Part 2: Learning About the Elements of Color and Value in Art

This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we continued with our oil pastel projects by adding color to their original designs created last week. The students learned about warm and cool palettes and we discussed how each palette evoked certain images or feelings. For example, warm colors like red, orange and …

Autumn Season

For this week’s class, at Penn Treaty, we wanted the students to do a fun & unique project based around the fall season. We had them design their own leaf cutouts to be placed on a tree and also had them create some stencil designs on craft paper with a …

Dreamcatchers

This Thanksgiving week At Cione Recreation Center we celebrated Indigenous Peoples in the Americas artistic traditions by making dreamcatchers. Although unclear, it’s speculated that dreamcatchers originated from the Ojibwe tribe of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. Ojibwe and Lakota tribes used dreamcatchers as a way to boost good dreams for …

Art Quiz at Towey

The ten question quiz was given to the students to test their pre knowledge of the subject and their post knowledge after it was taught to them. I covered what organic and geometric shapes were, the different types of lines and were they are most used, the primary secondary and …