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Recent Lessons
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- Subway Graffiti Project
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- Keith Haring Semiotics Poster
- Introducing Keith Haring
- Discovering Keith Haring
- Haring Inspired Mural
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- Thinking about Drawings as Symbols
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Curriculum: Art
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.
Haring’s Heroes
Elementary school students from Arkansas create a collaborative, large-scale project inspired by Keith Haring's subway art.
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.
Stone Figurines
Sent in by a school in Germany, this class created the perfect Haring-style table settings.
Lesson Series
Children from the Netherlands explore a unit on Keith Haring, including Tee-shirt stamping and collaborative, mural-sized drawings.
Haring Inspired Wall Murals
Parent and student volunteers went to Greenfield Elementary School on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday to work together and paint Haring-inspired murals on the walls of the fourteen stairwell landings.
A Haring Holiday
Create Haring-inspired holiday ornaments with children using this fun and easy project sent in to us by a high school in Kansas.
Dancing Silhouettes
After a dance lesson about statues, these youngsters looked at Keith Haring pictures and drew their own silhouettes on the asphalt outside their school.