Age/Grade: Middle School

Learn about printmaking using Haring's imagery as a starting point.

Students examine and create clay sculptures based on a special relationship they have.

Students will make casts of their own symbols using clay and plaster.

Students will learn about Keith Haring's use of symbols by examining his bold, direct lines and images and create their own.

New York City High school students explore movement and performance in this lesson, which explores urban vernacular dance.

High School students learn that movement is created by using a very fast sequence of photographs to enable them to make their own cartoon flip books.

Students explore their own personal artistic influences and make a work that is inspired by this connection.

This 7th grade class designed a stage set for their local job convention. Using Haring's bold and colorful style, they created emblems of various different occupations on large, free standing wood boards that were placed around the stage.

After being introduced to selected pieces of Keith Haring's work, students brainstormed for words and concepts that they wished to illustrate in a Haring-esque style. Attention was given to color, composition, and how well the word was illustrated by the student-artists' depiction of it.

Students from this high school in Ohio painted a pickup truck inspired by Keith Haring's style.