My Welcome Backpack
To welcome our 6th-grade classes and get to know the new students better, we proposed a special icebreaker activity: drawing a backpack filled with passions, … Read more
Futurist Olympics: Felt-tip Pen Version
Inspired by the works of Giacomo Balla, such as The Hand of the Violinist or Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, we explored the … Read more
Futurist Olympics: Capturing Speed
Inspired by the works of Giacomo Balla, such as The Violinist’s Hands or Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, our 8th-grade classes explored the … Read more
Inspired by Monet: Water Lilies with Pastels
Monet’s Water Lilies with artist-grade soft pastels In this workshop, we explored the chromatic universe of Claude Monet, focusing on his famous Water Lilies series. … Read more
Black and White lines Landscape with Gold Sun
With the sixth-grade classes, we held a workshop on one of the fundamental elements of art: the line. Our goal was to transform a simple … Read more
Complementary color drawing inspired by Alighiero Boetti
ALIGHIERO BOETTI is an Italian artist active from the 60s to the 90s. His most famous works are the TAPESTRIES in which the artist has … Read more
The Dolomites: UNESCO World Heritage Site
In the field of Civic and Citizenship Education we talked about education in respect and valorization of Cultural Heritage and we saw how, in cultural … Read more
The Portrait in Modern Art: Small Copies
We have already experienced how useful it is to copy styles and techniques from artists, this time with the Year 7Th students we studied the … Read more
Giotto: “The Flight into Egypt” Poster
After studying Giotto and his works, especially those of the Scrovegni Chapel, we created a large collaborative POSTER, where each student tried to copy the … Read more
Pattern Castles
We created these mixed media drawings to experiment with various techniques: creating black and white patterns with different tools and painting the background with shaded … Read more
Illustrated poetry
With sixth grade students we did this interdisciplinary work in collaboration with the Italian teachers and with my art colleague Maria Noemi Demaio. First, the … Read more
Abstract drawings from microscope
Discussing ABSTRACTISM with 8th grade students we understood how there can be an abstract PAINTING but also an abstract SCULPTURE, or a PHOTOGRAPH that does … Read more