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Recent Lessons
- Hip to be Square
- Empowering “Crack Is Wack” Mural
- Musical Collages
- Remote Control Grid Drawings
- Environmentally Friendly Fence
- Neighborhood Mini-Mural
- Big Draw Day
- Graffiti – Tribute to Promote Reading
- Street Art and Hopscotch
- Painting on Aluminum Foil
- Graffiti Art
- Jumping Kids Art
- Inspirational Pop Art
- Drawing with Wire
- Keith Haring and Graffiti
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Age/Grade: Above 14
Empowering “Crack Is Wack” Mural
Art activities incorporated in the process of creating a Keith Haring inspired mural that went up the walls, on the windows and over the doors. This mural expanded upon the dangers of drugs and abuse.
Big Draw Day
As part of The Big Draw, a day of artist-lead drawing projects at Ivydale School in South London, illustrator Garry Parsons lead the Year 5 group in transforming the school reception area into Keith's POP SHOP, complete with house music and Haringesque badges to give away.
WE LOVE KEITH HARING!
Graffiti – Tribute to Promote Reading
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Keith Haring’s death, the Art department of Lauro Ikastola School in the Basque Country in Spain, recently organized a graffiti competition to promote reading. Students worked on the winning idea for three days
Street Art and Hopscotch
The project was split into several lessons. At the beginning the pupils got some information about Keith Haring We created some colorful Keith Haring paintings on the break court in front of our school. There are now two big paintings, where the children can do hop-games. The other paintings show typical school subjects like art.
Graffiti Art
Students learn about Keith Haring and graffiti art then they make their own work on a vinyl tarp inspired by his style.
Drawing with Wire
Students at PS183 in New York, learn how to draw with wire, as part of the bodies in motion workshop
Keith Haring and Graffiti
Students from this Montessori school in Canada studied Keith Haring and then worked collaboratively to make several murals, custom t-shirts, and sculptures, all exploring the theme of "Peace, love and the environment."
Clay Portrait Project
Using traditional portraiture methods of proportion, students explore and combine their knowledge with Haring-style, expressive, and colorful aesthetics to produce vibrant clay masks.
To download facial proportions sheet go to Visual Aids, use link on the right.
Studying Mural: “Crack is Wack”
Haring's 2-sided mural on a handball court at 128th Street & 2nd Avenue in NYC overlooks the FDR drive. A public site that has brought much acknowledgement since it was painted in 1986. This lesson, organized collaboratively with The Children's Storefront gives local students the opportunity to examine and reflect on one of Haring's most influential landmarks.
Bus Stop Mosaic
This 8th grade class from Germany was invited to creat a doublesided mosaic for a local community bus stop.
The Keith Haring Car
During this lesson the children learned about Keith Haring and what kind of artwork he created. Then they had fun expressing painting an entire car in Haring-inspired imagery!
Haring Mosaic
These 8th graders from a town in Germany were invited to create a public mosaic for their local town hall in Bullay. Inspired by Keith Haring, the students chose bold, colorful figures to depict their message.