Kindergarten Celebration Pennents at Whittier International School with Beta Florian

</Fluxus-Theater > : Fluxus through theatrical performance. Young children perform fluxus art in a theatrical theme as a way to understand performance art and play. Placement: Urban Arts Academy K-2 Afterschool Program with teaching artist Jeralise Tylke.

Pre-K self portraits inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat. MCAD Teaching Artist Dana Sexton leading the project in La Kong’s Preschool class at Urban Arts Academy.

Product creation for a fictional retail store designed to align with the season, target audience and overall brand identity of the store presented with the student ‘pitch’. Teaching Artist Minor and Entrepreneurial Studies Major working with Sagirah Shahid’s 2nd-4th grade after school programming.

Graphic Design addresses posters for classroom sales in a Social Studies Monetization unit stduents working with MCAD Teaching Artist in Ashley Rudolphs 2nd grade classroom at Whittier International School.

Based on traditional Ojibwe animal paintings discovered in their reading, students create their own artistic renderings of the animals they feel represents them using vibrant colors and abstract shapes to interpret their characteristics. MCAD Teaching Artist Evie Rozendaal working with Ulla Tervo Desnick and her 2nd graders at Expo Elementary School.

Using ancient Japanese marbling Suminagashi techniques, students collaborate to produce ink designs that they will transfer to paper from water and draw comparisons between water treatment/eliminating water pollution and lifting the ink. MCAD Teaching Artist Evie Rozendaal working with Jane Swatosh and 4th graders at Whittier International School.

A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.

Being a Weather Reporter. In this lesson teaching artist Dan Ploof guides students through the visualization of the weather report as they set up background for their weather reporting videos.

Kindergarteners use clay to invent planets using their knowledge and experience on Earth. 

A large scale community paper making project investigating papermaking in industrial and traditional settings. 

Using Algebra in the 7th and 8th grade classroom to investigate identity and self. A project created and taught by Sculpture major and Teaching Artist minor Eli deVries.

An arts infused lesson integrating the art of the short comic with a section of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl.   MCAD teaching artist working with 7th + 8th grade Language Arts students at Barton Open School.

In this Mia day long ‘making’ and ‘seeing’ experience students will be create fantastical creatures or sculptures out of cardboard in 3D backdrops after touring items from the museums impressionist collection and contemporary sculpture. MCAD Teaching Artist Calvin Hafermann working in Saturday art classes with Witt Siasoco at Mia.

Product creation for a fictional retail store designed to align with the season, target audience and overall brand identity of the store presented with the student ‘pitch’. Teaching Artist Minor and Entrepreneurial Studies Major working with Sagirah Shahid’s 2nd-4th grade after school programming.

What is Art? What is performance? What makes a happening. How does coding intersect with algebra? Digital Fluxus in 7-8 grade math classroom. MCAD Teaching Artist Minor/ Animation Major Jeralise Tylke working with Alison Ruben in 7th and 8th grade Algebra classroom at Barton Open School.

The Comic and the fable or the Fable of the Comic. Telling a story with drawing. MCAD Teaching Artist Minor / Comic Major Ingrid Jorgensen working in Brenda Butler’s Art class at Field Community School with middle school students.

A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.

An introduction to hand lettering and calligraphy with a focus on historical documents.

Using Chrome books and free application students take photos of themselves to create their own Gif expressing an emotion.

Students individually create a tessellation pattern which are combined into a group project and printed onto a light fabric as an introduction to production design.

Students will construct flip books that investigate wave formation through hand drawing and repetition to gain a deeper understanding of the physics and basic animation principles.

The four color process for printmaking — working from computer to screen. MCAD Teaching Artist Calvin Hafermann working with printmaker Jeremy Lundquist at Perpich Arts High school.

Young artists finding their way — 3 personal branding exercises.

Ceramics in the art world - a presentation. A presentation by Zachary North at South High School in David Olson’s Ceramics course.

Graphic design and the illustration come together in the band poster taught by Teaching Artist minor / Illustration major Betsy Lehr at Southwest High school in IB and AP Art class.

A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.

A introduction to public art in Chicago and more by Zoja Chmielarczyk in preparation for high school student murals with teaching artist Dorian Sylvain.

An introduction to murals in Chicago and more by Zoja Chmielarcyk in preparation for a mural project with artist Dorian Sylvain.

An introduction to slip casting for the highschool ceramics student.

This lesson covers the basics of using Adobe Photoshop to digitally edit and publish and document traditional analog artwork.

An observational drawing exercise investigating interior / exterior relationship through multiple drawings of bell pepper as students cut sections.

This Honors Art project focuses on a graphite drawing exercise that engages students in distinguishing between dark, light, and mid-tones through hatching on tracing paper and collaging portions of the hatched tracing paper values onto a self portrait to create contrast and from.

A collaborative thematic comic project where students work in small groups of two to four students from a single word or idea prompt. This project was taught at both Southwest High School with Art Teacher Cecily Spano's Advanced Art class and Perpich Arts High School with Art Teacher Pat Benincasa's Drawing and Painting class by Teaching Artist Marina Harkness.

The elements of drawing — finding pattern and texture. MCAD Teaching Artist Minor/Sculpture Major Zachary North assisting in Gregory Rose’s with Drawing 1 at MCTC.

This Photo 1 workshop offers an introduction to photographer Jerry Uelsmann’s photo techniques of darkroom manipulations with negative overlapping to create one image from multiple negatives. Taught at MCTC with MCAD Photo major and Teaching Artist Minor Tom Bierlein.

The two-part collage and image transfer project introduces a variety of collage methods including, image transfers, cut and paste applications, reductive image disruptions, and transparent glazing. Teaching arists Madison Bruner working with AVIVO Artworks.

A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.

Comic Journaling using text and image to represent a day in the life through character design and storytelling.

This lesson covers the basics of using Adobe Photoshop to digitally edit and publish and document traditional analog artwork.

A two week non figurative self portrait watercolor workshop with teens at Kulture Klub Collaborative lead by Teaching Artist Jonathan Herrera.