| Still Life Study |
A look at Matisse’s painting, The Goldfish, and a brief history of still life paintings begins this 3-4 day residency. Students then will go on to create their own version of this still life. On three separate pieces of paper, they will create a fishbowl and color with oil pastels, draw a table shape on construction paper and paint a collection of leaves to cut out. They will make a collage of their still life image using the pieces they’ve prepared glued onto large paper. The last step is to add a touch of Matisse-style patterns in the background. Grades 3-5 |  | The Art of Collaboration | Let Rajeckas and Intraub help your students build a sense of trust, teamwork and collaboration while introducing ways to read and write more effectively. Paul and Neil turn a variety of children’s games like “Red Light/Green Light” and “Telephone” into group performances that help students build a sense of teamwork and cooperation. The exercises emphasize watching and listening. They also provide a framework for helping students to interpret and express ideas, analyze and critique their own and others creative work, and develop effective strategies for social interpretation. Grades K-6
Curriculum Connections: Theater Arts, Language Arts, & Higher Level Thinking Skills |  | The Arts & Math | Math and Art have many intersections. Artist Mark Stankiewicz has created these 3-10 day residencies to target those lessons in a way that benefit the artist & mathematician within each student. Isometric Drawing - Students create a simple block toy design using isometric drawings, including measurements. Students are shown how to draw an object from three different sides, including the isometric equivalent, representing a three-dimensional object in two-dimensions and vice-versa. Both isometric graph paper and architectural plan paper are utilized. Abilities of ruler use are honed. The students then create a physical version of this toy out of Legos. Tessellation - Artists make tessellations by twisting and turning shapes to find images that fit together like puzzle pieces. M.C. Escher is an artist/mathematician who is a proponent of this style of art. Students will create original geometric tessellations using the mathematical terms like flips, slides, and turns; terms usually used unconsciously by artists to create Tessellations. Mark will discuss the mathematical rule of why some shapes work and others do not. Scale • Proportion • Ratio • Similarity - Students use rulers to design a graph and then set it on an original image. They then make a larger graph with the ruler and transfer the smaller image to a larger graph square by square. This demonstrates scale, similarity, ratio and proportion – as they could enlarge the drawing to the power of 2, 3, 4 or any other number. The art student learns to simplify and enlarge a drawing; and for the math student, it concretizes the ideas of an exponent, and scale, ratio and proportion. Grades 3-12
Descriptions above are examples – residencies will be customized to the age and ability of the students |
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