| Making Self-Portraits |
Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
A psychologically investigative examination and corresponding lesson dissect the purpose and meaning of self-portaiture. |
| The Sky |
Melissa Ludwig, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
Students will create images of the sky that convey their moods and feelings. |
| Friends Mural |
Lara McBride |
A fun and easy, project that will leave your walls full of color and energy. |
| Add a Page to Love |
Jennifer Pendergast & Ms. Bessie |
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. |
| Dancing Silhouettes |
Monique Ducroux |
After a dance lesson about statues, these youngsters looked at Keith Haring pictures and drew their own silhouettes on the asphalt outside their school. |
| Street Art Project |
Kevin McGroary |
A low-budget, exciting way to explore the function and creative process of public art while gaining a deeper understanding of Haring's work. |
| LIVE OUT LOUD celebrates PRIDE WEEK at Washington Irving High School |
Leo Preziosi, Jr. |
High School students in the YMCA Teen Action Program at Washington Irving collaborated with Live Out Loud and professional artists, to celebrate the end of their PRIDE week by using art to express their ideas. |
| Subway Drawings |
Sandra Beyer |
Using Haring's Subway Drawings as a starting point, this exciting lesson offers an innovative way to create a spontaneous work process that students will love. |
| Haring Style Drawings |
Mark McCloskey |
Sent to us by one of our most active teachers, this project demonstrates the explorative fun that students can have with Keith Haring inspired imagery. |
| Self Portraits from the Future |
Melissa Ludwig, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
Students will make craypa self portraits of what they might look like in 100 years. |
| Chalk Drawings |
Chan Bliss |
Students from an elementary school in Tampa, Florida visited an exhibition of Keith Haring's work at the local Tampa Museum of Art and then made their own Haring-inspired work! |
| Lady Liberty |
Maura Walsh |
This wonderful project celebrates freedom and Keith Haring at the same time, while helping students to understand what makes this country so unique and special. |
| Drawing Movement |
Jeri Turtle |
This local New York City school used Keith Haring's art to inspire a lesson on expressing movement in drawing. |
| Drawings & Collage |
Valerie Kerwin |
Sent in by the YMCA in Sarasota, FLorida, this lesson explores the use of multiple figures in the medium of collage. |
| Subway Drawings & Semiotics |
Wan Ling Li, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
Using Haring's Subway Drawings as a starting point, this project emphasizes the use of personal icons and symbols through traditional drawing as well as computer-generated graphics. |
| Keith Haring Art Work |
Mark McCloskey |
These students from the UK learned all about Keith Haring before they began their own interpretive pastel posters. Afterwards, they wrote their opinions, reflecting on the imagery and their knowledge of Keith Haring. They posted it on their school web site for everyone to enjoy. |
| Creating a Cranimal |
Marie Antonelli, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
THIS LESSON USES THE NYC BLUEPRINT LEARNING STANDARDS.
Elementary students design their own mix and matched animals, using a lesson framework that emphasizes transformation.
This lesson accompanies the following additional lessons:
"Clay for Fun"
"Cranimals in 3D"
"Paper Sculpture Habitats" |
| Subway Art |
Megan McDonald |
A great starting point for a large scale project, this lesson uses simple materials, and optimizes their boldness and beauty. Inspired by Haring's early graffiti work in the subways of NYC, these students took off with their own innovative and creative ideas. |
