African Art and Personal Adornment: Jewelry

Class members get a chance to practice the art of Mehndi as they use markets to apply patterns to a latex glove.

Young scholars create an African mask. In this African art instructional activity, students use Balsa-Foam and acrylic paints to construct an African mask. Young scholars carve out the facial features and seal it with a coat of Gesso.

Pupils explore the concept of personal adornment. They view and compile a list examples and compare personal adornment in American culture to that in African culture.

Students examine the concept of beauty. They write about what they think is beautiful and compare their ideas to those of others.

Students create African Personal Power Figure boxes describing how they view themselves and discuss what personal traits are important to the preservation and improvement of a civilization.

Practice symmetry and patterns with this Mid-Eastern art project. Your class will create beautiful, reflective mosaics that will brighten up the classroom! A list of necessary materials is included.

Students search for and sort ideas for content in their artwork, explore African art, and create and assemble a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay half way between soft and leather hard.

To better understand the cultural achievements of the Harlem Renaissance and become familiar with its major figures, class members examine a painting by Aaron Douglas and a poem by Langston Hughes and compare how the artists develop...

Children learn by doing. Here, they discuss cultural uses of containers, coil and slab techniques, functional aesthetics, and the principles of art and design. The entire process for making a coil pot is fully described here to make the...

Painting, printmaking, collage, calligraphy, and markmaking all in one work? Welcome to the world of Margot Voorhies Thompson. After viewing a PBS video about Thompson, emergent artists are encouraged to keep journals and sketchbooks,...