Kindergarten
Kindergarten
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This month, kindergarteners explored tempera painting with anything but a paintbrush, making intresting patterns, and the artwork of Frank Stella.
1st Grade
1st Grade
This month, 1st grade students explored tempera painting with anything but a paintbrush, making intresting patterns, and the artwork of Frank Stella.
2nd Grade - 5th Grade
2nd Grade - 5th Grade
Grades 2-5 explored gesture drawing through a hands-on modeling activity using pencils and charcoal. In each class, students took turns posing for one another, creating quick 10 second drawings. This fast paced exercise encouraged observation, confidence, and creativity while helping students understand the basics of figure drawing in a fun engaging way.
2nd Grade!
2nd Grade!
3rd Grade!
3rd Grade!
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Middle School
Middle School
( work in progress) Project 3: Memory Maps – Drawing in the Grid:
Objective:
Students will create a graph-paper-based abstract drawing rooted in a specific memory, object, or landscape, using repetition, symmetry, and intuition in the style of Louise Despont and Audrey Flack.
Process:
Intro Discussion: Show Despont’s meditative, symmetrical drawings. Discuss how she uses drawing as a way to map internal experience.
Memory Prompt: Ask students to “collect” a memory — something sensory and specific (e.g., "walking home after school in the fall", "grandma’s kitchen").
Planning: Students sketch symbols or shapes that remind them of the memory (abstract, not literal).
Drawing Practice: Students develop their own system of repeated patterns and symmetrical forms to “map” their memory.
Final Art: A detailed, abstract memory map that visualizes a personal experience through geometry and repetition.
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