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Teaching art at the High School level has given me valuable insight to my own relationship with creativity and it's crucial role in students' cognitive development. The flow of my lesson planning is designed to meet Massachusetts Curriculum Framework standards, facilitate transferable skills across subjects, and act as a medium personal growth.
In the past few years after the Biology MCAS and the Advanced Placement Biology exam I transform my classes into Visual Arts Studios. Below are some sample lessons...
In the examples below, the students and I engage in a conversation about how art can influence someone's perception of their experiences. particularly if the symbols in the are are recognizable but configured in a new in mysterious way.
Here is the prompt...
Symbolism of Tarot
Visualize your final product. What colors and symbols will make up the subject, the background, and accessorize the story?
At its conclusion write an artist's statement explaining the symbols and their intended purpose.
Tips for your product...
An aura can create the illusion of floating
Contrasts can express conflict
Reversing or inverting symbols opposes their popular meaning
Adding a lot of detail to an object can add importance
Make it 3D with a small folded box behind the subject
In a simpler project, we examined Zentangle as a method of thinking about space. Initially we filled the paper with designs then calculated the percentage of space taken up by each of the designs. On the second day of this activity they use the exact same patterns but change the percentage of the page they took up to see what kind of influence that had on the viewer.
After we'd established some drawing basics we move on to more mixed media products. one of them focused on taking famous artwork and adding in modern elements to them. Below is an example of the famous Japanese wave. This was a teacher-led lesson where the students followed along with a painting I produced step by step...
One year with a particularly motivated group of invested artists we created all of the centerpieces for the tables at prom with these origami flowers.
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