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Hey, That's My Art!
AEI Secondary art educators are welcome to submit the url of a gallery of student works for a link here.
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Art Lesson Plans for Secondary
| Lesson | Teacher/Designer | Example/More Info |
|---|---|---|
| Value Grids | Chris Noel | Do your students need a little work with value |
| Stackers: Pottery Sculpture | Laura Lengeling |  Create a sculptureusing beginning wheel-thrown pots |
| Graffiti | Kassi Nelson | Commercial Art Project |
| Op Art Drawing Project | Ronda Sternhagen | Identify Bridget Riley Art and create an Op Art piece |
| Inventing Personalities with Computer Graphic Design | Chris Noel | Construct visual portraits using photos and computer, then write profiles. Rubric |
| ScARTtegories | Ronda Sternhagen | An art game to play at the beginning of the year or the week before Winter Break! Example |
| Kaleidocycles | Ronda Sternhagen |  A paper manipulation of symmetrical diamonds or triangles. |
| Masterpiece Cookies | Lisa Artherholt | Edible Art |
| Stained Glass | Lisa Artherholt | Simple Suncatchers |
| Wire Bracelet with Beading | Nancy Sojka | A project done by art teachers late into the evening at an AEI Conference |
| Clay Children's Nursery Rhymes | Kassi Nelson | Create a slab tile depicting a favorite Nursery Rhyme |
Art and a Caring Exchange
These students from Midland Community Schools (Wyoming, IA) participated in the Memory Project in Spring 2010. Beth, Stacie, Channing, and Annie painted the portraits as part of their Senior Art Studio (senior independent study) class just before they graduated. Their art teacher Kellie Kelck shared this photo.
The Memory Project (www.thememoryproject.org) is an art service-learning program in which advanced high school students create portraits for children living in orphanages around the world.
The project was developed by Ben Schumaker as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
In 2003, while volunteering in Guatemala, Ben encountered a man who had grown up in an orphanage. This man explained that he did not have any personal belongings from his youth. He suggested that Ben help the kids collect special items that would contribute to their sense of identity and self-worth.
From this, Ben envisioned that having portraits made by art students would be a way to connect American youth with kids from other countries in a meaningful exchange of caring. The Memory Project was officially born in the fall of 2004.
Several Iowa teachers have participated in this program. If you submit portraits, please share photos with webmaster@artedia.org.
