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These standards-based workshops center on the creative process. Original works of art inspire observation and discussion in the galleries and art-making projects in the studio led by certified artist educators. The interdisciplinary topics shown below can be tailored to teachers’ objectives and to students’ prior art experience.
Thursdays or Fridays, 10:10 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
$10.00/student
Everyday Materials and Everyday Life
Grade 4 and up
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, is the context for looking at our world with fresh eyes. Gallery discussion of artworks in the exhibition focuses on artists’ interpretations of everyday experiences. In the studio, students use materials imaginatively to explore their own daily life, discovering how our familiar world is transformed when seen in unfamiliar ways. Available through Jan. 9, 2009.
Art in Three Dimensions: The Human Figure
Grades K–12
Proportion, volume, pose, gesture, expression—these elements can transform lifeless mounds of clay into expressive human figures. In the galleries, students analyze and sketch realistic and abstract figurative sculpture from a range of cultures and time periods. In the studio, they learn to translate armatures and clay into three-dimensional forms that occupy and gesture into space, and to explore personal expression through pose, texture, and detail.
Artists’ Choices: The Creative Process
Grades K–12
Finished works of art are the combined result of the artist’s conscious aesthetic choices, experimentation, and a bit of chance. Students consider a variety of paintings in the galleries, making observations about the impact of artists’ choices—composition, materials, and style—on the work’s effect and on its possible interpretations. Each student selects an artwork for an in-depth investigation that inspires experiments in the studio with the artistic decision-making process.
Geometry, Proportion, and Ratio: Connections between Art and Math
Grades K–12
Students discover interrelationships between art and mathematics as they recognize and analyze the use of geometry, proportion, ratio, pattern, and symmetry in landscape and abstract paintings, figurative sculpture, and architecture. They experiment with mathematical thinking in their own two-dimensional compositions and discover wider applications for their problem-solving skills. Topics and concepts reinforce classroom preparations for PSSA math subjects.
Impressionism: Experimenting with Color
and Brushstroke
Grade 3 and up
Impressionist artists, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt experimented with color, brushstroke, and composition to capture their observations of daily experiences in ways that set their paintings apart from past art and conveyed modern life. Students analyze the technical innovations they discover in Impressionist paintings and practice using them in their own compositions in the studio. They also experiment with the techniques of such Post-Impressionist artists as Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Signac.
Create Your Own Myth
Grade 3 and up
Athena, Zeus, and Nike are among the towering mythological figures represented in the museum in ancient Greek art, casts of ancient sculpture and architecture, and classically inspired art from later periods. Students explore the roles of myths in different cultures and they create their own heroes and myths in drawings and clay relief sculpture. They discover the ways in which symbolism and physical characteristics convey personality and mythical powers.
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