Lessons
Welcome to the art lesson page! Here you will find unique content designed for students in each grade level. We understand that it may be challenging during this time for students to acquire art supplies that they would have regular access to in the classroom. As such, the lessons that we will present will utilize materials they may be able to find around their homes or outside. We aim for students to have fun while exercising their creativity in these projects, We hope to show that art can be found in the most unlikely of places, and that all you have to do is look.
View this week's ARTIST HIGHLIGHT and DRAWING CHALLENGE below! To view previous weeks' artist highlight, visit the ART HISTORY page!
Please remember to submit your work!
Weekly Drawing Challenge
Each Wednesday students will receive a new drawing prompt. Students who complete the drawing prompt will have their work displayed online for all to admire. We can't wait to see your sketches!
Drawing Challenge 10
This week's drawing challenge is based on the word SUMMER. What are you most excited about for summer? What does your dream summer time look like?
This Week's Artist Highlight
Faith Ringgold
Born: October 8, 1930 (age 89 years), Harlem, New York, NY
Education: The City College of New York (1959)
Awards: Caldecott Medal
Faith Ringgold was born in New York City in 1930. While working as an art teacher in public schools, she began a series of paintings called American People, which portrayed the civil rights movement from a female perspective. In the 1970s, she created African-style masks, painted political posters and actively sought the racial integration of the New York art world. During the 1980s, she began a series of quilts that are among her best-known works, and she later embarked on a successful career as a children's book author and illustrator.
Ringgold had become a professor of art at the University of California at San Diego, where she taught until 2002. Displaying yet more talent, beginning in the 1990s, Ringgold embarked on a literary career, publishing the children’s book Tar Beach, which she adapted from her quilt of the same name in 1991. In 1995, she published her memoir, We Flew over the Bridge; she has now written and illustrated more than 15 other children’s books.
In recognition of her contributions as an artist and activist, Ringgold has received countless honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting and an NAACP Image Award. Her work continues to be exhibited in major museums around the world.
Learn more at Biography.com
