Guess the Artist

"Guess the Artist" is a guessing game I created after being inspired by a 6th Grade Science teacher's "Guess the Vegetable" game (he placed different obscure vegetables on top of a box and allowed students to guess what the vegetable was).  Every couple weeks I would post a new famous artwork in the hallway outside the art room and allow staff and students to place their guesses of which artist created that artwork. Students and staff were very motivated to discover the correct answer. Research was encouraged :)  One student was selected (from all who guessed the correct artist) to win a prize.

Master Artwork Reproductions

My gifted and talented students chose a master artwork, broke it into sections, and each reproduced that part of the artwork using the media of their choice. The squares were all assembled together when finished.

7th Graders reproduction of Katsushika Hokusi's The Great Wave

6th Graders reproduction of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory

5th Grader's reproduction of Edvard Munch's The Scream

8th Grader's reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night

Bottle Cap Mosaic

Plastic bottle cap mosaic created by my after school art intramural using approximately 2,532 plastic caps.

Table Artists

There are five tables (seating 4 students each) in the art room. I assigned a famous artist to each table. When I needed to speak to the students about which tables were working really well or which tables had more cleaning up to do, I would use the table artist’s name. For example: “Salvador Dali, you have a lot of paper still under your table. Please clean it up!” Or "Frida Kahlo, you all are working really well together." This technique doesn’t single out an one particular student and it encourages all the students at the table to work collaboratively. An added bonus is that the students become very familiar with these artists' names!

Student Art Show at Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, ME

35 of my students' artworks were selected to be a part of the student art show at the Barn Galley in Ogunquit. This was an incredible show displaying artwork from many schools in southern Maine.

8th Grade Chalk Pastel Portraits of people they admire

Right side: 7th Grade Surrealistic Collages

5th Grade Cubist Oil Pastel Portraits

7th Grade Monochromatic Self Portraits

8th Grade recycled CD sculpture

Recycled CD sculptures

Top row: 8th grade Nonobjective Designs
Middle row: 6th Grade Observational Shoe Drawings
Bottom row: Two Point Perspective Drawings