Art & Design Education
Across all grade levels, each project has an "essential question" to guide students and learning throughout the unit. The purpose of essential questions is not to have one answer, but rather to bring out new questions and new opportunities for exploration and curiosity. Each promotes divergent thinking, and thus endlessly diverse responses to the same question. The learning that takes place in this process not only helps students find their personal voice and technical skill in art, but even more importantly, helps serve as a metaphor for other experiences that they will have throughout their lives.
Sample essential questions:
How do things transform?
How do our differences connect us?
How can an object create an experience?
How do we know what's real?
Sample essential questions:
How do things transform?
How do our differences connect us?
How can an object create an experience?
How do we know what's real?
High School design projects (grades 9-12)
From left to right: "Mixed-Media & Digital Design" collage/digital travel posters, "Design & Form" architecture maquettes, paper light sculptures, cardboard chairs, recycled material fashion design, set design models
Middle School art projects (grades 6-8)
From left to right: Grade 6 papier-mâché mythical creatures, grade 6 abstract watercolor paintings, grade 7 assemblage identity boxes, grade 7 graphite metamorphosis drawings, grade 8 clay shoes of the future, grade 8 surrealism landscape collages
Primary School art projects (grades K-5)
From left to right: Kindergarten weavings, grade 1 relief faces in clay, grade 2 observational flower paintings, grade 3 superhero paintings, grade 4 box pinhole cameras, grade 5 wood dream houses