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- Subway Graffiti Project
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- Keith Haring Semiotics Poster
- Introducing Keith Haring
- Discovering Keith Haring
- Haring Inspired Mural
- All Bottled Up!
- Thinking about Drawings as Symbols
- Dance Party
- Creation and Expression
- Vibrant Colors
- RNA Protein Strand Sculpture
- Teens in Action/Collaborative Paintings
- Hip to be Square
- Empowering “Crack Is Wack” Mural
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Haring All Over
A lesson that focuses on pattern and design through line and color. The teacher, a fellow Haring fan, used many of the images on our site to inspire her students. The finished products were photographed and made into a book.
Add a Page to Love
Using Keith Haring's book, LOVE, as a stepping stone, students are asked to create their own page to express love while challenging their use of color.
Graffiti Project
A combined dance/visual art week long project, accompanied with live music and ending with a sharing, for students on the autistic spectrum.
Decoding Haring’s Symbols
A lesson in yarn painting sent in by a teacher from New Jersey. Support tools such as the video, "Drawing the Line: a Portrait of Keith Haring" were used and discussed.
Hip Hop Dance Cut-Outs
Emphasizing collaboration, this teacher brought in music that Keith Haring worked to when he was making art and helped her students create a mural using it as inspiration.
Pendants
A lesson that allows students to design a symbol and challenges them to transform their designs into sculpture & wearable art.
Big Hat People
Influenced by Keith Haring's book, BIG, this lesson explores clothing and the adjectives we use to describe and differentiate them.
Marbling a la Haring
Using the process of paper marbling, this teacher has found a way to help students deconstruct and compose their own abstract compositions.
Cut-Out Figures
Combining the standard early-childhood project of full size traced self-portraits and the work of Keith Haring, this lesson adds a refreshing variation to an old classic.
Monkey Puzzle
This lesson was produced by a university student majoring in Primary Education. The children will learn about Keith Haring and his work and create inspired work in different materials.
Keith Haring and Aborignal Art
Inspired by both Haring's line and the artwork of the indigenous people of Australia, Aborigines, the students from this school in Texas created distinctly patterned portraits using markers and paint.