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Abstract Watercolor Landscapes: LED Lights

  • This lesson integrates basic science and sewing skills with the art making process. Students will be experimenting with watercolor to create abstract landscapes on muslin fabric. With the help of Makerspace students will be using conductive thread to sew a path onto their landscapes...

Clarissa Tossin: Geographic Maps

  • This lesson will nurture student’s application of research, design, and construction, allowing hands-on assemblage of juxtaposed satellite images. Students will explore two geographic locations that are connected in some way as subject matter, for example, one image of the student’s current residence and the...

Pak Sheung-Chuen: Newspaper Collages

  • Pak Sheung-Chuen also known as “Tozer” is a writer along with being an artist. In Hong Kong from 2004-2006, Tozer was a columnist of the (Sunday) Mingpao Daily Newspaper. While in San Antonio, Tozer will be writing four pieces for the Current, which can...

Matthew Ronay: Animals, Environments, and Patterns

  • Matthew Ronay develops fantasy installations within gallery spaces. This lesson will promote and encourage student’s imagination to creating his or her own fantasy animal and forest environment. Students will learn about Ronay’s artwork, and the importance of his handmade scenery and characters that relate...

Juan Miguel Ramos: Drawing and Photoshop

  • In this lesson students will develop an understanding between the connection of art and Photoshop. Within contemporary art the technology that is in artists grasp is exponentially beneficial. Students will gain a basic understanding of Photoshop tools and how the program can profit artists...

Adam Putnam: Layering Architecture

  • In this lesson students will analyze and expand upon architecture. Referencing basic architectural elements students will illustrate their own column, arch, dome, etc. Then adorning their drawing with a separate element will promote students creativity and appropriation for their own aesthetic....

Michael Menchaca: Mesoamerican Codices

  • In this lesson we will be acquainted with the Mesoamerican culture. Just like children’s books, Mesoamerican Codices told stories using imagery and so does Michael Menchaca’s artwork. Students will be creating their own codice using a variety of stickers on transparent film. Exploring color,...

Tala Madani: One Point Perspective

  • The students will start by discussing and identifying the vocabulary of one-point perspective and the characteristics of it. Using Tala Madani’s recent artwork as a starting point we will analyze how she portrays depth on a 2-dimensional surface. The use of overlapping colors (or...

Rigoberto Luna: Vinyl Self-Portraits

  • If you had to describe yourself to another by only showing them objects, what would these objects be? This lesson will appraise individuality, allowing students to identify their personality and how to represent it through artistic expression. Students will scan an image of 4-5...

Thomas Hirschhorn: Assemblage

  • This lesson will enable students to experiment with various found materials to create a monochromatic assemblage work of art. During this process students will question and criticize the use and application of everyday objects. Using common materials such as cellophane, aluminum foil, and cardboard...

Tony Feher: Blue Painters Tape

  • This lesson will question the common use of tape and how it is used and viewed to the world. Tony Feher takes advantage of everyday objects; he alters the ordinary to create an innovative piece of artwork. Students will criticize the use of tape...
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Artpace is generously supported by: National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and more…