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!