Personalized Egyptian Cartouche Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is ideal for younger aged children to learn about Egyptian hieroglyphics and symbols.  They will create a personalized cartouche spelling out their own name. 


Local Values Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is an excellent for a studio class, focusing on the elements and principles of art.  The students create a drawing stemming from a photograph, first matching the original photo in color and local value then in pencil and/or charcoal or conte matching only the local values.

Making the Abstract Abstract Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is ideal for the advanced high school aged student.  Students begin making an abstract sculpture inspired by an Abstract Expressionistic painting.  They will then create an abstract painting inspired by the sculpture they already created.  This lesson also touches on the benefits of making art from art.

Jean Michel-Basquiat Film Lesson Plan
Students will watch the film, Basquiat but Julian Schnabel, learning about the artist, the NeoExpression movement, and Pop art. Student will also be acquainted with how artists can collaborate with other artists. This film is best suited for older students since the movie does contain some mature topics.

Printmaking Lesson Plan
This is an excellent lesson plan for younger students as and introduction to both Pop Art and printmaking.  Ultimately, the students will be creating their own linoleum block prints.

Pointillism Lesson Plan
Beneficial to students of all ages, this lesson plan explores the Pointillism technique developed in the Post-Impressionism movement. Students will be creating their own still life using the pointillistic technique.

Alexander Calder Lesson Plan
One must never overlook the beauty of Calder's mobiles and this lesson helps from doing just that.  Ideal for for middle school and high school students, they will create their own animal figure using wire, beads, and yarn. 

Cubist Self-Portrait Lesson Plan
Students will create a self-portrait after becoming introduced with some basic concepts of Cubism.  This project also advocates the utilization of mixed media.  This lesson plan is best suited for Middle School level students.

Protesting through Art Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is suited for the advanced high school aged student.  The students will create a work of art; a painting, poster, etc., that expresses an opinion on a subject that is important to the individual student.  This subject can range from a local issue to a global one.

Pushing or Pulling? Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is good for the advanced high school aged student.  The student will learn an approach to abstract painting through the use of collage.  First creating a collage with consideration of line of coincidence, the students will create an abstract painting from that collage.

Egyptian Sarcophagus Lesson Plan
Great for middle school level students, this lesson teaches about the sarcophagus and its role in ancient egyptian culture.  Students will create their on model sarcophagus using a mask they create as well as decorative elements like the symbols and hieroglyphics used on genuine Egyptian art.

Matisse Bookmark Lesson Plans
Students learn about the artwork of Henry Matisse and the fauvist period.  They then make their own bookmarks using the same colorful elements that they learned about in Matisse's paintings and collages. Ideal for grade school level students.

Marc Chagall Lesson Plan
Marc Chagall's brightly colored and surrealist paintings will be explored in this lesson plan.  Students will create their own artwork building off of the elements they've learned about in Chagall's whimsical and dreamlike artwork.  Middle school level students would benefit best from this lesson plan.

Color Emotions Lesson Plan
Grade school level students will first hear a reading of Dr. Seuss's book, My Many Colored Days.  Afterward they will be asked to draw a picture of an animal that they will color in order to convey an emotion. 

Cave Painting Lesson Plan
Incredible and intense!  Students will enter a transformed classrom and find themselves in a cave painting where they will be invited to participate in making their own cave painting on the "walls."  Absolutely perfect for early aged students.

Color Wheel Lesson Plan
Basic but imperative.  A lesson plan for students of all ages to introduce, refresh, or master their knowledge of the color element in art.