Question:
What's a good cirriculum for art classes?
a community class for 10 to 16 year olds with multiple mediums
Additional Details4 months ago
creative expression will be encouraged and no boundries on what they can do but I would also like to include art basics such as still lifes and landscapes to see their abilities.
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
If you can, ask them (!). Seriously, that way you can be their access to various media but not hinder their creativity. I taught for a while and found (and learned in college) that the most important thing (no matter what subject you are teaching) is to relate the material to the students' lives...so, at least, find out what they are interested in.
I took art in grade school to have access to new media. However, I hated it when the teacher tried to control my creativity. As a student, I liked it when the teacher told us we were to use a certain medium but gave us free reign on subject matter.
Note: if you find that some students have trouble finding ideas, then guide them by asking them questions about how they perceive art or what they think the function of art is...or simply questions about their lives or what is important to them.
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Good to hear! Just divide it up every week or every couple of days (depending on time/schedule)...
--still lifes (set up a bowl of fruit--or whatever--with a light source on a table in the middle of the room...it is awesome as a student to compare viewpoints depending on where in the room a student is sitting)
--human models--before doing give them a worksheet with a female and male outline with the inside having the "average" headlengths, heads inside the outline of each part of the whole-- (then, have students volunteer to strike a pose and hold it for like 30 seconds or so with each pose focusing on a different aspect)...e.g., the outline of the body, the details of the body, making a collage of different poses on the page...I remember using newsprint and charcoal
--landscape (take them outside and experience nature firsthand)
--include other art forms like music (e.g., play music and let them free-draw--sometimes just what comes to mind or sometimes in an effort to create something that does not look like a known object/ something recognizable)
--soft pastel portraits--use a photo or real person or combine diff. aspects from photos
--painting--let them do a self-portrait (take a picture of them with a digital camera posing however they want with different light sources in a darkened room...you know, for shadows)
--comics (Sunday comics or otherwise)...let them bring in a comic, choose a pic, draw/paint that pic in a different style (e.g., a cubist Snoopy)...let them have fun with it
--wire sculpture--use wire to create a 3-D sculpture...as a student, I made a 3-D "monkey" hanging from monkey bars, that my teacher grounded (the monkey bars) in a piece of wood
Hope this helps :)