Inside: A complete earthworks art lesson about The Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, including an earthworks definition and activity ideas. Earthworks Definition Earthworks, also known as land art or environmental art, is an art movement that involved artists using natural materials, such as soil or vegetation, to create an artwork in the place where the…
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The Very Best Gifts for Teenage Artists – Art Supplies for Teens
Inside: An art supplies for teens gift guide! Affordable, quality art supplies that will take your teen artist’s work to the next level! For your convenience, I have included Amazon affiliate links. Purchases made through these links help support Art Class Curator at no additional cost to you. Good Art Supplies for Teens: I focused…
How to Get Free Supplies for Your Classroom
Inside: Find out how to get free classroom art supplies so your students can discover the magic of art! Empty Classroom Cabinets I started teaching elementary art in a urban, South Dallas school back in 2008. Seeing my classroom for the first time was a shock! I had boxes upon boxes of faded construction paper scraps,…
Beyond Selfies: Unshuttering High School Photography Fundamentals
Inside: An examination of the teen-oriented social platform Getty Unshuttered and how its challenges can be used for high school photography lessons. This post is brought to you by WeAreTeachers and Getty Unshuttered. Our lives were inundated with images long before the internet or smartphones came along. We’re a visual species and we’ve been creating images…
Create a Flipbook Inspired by Early Photography
Inside: Enhance your middle and high school photography lessons with this interactive lesson on the history of photography, and then create flip books for kids in response to the innovations of Eadweard Muybridge. Last week, I told you all about Eadweard Muybridge Horse in Motion which led to the beginning of the first moving pictures…
Making Art with Kids: Chagall-Inspired Drawings
For blog inspiration, I just flipped through all my photos from my elementary art teaching days to find a lesson to write about. Usually I avoid this because it usually provokes some PTSD teaching dreams, but that’s a story for another day. 🙂 This lesson is inspired by one of my favorite artists, Marc Chagall….