That's what we believe at Artsy Elementary - and it's at the heart of our lessons. This curriculum is designed to inspire and allow students to experience art in its many forms while experimenting with a variety of art materials.
Everyone Can Be An Artist
Artsy Elementary is a full art program for your Elementary school, with lessons for grades PK/UTK - 5th. Our curriculum provides on-demand instruction, instructor guide and step-by-step presentation slides for all lessons. You provide the volunteers and we give them the tools they need to easily and successfully bring art to the classroom. Instructors have the option to follow a script and have information and project steps provided on the slides - making it easy for people of all teaching experience to lead lessons.
Easy Instruction: Step-by-Step Slides
The Artsy Way: Cultural Context and Diverse Artists
Lessons include contextually relevant information about cultures as well as a variety of artists. In learning how art relates to a culture, we are better able to understand each other and ourselves. To help show that everyone can create art, lessons feature artists of all ages and backgrounds, including artists with disabilities and artists who are similar in age to students.
Lesson Components
Lessons are structured to introduce the art element(s), explore examples of the element(s) in a selected art piece and then create an inspired art piece that is unique to each student.
Art Elements & Styles
Art elements are explained at age-appropriate levels and are expanded on for older grades.
Art concepts include:
- Line & Shape
- Texture
- Pattern
- Color
- Composition & Form
- Shading & Tone
- Movement
- Contrast
Art styles include:
- Still Life
- Line Art
- Pointillism
- Abstract
- Pictograph
- Chigiri-e
- Perspective
- Impressionism
Featured Artists & Cultures
In addition to famous artists, lessons include not-so-known artists. Child artists, local artists, and artists with disabilities are featured in our lessons to help show students that anyone can be an artist.
Cultural Context
When learning about a featured culture or region, our curriculum is intentionally crafted to include only general information that is relevant to the lesson art or regional fun facts. Cultures/regions are discussed is to provide a deeper understanding of the origin of a piece of art or style, as well as allow students to see themselves in the art and foster appreciation for others.
Some cultures or regions covered include:
- Southwest United States
- Norway
- India
- Morocco
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Africa
- China
- Vietnam
Art Steps
Lesson slides provide step-by-step visuals as well as on-screen text to help deliver lesson content. We make teaching easy and accessible for Lesson Leaders of any art background or skill level.
The process for each lesson is broken up into easy-to-do steps, shown on the slides.
Lessons have an intentional order:
- Introduction to the art project
- Art concept definitions and examples
- Discussion of relevant artist/culture
- Simple steps and visuals for warm-up and/or art piece process
- Celebrating each student's art and individuality
- Clean-up
- Review and reflection