GAEA Conference Fall 2024

Meet at the bottom of the ramp in the Atrium at the High

In this workshop, we will sit with some of the work in the High Museum galleries. The practice will improve your ability to use art as a form of meditation which will in turn improve your artwork. This practice is both relaxing and helps you identify to direction your artwork needs to take. **Supplies needed are minimal. Just a sketchbook, pencil, and open mind are all that is needed.**

We will be drawing an easy but realistic looking eye and a spider web-like pattern that will connect our inner and our outer world. By visually connecting these two elements, we aim to explore how they interact and influence each other in our daily lives. Understanding and being aware of both our inner and outer worlds can help us gain insights into our motivations for positive and negative choices and the overall reactions to our experience and thought patterns.

Get ready to trick your mind with this new way to teach about space, distance, and perspective! Reverse-Perspective is a contemporary art concept that was popularized by artist Patrick Hughes using one and two point perspective and sculpture as a way to trick the mind. In this workshop, I'll show how I teach the concept of one point perspective AND the optical illusion of reverse perspective to my elementary age students. Partcipants will walk away with not only two ways to teach this concept (one and two point perspective), but also their own reverse perspective sculpture! This lesson reaches out to our students in the most interesting way!

Calling all aspiring digital artists! Join us for a fun and informative workshop where you'll learn to create inspiring artwork like Jason Naylor, whose vibrant illustrations promote positivity. Using a Wacom One tablet and the free program Kleki, we'll explore the magic of digital drawing. This workshop will equip you with essential skills like layering, opening the door to exciting creative fields like graphic design. Get ready to transform your ideas into stunning visuals and explore how digital art can make a positive impact on the world! **Teachers will need to bring a computer/laptop.**

In this workshop, we will present a project progression that we use in 3rd - 5th grade art that focuses on the self portrait as way for students to explore identity, representation and personal story telling. Starting with a traditional approach to drawing the self portrait in third grade and progressing through a digital self-portrait in the style if Kehinde Wiley in fourth grade and ending with a digital manipulation in 5th that we call "Multiplicity". We will discuss the spiraled approach and why we feel that it helps to develop deeper learning and personal connection to these projects. This workshop will explore the use of digital media as an art making tool that can connect to traditional media in a practical way. Examples and lesson details will be provided. **Bring your ipad or digital device if you want to create along with us.**