Tag: artist
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JOSEF ALBERS: LEARNING TO SEE THROUGH COLOR
Grade 4 Elementary School Project, November 2025Color is a tricky companion. It shifts, deceives, glows, and hides, depending on what sits beside it. No one understood this better than Josef Albers, one of the great teachers of the twentieth century. Albers spent decades exploring how colors speak to one another, how one hue can appear…
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From Leaf to Light: The Mosaic Drawing
This project began with a simple act: stepping outside. Students walked through the school grounds as autumn slipped toward winter, searching the ground for fallen leaves. They became observers of seasonal change, noticing how time reshapes the natural world. Some leaves were torn by wind, some freckled by decay, some filled with intricate networks of…
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Where Does the Art Live?
Grade 9 History of Art | Light, Space, and Perception In this Grade 9 History of Art project, students stepped into the worlds of James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson, artists who shape perception through light, space, and the quiet drama of seeing. Instead of beginning with monumental installations, the class began with something intimate: a…
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Exploring the Surreal: A Journey Through Surrealist Collage
Surrealism is an art movement that dares to venture beyond the ordinary, diving into the strange and enigmatic corners of the human psyche. Our latest 8th Grade project, the Surrealist Collage, challenges students to create a visual portal into a world where logic is twisted, and reality is reimagined. This post explores the project’s criteria…
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Vivid Emotions: A journey through Post-Impressionist Pastel Work
Our latest classroom project, titled ‘Post-Impressionism Blow My Mind’ invited students to delve into the world of Post-Impressionism, creating vibrant and emotionally charged artworks using chalk pastels. The goal was to encourage students to explore both the internal and external landscapes of their chosen subjects, emphasizing expressive color, distinctive mark-making, and the potential for exaggerated…
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Elementary Art Project: Exploring the Elements of Art
In our elementary school’s innovative art program, students delve into the fundamental elements of art through a hands-on project that engages their creativity and critical thinking. This project utilizes individual circular paper plates as canvases, where each plate represents a unique exploration of various artistic elements. Guided by the “Studio Habits of Mind” pedagogical approach,…
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From Darkness to Discovery: Reductive Charcoal and the Romantic Spirit
In an inspiring educational endeavor, an 8th-grade class embarked on a project that bridges the past with the present, engaging with Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” through the medium of reductive charcoal drawing. This Romantic masterpiece, painted around 1818, depicts a lone figure overlooking a misty landscape, embodying a poignant blend…
MMI Art Expanded Classroom 