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All About Me: A Mixed-Media Collage with Mia Bonilla

Students will create artwork that reflects their unique interests and qualities using various materials.

Medium: Visual Arts

Art is Everywhere: Sketchbook/Scrapbooks with Elisabeth Herrera Very

Students will use a variety of non-traditional materials to create a sketchbook or scrapbook to explore their personal ideas. Students will continue to develop their unique point of view and identity as developing artists.

Medium: Visual Arts

Artistic Forms & Structures: A Creative Exploration with Mia Bonilla

Students will explore and create paper sculptures, using various forms and structures to express their personal ideas and emotions.

Medium: Visual Arts

Basquiat Crowns (Graffiti Art) with Michele Haney

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

Big Picture vs. Little Picture with Mika Martinez

Students will explore how what they see influences their initial perception of that moment, the people in or connected to what they see, and how that changes when more information is made available. By the end of the lesson, students will understand how an artist's choice impacts their thoughts and feelings about themselves and others.

Medium: Visual Arts

Break It Down- Drawing with Shapes with Kristi Riedel

Students will learn to break down complex drawings into familiar shapes and discuss applying this technique in other areas of problem-solving.

Medium: Visual Arts

Clorotipia: Imprimiendo con Sol y Hojas (Chlorotype: Printing with Sun and Leaves) with Christi Zorrilla & Gonzalo Benavente

Students will explore the artistic process using only drawing, sunlight and tree leaves. Students will learn to select and use materials safely and effectively, choosing those that best communicate their ideas.

Medium: Visual Arts

Collaborative Paper Making with Romana Sena

Students will work together to create recycled paper using their past work from the classroom.

Medium: Visual Arts

Collage with Erica Edwards

I can create a collage that reflects how I see myself and the world around me. Students will learn how to create a collage that reflects how they see themselves and the world around them. They will explore different materials, colors, and images to represent their personal identities, emotions, and experiences. By combining these elements, students will visually communicate their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives on their surroundings. This project will encourage creativity and self-expression, helping them reflect on their identities and how they interact with the world.

Medium: Visual Arts

Color Magic with Kawika Kalama

Students will create dioramas of reused materials to showcase one of their sacred spaces. Students will develop, explain, and investigate opportunities to be curious, open-minded, and think critically across situations and environments. They will identify a feeling or emotion associated with a place that is sacred to them or a larger community they are a part of. Students will then identify, define, and recognize the choices and contributions in promoting personal, family, and community well-being.

Medium: Visual Arts

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

Colorful Emotions with Mia Bonilla

Through the use of colorful shapes and expressive art-making, kindergarten students in our class develop important socio-emotional skills. By exploring emotions through creativity, children strengthen their social awareness and build meaningful connections with their peers and themselves. This activity serves as a foundation for lifelong emotional well-being and interpersonal relationships.

Medium: Visual Arts

Drawings Using One LineDIBUJOS DE UNA SOLA LÍNEA with Christian Barrios

Students will create drawings using a single continuous line, focusing on visual engagement and following the line to develop an image or creature.

Medium: Visual Arts

Let’s Make a Book with Roberta Lavadour

Students will use the movement of their bodies to create marks on a sheet of paper. Following step-by-step instructions, they will use that paper to create an 8-page booklet, then explore the deconstructed marks, building on them to define objects, animals, and/or other forms and coloring them in.

Medium: Visual Arts

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

Line, Color & Shape: Expression Through Abstraction with Kanani Miyamoto

Students will explore abstract art by reflecting on their emotions and recent experiences. They will consider how abstract artists use line, color, and shape to convey feelings and create their own abstract representations of an exciting moment in their lives

Medium: Visual Arts

Making Mayan Codices with Medicine Bear: RedStone Serna

Students will use traditional Indigenous art forms to explore and express their thoughts, emotions, and identity through the creation of a personal Codex book. They will reflect on how their intersectional identity shapes their perspectives and create visual representations of these reflections through storytelling and art.

Medium: Visual Arts