Visual Arts Residencies
 

Whether your visual arts residency focuses on book arts, printmaking, painting, graphic design, pottery or quilting, students will have an arts experience that captures their interest and highlights their imagination.

 

Sample Visual Arts Residencies


  • Make a Mural: Create a mural around a curricular theme or special focus, using different media such as paints, papier-mâché, ceramic tiles or found objects. The mural may be permanent or temporary, inside or outside the building .

    Curriculum Link: Social Studies
    Grades K–12
     
  • The Art of the Abstract: Make a different piece of abstract art each day and discover the various styles of contemporary art. Students will make wonderful sculptures, paintings, installations, costumes, poetry and videos.  Student work can be displayed in your school, creating your very own Abstract Art Museum.

    Curriculum Links: Math, Social Studies
    Grades 3–12
     
  • Photography: A professional photographer teaches techniques in digital or traditional photography. The culminating project can include the creation of a personal photo-collage album.

    Curriculum Links: Math, Social Studies
    Grades 3–12
     
  • Architecture: Architecture gives a whole new dimension to Math when students study symmetry and scale, draw floor plans and create different model structures. Study may incorporate exploration of the neighborhood, mapping or urban planning. Architecture reinforces skills in measurement, fractions and more.

    Curriculum Links: Math, Social Studies
    Grades 3–12
     
  • Book Making: Create pop-up, accordian-fold or fabric-bound books to reinforce reading, writing and comprehension skills, as well as math concepts such as fractions and proportions.

    Curriculum Links: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, ESL
    Grades K-8
     
  • Puppet Making: Inspired by existing literature or curricular themes, children construct clay and rod, folded paper (origami), life-size, shadow, marionette, fabric, mixed media and/or hand puppets.  This Puppet Making residency can culminate with a puppet play.

    Curriculum Links: Language Arts, Social Studies, ESL
    Grades K-8
     
  • Video Arts: Students learn fundamental film-making techniques while creating a video yearbook, filming school activities or making a movie on a topic of their choice.

    Curriculum Links: Language Arts, Social Studies
    Grades 5-12
     
  • Quilting: Each student crafts a quilting block, either by creative artistic applique or traditional hand piecing. These are joined together to form a beautiful quilt, based on a curricular or community theme, that can be displayed in your school to foster cultural awareness and pride.

    Curriculum Links: Language Arts, Social Studies
    Grades 2-12
     
  • Measurements and Murals: Improve math skills as students learn the concept of "scale" in a new and exciting way. After designing a mural on paper, they use a grid to scale their pictures, so that the mural is large enough to hang in a public location in your school.

    Curriculum Link: Math
    Grades 6-12
     
  • Mask Making: Utilizing all the elements of visual art - size, shape, color, and texture - young people create decorated masks from diverse media that are colorful, textured and personal.

    Curriculum Link: Social Studies
    Grades K-12

Other Art Projects:

  • Collages
  • Found Objects
  • Scultpure
  • Mosaics
  • Stained Glass
  • Calligraphy
  • Paper Making
  • Printmaking
  • Paper-Mache
  • Set Design
  • Chinese Paper Cutting
  • The Art of Collecting
  • Drawing
  • Painting