Inside: Introducing a free email course for art teachers that will help you beat the most common challenges to teaching art appreciation. Teaching art appreciation and showing works of art in the classroom is a challenge for most art teachers. Not enough time. When students come to art class expecting to ONLY make their own…
Art Appreciation Activities
Complete the Picture: An Easy Art Appreciation Game and Printable
Inside: Students use creativity in this art appreciation game for kids with a free art appreciation printable. Students are shown a small piece and draw the rest. Recently, I was looking at the Prado Museum website researching links for my year of art appreciation post. I found a little thumbnail sketch of the painting, and…
Top Art Teacher Blog Posts of 2018
Inside: Top art teacher blog posts of 2018 from Art Class Curator — the lesson plans readers loved most in 2018. Whether you felt like 2018 flew by or crawled to the finish line, the year is now coming to a close. It’s been an exciting year at Art Class Curator, and we’re looking forward…
Pass the Art! Curate a DIY Art Collection for Your Students from Textbooks
Inside: How to make your own affordable art cards and use them to spark critical thinking and thoughtful art classroom discussions. One of the questions I get asked most frequently is how to show works of art to a classroom full of students. I’ve suggested using projectors, textbooks, posters, and computers. But when I was preparing…
Reflecting Absence: September 11th Lesson Plans for Art Teachers
Inside: September 11th lesson plans for art teachers focused on the 9/11 Memorial. Plus, the many reasons why it is important to teach about the attack in art class. Your students have no memories of September 11, 2001. It is easy to discount the amount of time that has passed for an event that looms…
Yinka Shonibare’s The Swing: Culture and Identity in a Global Society
Inside: Comparing Yinka Shonibare The Swing (after Fragonard) with the original painting and exploring the commentary on race, class, and multiculturalism. The Swing is Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s best known work and is an icon of the Rococo style. It’s a painting that’s so familiar, it can be easy to pass it by without considering the details or…
