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Adriana Varejão
Adriana Varejão is a Brazilian artist who is most famous for her azulejos, or glazed tiles used in Spanish and Portuguese architecture. Her tile paintings and installations are very large. Most of her work is inspired by what colonizers introduced into Brazilian society, like the tiles themselves and the blue …
Shantell Martin
Shantell Martin is a Black artist born in London who is famous for her large scale black and white drawings. She uses black pens on white surfaces creating faces, stick figures, words, objects and gestural lines on canvas, walls, shoes, pots, bottles, clothes and more. Her art is unique, busy …
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker who lived from 1844 to 1926. She is famous for portraits of the social and private lives of women, focusing specifically on the relationship between a mother and child. Later in her life, she sponsored young, American artists and became an …
Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley is a British artist who is famous for her Op Art paintings. Op Art is an art movement that uses optical illusions, or visuals that play tricks on your eyes. Many of Bridget Riley’s paintings are done in black and white, and seem to move when you look …
Swoon
Caledonia Curry, whose art appears under the name Swoon, is one of the first women to be recognized in the world of street art, which has been mostly controlled by men for many years. She makes her art on the sides of buildings in New York, in museums and 3-D …
Jenny Morgan
Jenny Morgan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are intriguing because of the contrast of her realistic faces compared to the abstract colors she uses to shade them. Many of her paintings are self-portraits, and all of them hold eye contact with the …
Peter and the Wolf: Lesson and Activity
Join ASI Teacher Sophie and learn about the famous symphony Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev to learn about different sections and instruments within classical symphonic orchestras. How can we connect the sounds they make to the sounds of different animals? At the end of the lesson, we have …