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Ceramics and Fine Art

Ceramics and Fine Art

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

Poster Illustration

Poster Illustration

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.

Sculpting an Object

Sculpting an Object

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.

The Value Portrait - Arts Honors High School

The Value Portrait - Arts Honors High School

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.

Comic Jam for Highschool Students

Comic Jam for Highschool Students

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.

Value as Form / Drawing

Value as Form / Drawing

This drawing project introduced Holy Angel's high school art students to the essentials of shading by looking deeper into form and value, and considering how they come together to create the illusion of a 3D object lead by Teaching Artist Hannah Brown.

Design, Painting Techniques, and Painting on a Canvas

Design, Painting Techniques, and Painting on a Canvas

A four week painting project where students from El Colegio High School learned learning painting techniques, sketching a composition for a canvas, and painting a canvas representing the student’s ideas and design lead by Teaching Artist Elisa Gomez.

Introduction to Figure Drawing: Timed & Extended Poses

Introduction to Figure Drawing: Timed & Extended Poses

How will students accurately represent the figure, while implementing their own artistic hand? A live figure drawing experience for Blaine High School Arts Students lead by Teaching Artist Nathalie Pedracine.

Essential Abstraction

Essential Abstraction

How to Abstract and image? The Craig Highschool Advanced Art students engage in an abstraction project with Teaching Artist Hannah Northup.

Emulsion Screenprinting at MIA

Emulsion Screenprinting at MIA

Screenprinting and painting on t-shirts for the May Day Parade at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts with Community Programming lead by MCAD Teaching Artist Vedashree Bankar.

Emulsion Screenprinting

Emulsion Screenprinting

Emulsion Printing with Graham Judd's Printmaking class at Perpich Art High School with MCAD Teaching Artist Colleen McClaren.

Atmospheric Painting

Atmospheric Painting

A unique painting experience and lesson introducing Atmospheric Painting with the Minnesota Perpich Art High students in Pat Benincasa's Painting class designed and taught by  MCAD Teaching Artist Austin Eckstrom.

Intro to Printmaking: Pressed Drawing

Intro to Printmaking: Pressed Drawing

Pressed Drawing: the  monotype process was introduced to Coon Rapids High School art students in Jennifer Latuffe's Drawing 1 class by MCAD Teaching Artist Austin Ekstrom.  

Emotive Self-Portrait Ideation Sketch

Emotive Self-Portrait Ideation Sketch

The Emotive Self Portrait: is preparatory ideation project introduced by MCAD Teaching Artist Kacey Mendenwaldt at Anoka High School in collaboration with Art Educator Kevan Nitzberg.