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Middle-school students use 3D-scanning technology and modeling software to capture and print lifelike portraits.
An art teacher shares strategies for cultivating a creative, art-centered community, including outdoor art projects and collaborations with artists.
Sculptors work with a wide variety of materials, such as metal, stone, wood, clay, wire, found objects, plastic—even ice and butter. They can weld or carve materials into freestanding statues or create relief sculpture, which is flat on one side and hangs on a wall.
Middle-school students take ownership over their learning while gaining familiarity with digital tools and creating a woven optical illusion.
Interdisciplinary artist Sharon Norwood uses line as a powerful symbol to explore perceptions of hair in history and the present.
Middle-school students draw a cylinder, transform it into a common object, and add objects around it to make it look colossal.
An art teacher begins her classes with a mindful art activity to ground students in the present and prepare them to learn.
Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, reflects on the importance of an innovative art curriculum that fosters curiosity and creative risk-taking.
Filled with opportunities to build critical thinking skills and choice, this brand-new middle school art curriculum for grades 7–8 is designed to help students express their ideas and feelings through meaningful artmaking and see themselves as part of the learning process.
Middle-school students acquire a variety of life skills while assembling and personalizing bound sketchbooks.
Origami artist Saya Okayama blends Japanese tradition and Western decorative aesthetics to create beautiful works from natural materials.
Middle-school students use critical thinking, ideation, and the power of process to create meaningful self-portraits.
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