Studio Projects

Students at the Dallas Middle School come to the art room for two quarters, twice a cycle, for a 50 minute class period.


In the art room students will:


Create Art

Learn and try new artistic techniques

Know and speak with an Art vocabulary

(Art Production)


Ask questions and write about Art

(Aesthetics and Philosophy)


Describe Art

Judge Art

Talk about and Interpret Art

(Art Criticism)


Learn about Art and Artists

Appreciate Art made by different cultures

Appreciate Art of the past

(Art History)

Appreciate Art for the future!


6th Grade

Quarter One

Classroom Color wheel Assignment

Overlapping Expressive Creature Project

Critique of The Scream

Scream Project

Individual Assignment


7th Grade

Quarter One

Value Study

Surreal Art Reading

Surreal Hand Project

Watercolor Technique Study

Individual Assignment

8th Grade

Quarter One

Classroom Color wheel Assignment

Mandala Color wheel Project

Pablo Picasso Reading

Individual Assignment