TEACHING ARTIST SESSION CATEGORIES
Science + art = sun magic! Students in this session will engage in a hands-on exploration of sun-reactive dye and natural elements. Students will create striking solar compositions using foliage, fabric, and light-sensitive dye. Then the sun does its work, and silhouettes of leaves and flowers are permanently imprinted on cloth offering a memorable mix of art and science that connects students to the natural world.
Maybe Jean-Michel Basquiat never met a dinosaur, but he had a dinosaur-sized vision and new take on the world! This session invites students to explore emotion, symbolism, and color while learning about a groundbreaking artist who transformed the art world! Students will create expressive dinosaur artworks using oil pastels and watercolor.
Here’s an opportunity to practice following directions and being a creator! In this session, students will use Model Magic to sculpt a clay fish of their own design using hand building techniques. Students will learn what a relief sculpture is and how to follow sequential steps to achieve a satisfying piece of art as well as identifying the characteristics of a fish.
Short-Term Residency option:
Day 1: Students will explore hand building techniques such as making a ball, pancake, snake, coil, pinching, and pulling as they make their fish.
Day 2: Students will paint their final fish sculpture.
Day 3: Students will create a habitat for their fish!
You’ll be over the rainbow in this science meets art session. Students will talk about how rainbows are formed and have a lesson on primary and secondary colors. Then, students will create their own rainbows using oil pastels in a creative line or shape.
Short-Term Residency option:
Day 1: Students will mix colors to make rainbows in their line or shape of choice.
Day 2: Students will create patterns from shapes by collaging, using primary and/or secondary colors.
Day 3: Students will make windsocks out of their rainbow artwork, adding their patterned borders and colorful streamers.
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.