This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The class will discuss Jorge Wilmot’s methods of ceramics that he learned in Mexico and in Europe. Specifically, the students will learn about the burnishing ceramic styles of Tonalá and Barro Bruñido. Next, the teacher will discuss the processes taken to create both a functional and non-functional ceramic work. Then, the students will begin working on their own ceramic work that is inspired by Wilmot’s Tonalá ceramic process.
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Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: January 2025
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for January 2025. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: December 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for December 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Billy Hassell, “Roadrunner Near Marfa”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The students will learn about the art style of Billy Hassell and his use of patterns in his painting Roadrunner Near Marfa. Additionally, the students will discuss how the artist as well as the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation have helped conservation efforts to protect endangered Texas animals. Afterwards, the students will create a construction paper collage of an endangered or protected animal that is found in Texas.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: November 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for November 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: October 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for October 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: September 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for September 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Lilian Garcia-Roig’s “Green Curtain”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for High School art teachers. The students will study the impasto style found within the artist’s painting. Then, the students will create their own impasto artwork using acrylic paint of canvas board. The students will complete the project by creating an artist statement that explains how they created and planned their finished composition.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: August 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for August 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Otis Dozier, “Untitled (Mountain Scene)”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The students will study the minimal Regionalist art style of Otis Dozier and his composition Untitled (Mountain Scene). Then, the class will discuss Regionalism and how the different environmental regions in Texas can be represented in Dozier’s style. The students will be paired into groups to work collaboratively to represent a specific environmental biome. The project will be completed by each group presenting their Dozier inspired habitat to the class.
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