by my middle school class.
Students discovered the origins of paper in Asia
and follow it's course through history to the present day,
culminating in a paper making workshop.

16. The Naturalist’s Notebook
This experiential arts workshop includes slides and informative materials
which introduce the students to the contributions that early scientist/artists
have made to our understanding of natural history, and their impact
on the development of European and American expansion into new territories.
Each student creates a sketchbook of visual observations of nature.

17. Sculpting in the Style of Henry Moore
Students design organic sculptural shapes using foam and plaster.

18. Carnivale Masks
Established during the Renaissance, the festival of Carnivale in Italy
celebrates a time of carefree fun prior to a period of fasting and
atonement. Using papier mache, paint, glitter and cardboard, students
create personal masks in the style of Carnivale.

19. More Carnivale Masks

20. Molas
Molas are colorful, patterned garments created by the Kuna people of
Panama, usually created in very bright colors on contrasting backgrounds.
The students created their Mola designs with oil pastels on colored papers.

21. Scratchboard techniques

22. Japanese calligraphy
With simplicity in mind, students wrote their names in Japanese symbols
using bamboo brushes and inks on rice paper scrolls, with simple
gestural drawings.

24. Korean kites
The Korean fighter kite, called bang-pae-yeon, is constructed of paper, at
a ratio of 2x3. Held together with flexible wood spars and string, the
kites are very agile in the air which makes them perfect for competition.

25. Calder Style Mobiles
Understanding the art & science of
balancing mobiles.

26. Embossing

27. In this workshop the students learn about the Expressionist movement,
famous Expressionist painters, and how to "express" their own ideas and feelings
in art media. The basic characteristics of expressionism are: bold colors,
distorted forms, two-dimensional, without perspective, and
based on feelings rather than analytical thought.
Expressionism

28. Mural Painting
Mentoring local high school students
to paint and restore a community mural.

29. All of the workshops in this slideshow were
conceived and implemented by me. The artworks
were all made by my students.
I develop and teach arts workshops for youth and adults.
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