Category Archives: TMA: Permanent Collection

This lesson plan contains the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. Students will learn about color harmonies and Lance Letscher’s stylistic approach to making collages. Then, the students will create an abstract paper collage that expresses a type of color harmony. If you use or reference this lesson plan, please leaveContinue reading “Lesson Plan: Lance Letscher’s “Red Line””

This lesson plan contains the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The lesson discusses copyright, Norman Rockwell’s commissioned artwork, and provides a Project Based Learning (PBL) activity. Students will be grouped together and will create a collaborative mini-mural. If you use or reference this lesson plan, please leave a comment withContinue reading “Lesson Plan: Norman Rockwell’s “Two O’clock Feeding” (Father Feeding Infant)”

Source for image: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel The Color Theory: History and Art lesson provides Kindergarten, Middle School, and High School Teachers TEKS, student objectives, questions, art history, and studio art activities. The goal of this lesson is for students to learn about color theory, and create their own color wheel and still life. If you use orContinue reading “Color Theory: History and Art”

Figure 1: Coreen Spellman, Weighing Station #2, Krum, Texas, 1947, Lithograph, 12 inches X 9.75 inches, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler Texas. Figure 2: Coreen Spellman, El Campo Santo, San Jose, New Mexico, 1955, Lithograph, 8.75 inches X 12.374 inches, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler Texas. Figure 3: Coreen Spellman, Harlequin, ca. 1947, Lithograph, 12Continue reading “Lesson Plan: Coreen Spellman, ‘Spellman’s Lithographs’”

The Tyler Museum of Art contains artwork that exemplifies the elements and principles of design. This lesson discusses how selected artworks from the permanent collection exhibit each elements and principle of design. If you use or reference this lesson plan, please leave a comment with your feedback. The lesson plan can be downloaded in theContinue reading “Elements and Principles of Design”