Arts Resources     7-12

Learning Activities


Video - Artist Anthony Howe creates large kinetic sculptures that move with the wind

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Check out the Unilearnal channel on Youtube to view profiles of Black entrepreneurs (B is for Black series) and 28 Moments of Black Canadian History (including topics like the origins of Caribana, Dub poetry, immigration policy, Jean Augustine, Oscar Peterson, Rap in Canada, the Jamaican Maroons, and Marie Joseph-Angelique.

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Amazing use of optics and reflections, Artist and Professor,

makes “Mechanical Mirrors out of Uncommon Objects”

that mimic the viewer's movements and form! 

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Really neat stuff with music and cymatics

Cymatics Sound Art ~ SCIENCE & Physics Meets Music! 

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Integrating  math and art ~ tessellations 

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Use Pixlr … Free photo editing and design software to create an Andy Warhol inspired portrait 

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Use this tutorial and Photoshop to create a low poly artwork using only polygons and triangles. Or work with drawing materials to  create a geometric artwork using only straight edges and geometric shapes. Examples _____________________________


Here is a snip it of just a few Post Secondary Programs which combine the arts with technology:  Digital Music Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University, Computers and Creative Arts at Queen's University, Technical Production for the Performing Arts at Sheridan College, Film and Media Production at Algonquin College