TEACHING ARTIST SESSION CATEGORIES
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.
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.
Short-Term Residency option:
Day 1: After learning a brief biography of the artist, students draw vases in the shape of their choosing, and backgrounds are painted onto paper bags.
Day 2: Students add stems and leaves with oil pastels to their vase. Then they paint their vases. We will create different values of color and paint the petals of our flowers.
Day 3: Students can decorate their vase using chinoiserie or another style. Then, they can add details and monogrammed signatures similar to the style of Hunter.
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.