TEACHING ARTIST SESSION CATEGORIES
Illustrations make great teachers, and that is true in this case. Students will draw referencing images of tropical fish, and create details with line designs and patterns. Then, they will use a watercolor resist technique to complete and enhance the piece. Multiple techniques, multiple chances for visual expression!
We may not often experience more than one very hot season in Acadiana, but we can depict them in art! This step-by-step drawing session will utilize simple techniques in order to teach students how to create a unique and personal masterpiece. Themes include: gumbo pot for fall, hot chocolate or king cake for winter, and sno-ball for spring! Pick your preference, and chat with the artist about options after booking.
Using watercolors to paint ocean scenery? It’s a match! This is the perfect opportunity to learn about seascapes. Classes will be painting a beautiful sunset, learning how to blend colors for the sky and the sea, and identifying parts of a landscape painting as they create with watercolors.
No one saw a flower the way artist Georgia O’Keeffe did. She looked closely, depicted flowers on a large scale, and over the course of seven decades, this modernist painter changed the art world. In this session, students will draw their own flowers, large and up-close. This project enables us to see all parts of the flower and emphasizes warm and cool colors.
Big, blue, and everywhere you look – that’s the story of Louisiana artist George Rodrigue and his iconic Blue Dog! Students in this session will learn about the artist, his canine legacy, and create masterpieces in the artist’s unique style.
History should never be boring, and in this session, an artist’s legacy keeps it lively. Students will learn about artist Vincent van Gogh, an artist who turned his feelings of being different into a revolutionary visual style, leaving subtle personal clues tucked inside his artwork. Students will discuss one of his famous pieces of artwork, and create their own masterpieces in the artist’s style.
It is NOT just about museums! We all know that art gets licensed and used in advertising campaigns. Romero Britto –whose art incorporates elements of Cubism, pop art, and graffiti– has produced some very popular examples of that non-museum art. He is well known for using bright colors, bold lines, and patterns that jump off the page. In this session, the students will not just create art in this distinctive style, but they will also discuss the way a piece of art can be transformed into other products such as t-shirts, mugs, bags, etc. Art meets advertising in this classroom!
We do not all get to be pet owners in real life, but through this session, we can become pet owners in the art world. This is also a class for emerging sculptors. Students will use air dry clay to create a mini-pet animal to display, and will learn how to roll out and cut pieces or body parts and attach to the main figure. It’s not just a classroom…it’s a zoo, a wildlife preserve, an animal rescue, and an artist’s workshop.
Ever hear students ask, “When are we ever going to use this?” This hands-on, arts-integrated workshop transforms the humble ruler from a classroom necessity into a powerful tool for architectural design. Students put measurement concepts into immediate action by drafting their own custom cityscapes, seamlessly blending precision math with creative visual art. Students will master real-world ruler skills, geometric precision, and spatial reasoning through architectural drafting, explore the impact of warm and cool color palettes to transform flat drawings into dynamic, expressive urban environments, and balance structural guidelines with creative choice as students engineer and style their own ideal city skylines. This session delivers an ideal balance of rigor and creative play. It directly reinforces STEM/math standards while giving students full artistic ownership of their work—leaving them with a striking portfolio piece and a clear answer to why math matters in the real world.
No one taught her, so she taught herself and made her art her own. In doing so, Louisiana artist Clementine Hunter developed a visually distinctive style and vividly depicted plantation life in the early 20th Century. In this session, students will learn more about Clementine’s world. How, they will learn, did she arrive at her ideas of plantation life and her vision for depicting people, animals, and everyday life on a plantation? Then, students will create a piece of art in Clementine’s style and pay homage to her work.