Theme: Who am I on the outside? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be exploring many forms of media and how they interact. They will learn about abstract art, José Manuel Merello - an abstract artist, and why artists use abstraction in their art. They will also be thinking about how they are perceived by strangers and interpret these perceptions into visual representations in abstract ways. Artist focus: José Manuel Merello
Theme: How do I feel? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be discussing how different messages can be conveyed through different art mediums, colors, and body language. They will learn how to transfer image outlines using tracing paper and how to blend out watercolors. Students will be creating full-body self portraits with visual auras around them using watercolor. Artist focus: Adrienne Rawr
Theme: Who am I on the Inside? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be creating visual representations of their inner thoughts and ideas through abstract acrylic painting on woodblocks. They will be painting the front faces of three wood blocks that they will stack. They will be discussing why artists use abstractism, and will be learning how to interpret abstract works. Artist focus: C. Dianne Zweig
Theme: Who would I like to be? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be creating a set of prints by carving into sheets of linoleum, rolling on ink, and pressing them to paper. Their prints will be symbolic of the careers that they would like to pursue. They will be learning about a woman named Taylyn, who is a contemporary artist that does small linocut prints regularly. They will also be thinking about the transfer process and turning a mirror image of a drawing into a print. Artist focus: Taylyn
Theme: Where is my happy place? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be creating paper landscape/interior collages by ripping up paper/magazines, and gluing pieces down. These collages will represent where the students have found comfort during the quarantine or would like to go as soon as the quarantine is lifted. They will be learning about Eryn Tehan, a contemporary impressionist painter. They will be attempting to create their scenes in this style. Artist focus: Eryn Tehan
Theme: What do I value? Grade level: 6th-8th grade Time/length of lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be creating symbolic forms from Sculpey (or other oven-bake clays). They will be exploring the aspects of their lives that they deem the most important and listing them, sketching imagery to symbolize these items, and making 3 dimensional representations of those symbols. Artist focus: Anastassia Zamaraeva
Theme: Community Grade level: 3rd grade Integrated subject: Social Studies Time/length of lesson: 1 hour Lesson Overview: The students will be learning about where Oxford, OH is in relation to the whole United States, the differences between urban, suburban, and rural in relation to their own community, and how to create their own postcards. Artist focus: Rob Decker - Photographer and Graphic Designer
Lesson Overview: This lesson discusses the Miami Tribe and their interactions with art and social studies. It touches on their complex past by discussing geography through maps. It moves on to a discussion about their reality of migration and cultural revitalization through language, education and visual art. A brief background of ribbonwork will be touched on by showing it as a contemporary visual art form practiced by the Myaamia people. This lesson was created in hopes that we can help to educate students on the Miami Tribe in a way that is relevant to them and their community. Connections and opportunities of interaction with Miami Tribe members here at Miami through the Myaamia Center assisted us in creating a fair and respectful representation of the Miami Tribe and their valuable story. The lesson attempts to tell a story through visual art and geography about a very important culture that is so close to home for the students, yet most likely not often taught about. The story of Myaamia culture is still being told and is nowhere close to being over, thanks to the revitalization of the current members.
Lesson Overview: This lesson is an extension of the first Myaamia lesson that includes examples of Miami Tribe ribbon work and how students can create a bookmark that replicates the image of patterns.
Theme: Color and Mood Grade level: 1st grade Integrated subject: Science Time/length of lesson: 30-40 minutes Lesson Overview: The students will be learning about the association of color with different moods. Since the students are learning about animal communication, I thought it was fitting to use chameleons as the focus of the lesson because they convey mood through color. The color that the artist chooses is the emotion the artist is trying to “communicate” to the viewer. Students will color in a chameleon using two different shades of the same color, or two different colors, which will be chosen based on the emotion(s) they picked for the project. Artist focus: Kelly McNeil - does mostly wildlife paintings