All the Arts

Arts Careers, Grades 3-12 Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts information and activities. Compare the career descriptions with your talents and interests. Start planning for your future.

Holidays through the Arts, Grades 3-5 Find out about Chinese New Year by creating a Pageant. Use a skeleton dance and puppet show to understand Dias de los Muertos. Create a West African Dance to explore Kwanzaa. For students in grades three through six.

Drama/Theatre

Theatre Book, Grades 3-8 A collection of definitions, explanations, and activities for creating and putting on plays and making videotapes.

Community Drama, Grades 3 – 4 A unit to understand Tempe – or your town – by creating scenes and videotaping them.

World Community Drama, Grades 3-5 Create scenes about China or San Francisco. Make a model of a pagoda and the Golden Gate Bridge. (More communities to follow.)

Visual Arts

Celebrating Excellence in Ceramics, High School This program invites you to explore the big idea of excellence and explore judgment, proportion, and pattern as you investigate ceramic art. There are three lessons: what makes ceramics good, how ceramists work with proportions and profiles; how ceramists finish their work with a focus on patterns.

Explorations in Art: Expressionism/Painting, a middle and high school unit by Dr. Mary Stokrocki. The four lessons explore: 1) Art Criticism: Description, Analysis, Technique, Interpretation, Judgment, 2) Oral Art History, 3) Creating Art: exploring expressionism -- the expression of your feelings and ideas -- by painting with your computer, and 4) Aesthetics.

Navajo Pottery, a middle and high school unit by Faith Clover and Alan Jim. The five lessons and several assignments include: 1) Introduction to Navajo Pottery and Its Makers, 2) Clay, 3) The Philosophy of Navajo Pottery Making, 4) Three Basic Pottery Techniques, and 5) Firing Pots the Navajo Way.

Political Cartooning for middle and high school students. This unit, based on material from Larry Woodson and Dr. Stokrocki, has three lessons that help you learn about: 1) Cartoons in Context -- their history and purpose, 2) Criticism of Political Cartoons, and 3) Creating a Political Cartoon.

Line Unit, middle and high school Here is a short unit for you to experiment with the art elements -- line, shape and form -- and the art principle, pattern.