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Programs Levels
Program K introduces art from a variety of times and places. Students create Persian miniatures, Japanese prints, Kachina masks, and Byzantine mosaics, exploring how people from different cultures incorporate art into their lives. Other Program K projects include sunflower paintings inspired by Vincent van Gogh, weavings in the style of the medieval unicorn tapestries, and collages based on Henri Rousseau's Jungle Scene. Students also learn to draw basic shapes, patterns, faces, and landscapes using tempera paint, oil pastels, chalk pastels, and collage materials. More Info
The theme of Program 1 is discovering the story in a work of art. Students learn to analyze clues in a composition to interpret the message of the artist. They see how jagged lines can make a seascape threatening and how color can set the mood in a landscape. Students master techniques such as drawing contour figures, employing Georges Seurat-style pointillism, and printing repeated designs inspired by Polynesian tapa cloths. Additional Program 1 projects give students the opportunity to craft a clay animal based on Eskimo art, design an African mask, paint an Impressionist scene, and create an abstract composition in the style of Jackson Pollock. More Info
In Program 2, students learn how artists use their art to reflect themselves and their ideas about the world. Students examine art representing various viewpoints, from Vincent van Gogh's troubled self-portrait to Wassily Kandinsky's playful color study. As they make portraits with clay, oil pastels, collage paper, and finger paint, students master the techniques of drawing facial proportions and express their views of themselves. They gain historical perspective and build their artistic skill by drawing prehistoric cave animals, making Chinese calligraphy trees, and printing a Currier and Ives-style landscape. More Info
Learning the tricks of perspective can help students see the world in new ways. In Program 3, students learn how artists use aerial and vanishing point perspectives to create three-dimensional illusions. Students investigate methods used by Maurice Utrillo and Paul Cezanne—such as varying size and overlapping forms—to create the illusion of distance, explore Johannes Vermeer's manipulation of color, and learn how a viewer's perspective is affected by composition and technique. In other Program 3 projects, students make a Chinese scroll, compose a Georges Braque-style cubist still life, and draw horses inspired by Edgar Degas's Race Horses. More Info
In Program 4, students learn about artists who use abstraction to emphasize the importance of feelings and ideas, rather than trying to capture a realistic scene. In this program, students create drawings of abstract animals, wire sculptures of action figures, and stencils of organic shapes. They explore Salvador Dali's transformations of realistic figures, Charles Demuth's precisionist style, and Georgia O'Keefe and Helen Frankenthaler's abstract color studies. Other Program 4 projects give students a chance to abstract a face as they create a Pablo Picasso-style portrait, sculpt a clay figure inspired by Auguste Rodin, and paint a historical mural on Mission life in the style of Diego Rivera. More Info
Program 5 focuses on American artists throughout history and how their work portrays different aspects of national and cultural life. As they study the techniques of colonial painters, students learn to draw proportional figures; by comparing various landscapes, they come up with their own interpretation of a westward expansion scene. Students complete portraits in the style of John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart and learn to show texture and detail in paint like Winslow Homer and John James Audubon. Additional Program 5 projects include pop art prints inspired by Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can, Faith Ringgold-style quilt designs, and a clay food sculpture based on Claes Oldenburg's Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything. More Info
With Program 6, Art in Action moves into middle school and begins an exploration of art from ancient civilizations. In addition to expanding their skill with color, design, and perspective, students develop a comprehensive understanding of classical forms and ideals. Students design Egyptian stele, draw Mesopotamian animals, experiment with Chinese brush painting, and practice detailed incising in their creation of clay mummiform figures. Other Program 6 projects include a Greek vase and classical Greek temple, a charcoal and chalk pastel piece inspired by a Roman portrait, and a dreamlike story using colored markers on a transparency inspired by Marc Chagall's The Artist and his Model. More Info
Program 7 focuses on the work of Renaissance artists to teach realism and perspective. Using masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Buonarroti Michelangelo, and Sanzio Raphael to guide them, students learn the techniques of foreshortening, drawing frontal and profile figures, shading to create form, and arranging composition. Program 7 explores purely decorative design as well as the architectural concepts of balance, symmetry, and unity. Students create African clay animals based on a Yoruba ivory bracelet, design antique fonts in the fashion of the Irish Book of Kells, print landscape images based on Hokusai's The Great Wave, and fashion a place setting like those featured in Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party. More Info
In Program 8, students study the work of artists exploring the American Experience. Students encounter America through the eyes of realistic artists like George Caleb Bingham, Dorothea Lange, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton, as well as in the work of modern artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella. Like the work of the artists they study, students' art varies from life-like landscapes and historical portraits to reflections of conceptual psychological ideas and social commentary. Program 8 projects include a mixed media collage based on a Robert Rauschenberg's combines, watercolor houses inspired by Edward Hopper, and an etched door and foil-sculpted figure modeled after a piece by George Segal. More Info
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3925 Bohannon Drive, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.566.8339 |
