For a family-friendly Earth Day activity at the local art museum, students in a Museum Studies course planned a papermaking activity that incorporated eco-friendly recycled paper and native Georgia wildflower seeds to create seed paper and seed bombs that children of all ages could enjoy making and later planting at home. Learn about the process of making seed paper and seed bombs to share with your students, and take home your own samples that you've created!
Using contemporary works of art as starting points, learn how you and your students can visualize data using a variety of sculpture materials, including basket reed, yarn, paper and wire. Participants will create small assemblage sculptures using a variety of media after learning strategies for visualizing data in creative ways.
How can you implement PBIS in the art classroom? Let a puppet do it for you! I will explain how I use a puppet character to keep behavior on track, so we can spend more class time making art. The puppet captures students’ attention, encourages students to follow art room rules and procedures, and rewards students for demonstrating “star artist” behavior. This is truly PBIS in action!
As the world continuously evolves at a rapid pace, we’re asked to look at traditional mediums in new and innovative ways. How can we develop an exchange among these disciplines traditionally overlooked and/or over generalized within discourse to provide a deeper understanding of their relevance, flexibility, nuances, and intimacy in today’s commercialized, digital culture in tandem with younger audiences through practice. All will be revealed in a short talk detailing research that addresses these fundamental questions, followed by a workshop where participants create their very own print through a fusion of digital and traditional printmaking processes to produce various results!
Participants will create flat designs using Lego tiles and dots. We will experiment with layering and relief prints of our Lego designs. Possibilities include robots, pixel art, typography, collaborative prints, and more! Materials and affordable printmaking tips and management strategies will also be shared.
Participants will use the scientific method to determine an appropriate light source for cyanotype development if the sun is not readily available. Leave with a sample lesson, ways to start thinking about S.T.E.A.M, and ideas of how to encourage arts integration at your school!
Teachers will engage in 10 mini lessons of journal prompts that will align with various technical skills and media explorations in their units of study in the Drawing & Painting classroom. This prepares students to have full and dynamic portfolios, and uses mini lessons to help drive home the bigger technical lessons that the teacher's unit focuses on.