Arts & Activities articles from March 2001

Arts & Activities archives from March 2001

EDITOR'S NOTE.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Join our celebration of color! With the proper tools--paper, crayons, pastels, colored pencils, markers, pen and ink--we can all celebrate and explore our creativity. "Everyone Can Draw," proclaims the headline of Jean Morman Unsworth's article...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWINGS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWINGS. Video/58 min./ $39.95. Level: Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. This video presents an expansive selection of 70 architectural drawings from the rich legacy of more...

ARCHITECTURE AND ART: Cultural Heritage Sites.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ARCHITECTURE AND ART: Cultural Heritage Sites. Prints, Portfolio and Guide/$55. Levels: Grades 5-8. Produced by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025,...

PORTRAITS IN WATERCOLOR.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... PORTRAITS IN WATERCOLOR. Video/59 min./$39.95. Level: Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Viewers will find both inspiration and instruction in this video, which features Charles Reid creating a...

ART 20: The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ART 20: The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art. CD-ROM/$125, plus S&H. Level: High School through Adult. Thames & Hudson, Inc., distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 500 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10110, (800) 233-4830. ...

SHOP TALK.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Handy Art[TM], by ROCK PAINT DISTRIBUTING CORP., presents Black Velvet India Ink, a smooth-flowing, clump-free ink formulated for use with brushes or pens. This fine-grade, jet-black ink is ideal for even the most advanced art projects. Black...

CAREERS IN ART.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... CAREERS IN ART. Set of 12 posters/$49.95. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Explanations and illustrations of the many career opportunities available in the visual arts...

STOP THE PRESSES!(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Getting the Local Paper to work for you The local newspaper can be interesting to read over morning coffee, but to the art teacher, it can be a valuable friend and ally. Here are four ways I've found to take full advantage of this...

Everyone Can Draw.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Every child can draw. Just ask first-graders. Every hand will fly up. But ask again in third grade and many will be hesitant. By fifth grade, there are just a few "artists." What happens to the confidence of those early years? Drawing is a...

The Beauty of Surface.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Creating Textured Backgrounds for Drawing Surface texture is one of the more compelling features of much original art work. Viewing an original painting by Vincent van Gogh or Jackson Pollock is an entirely different experience than viewing...

In the Studio with Degas.(French artist Edgar Degas)
March 1, 2001... What happens when you introduce a group of fourth-graders to the work of French artist Edgar Degas (1843-1917) and then take them back in time, through an interesting visualization and role-playing activity, to 19th-century Paris for a visit to...

PLANE JANE(S).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A diversion from the tight realism of previous work was called for with this advanced drawing class. They had the know-how to render a likeness, had done the requisite self-portrait and were now willing to experiment with breaking a few rules....

Crazy hat PORTRAITS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... These "crazy hat portraits" are the end product of a sequence of lessons, each one exciting in itself. Most of these fifth-grade students were graphically prepared to do these lessons, as F.A.C.E. School is a fine-arts public school, where...

GRANDMA MOSES in the 21st Century.
March 1, 2001... Everyone has heard of "Grandma" Moses, one of America's most heralded untrained painters, and practically a national folk hero. The moniker "grandma" was given to her and seemed more than appropriate, as she picked up the brush in her 70s,...

FEATURED ARTWORK.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Grant Wood (American, 1892-1942). Spring Turning, 1936. Oil on Masonite panel, 18 1/4" x 40 1/4". Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, N.C. Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse. THINGS TO LEARN * Between the First and Second...

clip & save.(artist Grant Wood)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... MARCH 2001 The extreme simplification of objects--"stylization"--and the precision with which he painted are qualities that quickly become recognizable in all of Grant Wood's best work. Both are clearly present in this picture, which...

GLUE-LINE INSECTS.(techniques for art teachers)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The idea of simply using insects as a drawing theme remains irresistible simply because insects possess such distinct and varied linear qualities. I have developed an idea for fourth- and fifth-grade students that combines the use of line,...

SELF-PORTRAITS WITH EXPRESSION.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Getting middle-school students to do a self-portrait is quite a task, but getting them to actually enjoy it seems out of the question. Over the past 15 years, I have come up with a way to get them to do both. The unit starts off with a...

Fish Story.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Sharing a book is always an engaging method of introducing students to a new art project, especially if that story is written and illustrated as beautifully as The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister (North South Books, 1992). The book's lesson on...

Young ARTIST.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Usually when I am free, I will pick up a pencil and start drawing. I enjoy working in pencil because I can control the media. I love art classes at school because we get to try different media and are introduced to various cultures through all...

Memories In Quotes.
March 1, 2001... Reflections for Elementary Art Teachers Have you ever had the feeling that, as elementary art teachers, we really don't matter? Have you wondered whether anyone would notice if we collapsed behind our art carts or quietly expired in the...

Making an Entrance.(teaching architecture)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Entrances have always been focuses of attention. In structures at all levels of importance, gates, doors and doorways, together with porches and porticos, are usually much more elaborate than roofs, walls and windows. Of course, every entrance...

Prague: The city is the museum.
March 1, 2001... Think famous museums and you'll probably rattle off such names as the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris and the Prado in Madrid, in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, there are art museums, but you need never set fool...