Affiliated with the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network
Students will observe and discuss imagery in Basquiat work, write identity statements using sentence frames, and apply their learning through a drawing on paper.
Medium: Visual Arts
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Showing Modules for Williamette Valley and North Oregon Coast
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Color Magic with Will Paradis
Students will learn the different color making possibilities there are using only the primary colors and white. Students will learn how they can use color mixing to create ideas and stories for paintings.
Medium: Visual Arts
I Am Oregon with Crystal Meneses
Students will use observation of nature, self-expression, and empathy to create a poem or song and reflect on that process as part of a larger project that contributes to social change.
Medium: Music
Konbit Haitian Dance of Community with David Durosier
Students will develop the ability to coordinate dance movements with drum rhythms. Students will learn the value of collaboration, patience, and offering positive reinforcement to themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
La música y las Emociones (Music & Emotions) with Victor Villegas
In this lesson, students will learn some basic musical concepts, how music affects our emotions and how we can use music to self regulate. Students will also create their own rhythms and simple “songs” to express their emotions and share them with others.
Medium: Music
Line of Action with Jen Hernandez
Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to create artwork that has meaning. Students will understand and can explain how the meaning of an artwork is connected to individuals and communities. I can describe my creative process and its connection to my community.
Medium: Visual Arts
Line of Place with Jen Hernandez
Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to create artwork that communicates an idea. They will choose an idea to communicate that is unique to them or one that is collective and relates to a larger community. Students will create a composition by choosing between diverse options. They will choose safe ways to use materials and choose materials to make art that best communicate their ideas. Their work will be informed by the place they are from, which holds many stories, cultures and histories.
Medium: Visual Arts
Miró-Motions with Michele Haney
Students will observe and discuss meaning and mark making in Joan Miró's work and collaboratively create their own connections between emotions, lines and shapes. Then, students will individually create Miró inspired drawings.
Medium: Visual Arts
My Rhythm, My Story with Christiana Zollner
Students will learn how to use body percussion and chants to create short rhythmic patterns that express how they feel and who they are.
Medium: Music
Observational Illustration with Jen Hernandez
They will choose safe ways to use materials and choose materials to make art that best communicate their ideas. Their work will be informed by the place they are from, which holds many stories, cultures and histories.
Medium: Visual Arts
Playing To The Beat Of Your Own Drum… Together with Victor Villegas
Students will learn the basics of rhythm, create their own beat as a means of self expressing their own ideas and practice playing their beat with others to create a collaborative rhythmical composition as a group.
Medium: Music
Ritmos y Tempos con la Danza Azteca with Danza Azteca(Quetzalli Carlos and Jose Carlos)
Students will learn basic dance skills by following the rhythm and tempo of the Aztec drum. Students will learn the steps of Xochitlquetzal (precious flower) dance.
Medium: Dance
Shadows & Light-Shading with Andrea DiPalma Yansane
Students will learn techniques for observational drawing of simple, still-life objects. Students will be introduced to the value continuum/grayscale. Students will learn the techniques for simple shading.
Medium: Visual Arts
Sketchbook Building & Design with M. V. Moran
Students will learn how to make their own sketchbooks from everyday items. Students will learn foundational art concepts.
Medium: Visual Arts
Unpunctuated Scenes with Eric Braman
Students will engage in an improv game to practice collaboration through a listening, observation, and response exercise. They will then work on short scenes in pairs to explore how punctuation can change the meaning and tone of a story. The lesson will result in a final performance of a short script that combines the ideas and contributions of the group members.
Medium: Theatre