Students examine the artistic definition of "icon" and articulate its importance in the popular art of the border. They paint, draw, their favorite icon or design a new icon that represents an important aspect of border life.

Research the use of sand paintings in the Navajo tribe. Your students work together to design their own sand painting. They share their creation with the class describing what the symbols mean.

The Etruscans were a mighty civilization that living in what is now known as Tuscany. Discover their politics, military, writing system, and rulers of Rome through a visual presentation. The work is already done, all you need to do is...

Students create a symbol to represent their classroom community. In this community lesson plan, students discuss what their classroom community is like and create symbols in groups to present to the rest of the class.

Students build on what they know to make new discoveries. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.

Students draw on graph paper. In this geometry lesson, students review types of triangles and quadrilaterals. Students investigate geometric transformations, including translation, rotation and reflection. Students practice each...

This instructional activity will teach the students about how Mosaics are made and how they have been used in the past history and in modern times. Students will construct their own paper mosaics.

Since 2007, ArtWorks in Cincinnati, Ohio, has created more than 180 murals on walls in and around the city. With this site, you can take an armchair tour of the murals, which celebrate the history and culture of the area.

Odd Wall is on-line archive and gallery of the streets which documents and presents graffiti murals. The murals are simply catalogued by date photographed and all of the graffiti seems to be found in public locations.

SPARC is an arts center in Los Angeles that produces, preserves and conducts educational programs about community based public art works. If you live nearby you can get involved. Otherwise, be inspired by their work. The murals are...

Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco-known as Los tres grandes-cultivated an artistic style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution. They crafted epic murals on the walls of highly visible, public buildings...

Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's raised...

An image of the South Wall of the Detroit Industry Mural by Diego Rivera painted in 1932/3.

These eight churches of northern Moldavia, built from the late 15th century to the late 16th century, their external walls covered in fresco paintings, are masterpieces inspired by Byzantine art. They are authentic and particularly well...

An image of the North wall of Rivera's famous mural. A striking depiction of work through art.