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ClipCard: Colossal Cylinders

Middle-school students draw a cylinder, transform it into a common object, and add objects around it to make it look colossal.

1 June 2025Middle School
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Process-Based Portraits

Middle-school students use critical thinking, ideation, and the power of process to create meaningful self-portraits.

15 April 2025Middle School
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Masterpiece Mash-ups

Elementary students combine historical and contemporary artworks to create a new work of art in a mash-up of ideas.

11 March 2025Elementary
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ClipCard: Mixed-Media Vinyl Portraits

High-school students use various media to create abstract or Pop Art–style portraits.

13 February 2025High School
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Advocacy: An Art Exchange with Ukraine

Students in America and Ukraine participate in an art exchange to learn about their peers through their artwork.

13 February 2025Advocacy
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Illuminated Letters

Young students identify illuminated letters and other starting-place symbols before creating their own personalized letter designs.

14 November 2024Early Childhood
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The Illustration Game

Art educator Rama Hughes shares a fun and reliable activity in which students illustrate scenes from passages of text.

14 November 2024Elementary
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ClipCard: Unexpected Linear Perspective

High-school students add their own creative twist to a traditional one-point perspective hallway drawing.

14 November 2024High School
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ARTiculture: Creativity’s Crop

A preservice art educator develops three interdisciplinary unites to engage students of all levels with the importance of agriculture.

15 October 2024K-12
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ClipCard: Fashion Reimagined

High-school students explore cultural fashion motifs with a contemporary twist.

15 October 2024High School
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ClipCard: Shape Rocket Ships

Young students experiment with shapes and color media to create a rocket ship composition.

16 September 2024Early Childhood
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Focus In: The Memory Project

An art teacher shares her students’ experiences participating in the Memory Project and its profound impact on developing compassion and empathy.

15 August 2024Middle School