Dance
Choreograph a dance or performance
Compare/contrast multicultural dance styles
Critique dance performances, suggest changes
Learn & demonstrate different dance styles
Learn about how body, action, time, and energy create meaning in dance
Take a dance class
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Theater
Audition for a local theater
Compare/contrast 2 plays or playwrights
Compare/contrast multicultural theater genres
Critique theater performances, suggest changes
Direct your own play
Learn sound-editing software
Research lighting and sound controls in theater
Write a script
Write your own version of an existing play
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Visual and Media Arts
A great element to include in any art project:
Elements & Principles of Art & Design (link to these worksheets Art_Elements.pdf and Art_Principles.pdf)
Architectural drafting: design your own home or building
Architecture: from a specific era or country
Architecture: modern marvels
Architecture: biography on famous architect (i.e. Frank Lloyd Wright)
Art history: research a period that interests you
Art history: research how art of a specific era linked to the historical events of the time
Art history: research a movement in art history & make an artwork in that style
Abstract Expressionism
Art Deco
Arts & Crafts Movement
Baroque
Bauhaus
Classical
Constructivism
Cubism
Dada
Expressionism
Fauvism
Folk-art
Futurism
Harlem Renaissance
Hudson River School
Impressionism
Mannerism
Medieval & Gothic art
Minimalism
Modernism
Neo-classical
Neo-expressionism
Op-art
Outsider art
Pop art
Renaissance
Rococo
Surrealism
Art museum: curate a virtual art museum
Art show: curate a real-life or virtual art exhibit
Biography: African American artists
Biography: compare and contract two or more famous artists
Biography: defend the historical contribution of an artist or art movement
Biography: Latino or Hispanic artists
Biography: on a famous artist; make a piece inspired by that artist
Basket coiling
Basket weaving
Calligraphy
Cartoon illustration
Cartoon: manga and anime
Clay: pinch pots
Clay: slab building
Clay: compare styles from different cultures
Clay: wheel throwing at a community center
Collaged artwork
Color mixing
Color psychology
Color theory
Crochet
Drawing: abstract
Drawing: life drawing
Drawing: line drawing
Drawing: perspective (2D, 3D…)
Drawing: pointillism or stippling
Drawing: shading & contrast
Drawing: still life
Fashion design
Found object: search for pre-existing artwork in the world around you; curate an art exhibits
Graphic Design
Graphic Design: advertisement
Graphic Design: logo
Graphic Design: product packaging
Graphic Design: website
Graphic Novel
Illustration: your own story
Illustration: a children’s book
Illustration: your favorite story
Indigenous art: pick a country and research the ancient art of native people
Industrial design: design a product that can be bought and sold
Knitting
Mixed media: combine 2 or more forms of artwork
Native American art: bead weaving
Native American art: clay
Native American art: historical vs. today
Native American art: research a specific group
Painting: acrylics
Painting: oils
Painting: sumi-e; Japanese brush painting
Painting: watercolor
Photography: abstract
Photography: documentary
Photography: portrait
Photography: landscape
Photography portfolio
Photography: biographies of famous photographers
Photography history: how did it become an art form
Printmaking: linoleum block
Printmaking: monoprinting
Printmaking: multi-block printing
Printmaking: vegetable or rubber stamping
Printmaking: wood
Psychology: art therapy
Sculpture
Sewing
Quilting
Textile design
Video artwork
What is art? Tackle the topic