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Recent Lessons
- Keith Haring Murals in San Sebastián
- Keith Haring Murals
- Come To Know Keith Haring
- Organ Systems Mural
- City as Canvas: Artist Spotlight
- Printing with Objects
- Mural Making in the Style Of Keith Haring
- Subway Graffiti Project
- T-shirt Designer
- Keith Haring Semiotics Poster
- Introducing Keith Haring
- Discovering Keith Haring
- Haring Inspired Mural
- All Bottled Up!
- Thinking about Drawings as Symbols
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Subject: Drawing
Painting with a Message
This lesson focuses on helping kids help themselves and other kids by painting with a message in the style of Keith Haring. It empowers them and teaches that their art can be a source of hope and information for others.
Window Mural
A teacher's account of her "Nutcracker Mural" done in the style of Keith Haring's characters in a local storefront window.
Keith Haring Olympics
Students from Florida create a public mural of figures participating in an Olympic sports, in the style of Keith Haring.
Street Art Project
A low-budget, exciting way to explore the function and creative process of public art while gaining a deeper understanding of Haring's work.
Across Curriculum
A wonderful lesson sent in by a school in England that helps students examine and discuss art while developing their own fun and silly essays.
Ten
Using Keith Haring's book, TEN as a starting point, children will learn to quantify and visually depict numbers.
Small
Using Keith Haring's book, BIG, Children will write and illustrate all the words they know for the word small.
Questions
A writing lesson that asks children to determine questions to elicit interesting and revealing biographies of other children.
Posters
Using examples of Keith's own progressive posters as a springboard, students are encouraged to create their own messages in the form of a public poster.
Flip Books
This lesson, similar to our Morphs lesson, is designed for children to examine the visual quality of movement in Haring's work, emphasizing sequence and time.
Art & The Berlin Wall
This lesson, developed by a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, explores the relationship between Cold War politics, the people who were affected by it, and the artists who examined it. Using the Berlin Wall as a focal point, students have the opportunity to create their own "walls".
Keith Haring Painting Project
Long Island high school students explore a painting project inspired by Scholastic Magazine's November 2007 feature on Keith Haring's work.