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Barmone, Karen; Kemp, Jane – Arts & Activities, 2002
Describes an advanced elementary art project that was inspired by a fountain. Explains that the students created water fountains for tabletop display using hand building clay and glazing techniques. States that students selected a design based upon their abilities. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Art Materials, Creativity
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2002
Presents a project for beginning art students where they viewed artworks by Norman Rockwell as examples of visual storytelling. Created their own works of art to tell a story using clay to make a sculpture. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Products, Artists
Brew, Charl Anne – Arts & Activities, 2002
Presents a project for students in Art 1 and Art 2 courses in which they created small, clay, animal pots. Describes the process of creating the pots beginning with student research, the project planning stage, and the production of the pot project. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Ceramics, Educational Strategies
Cross, Kate – Arts & Activities, 2003
Describes an art project that taught students about the work of two different artists: (1) Edgar Degas; and (2) Alexander Calder. Explains that students created drawings of ballerinas, created sculptures in the style of Calder, and created sculptures of ballerinas. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Dance
Geist, Janet Marie – Arts & Activities, 2000
Discusses a fifth-grade sculpture project that uses a subtractive, rather than additive, technique. Students carve an animal sculpture from a block of simulated stone compound. Explains the process and how to make the simulated stone compound. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art
Young, Carol – Arts & Activities, 2001
Presents a project in which students used the modeling compound called Sculpey to create miniature creatures called "wee folk". States that the project students were required to learn two new techniques: (1) working in stages; and (2) using round wooden toothpicks as primary tools. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art, Educational Strategies
Cross, Kate – Arts & Activities, 1999
Describes a four-week art project for middle school students in which they gain an understanding of the sculptural process and how to carve wood in the Oaxacan (Mexico) folk art style. Explains that an artist-in-residence visited the students to demonstrate tools and types of wood cutting. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Artists
Hiller, Peter – Arts & Activities, 2002
Presents a junior high school student art project where three-dimensional art sculptures of surfing, snow boarding, or dirt biking were created. Discusses how the students created their three-dimensional works of art using a clay-slab technique. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Creativity