Secondary

Designed a six week curriculum using different media and active participation strategies.

Included literacy elements in each two hour lesson.

Students collaborated on a student-run art exhibition for their families and the college community.

Horizons Summer Camp - Rising 6th

Big Idea: Transformation

Essential Question: How do we transform something to make it cute or creepy?

Focus Artists: Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Kush, Carrington, Garcia, Baseman, Koons, Skoglund.

Objectives:

1 - Students will be able to define the main attributes of surrealist artwork.

2 - Students will explore what makes something cute or creepy.

3 - Students will explore compositional techniques.

4 - Students will create an oil pastel drawing showing abstraction that will create cute or creepy characteristics.

Big Idea: Identity

Essential Question: How can we use symbols to depict our identity?

Focus Artist: Aztec Calendar, Tibetan monks, Native Americans

Technology Use: Students used compasses, protractors, and rulers to create mandalas.

Big Idea: Transformation

Essential Question: How can we transform a landscape into an abstract landscape?

Focus Artists: Van Gogh, Dali, Miro, Britto, Hockney, Kandinsky

Technology Use: Flipped classroom. Created YouTube videos that were viewed on students’ tablets.

Big Idea: Community

Essential Question: How can we create a large scale mural to celebrate a diverse community?

Focus Artists: Bansky, Wall Therapy Rochester, Stephen Powers, Swoon, JR.

Technology use: Students collaborated on the best way to enlarge their image.

Students learned about the community at the School of Holy Childhood.

Allendale students collaborated with the staff and students in designing, planning, and executing the mural.