Students will compile research on a selected two-dimensional artist and create a well curated spread, detailing this artist's style, typical form, medium of choice, and examples of this work in their sketchbook. After completing this research, students will create a work of their own, inspired by and utilizing the typical form, media type, and style of their artist research. Students will look into their chosen artists specific style and process, paying specific attention to how the artist uses different elements of art/principles of design in their body of work. Students will then create a piece of art inspired by their artist, using the elements and principles they noted in their research. 

Mathematics and Art intersect in numerous ways. We will be focusing on Math’s intersections with Art in regard to Pattern, “Fit”, and Balance. Students will experiment with compositions that utilize these three intersections between disciplines to create their final piece. Their work will be 11x17, utilizing chalk pastel, colored pencil, and india ink. Students will study the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia Delaunay, Robbery Delaunay, and Beatriz Milhazes. 

This curriculum focuses on teaching students’ western papermaking processes using sustainable studio practices. We will focus on utilizing natural fibers, collecting and reusing water, and attempting to create a zero-waste environment in our studio. Upon the completion of this curriculum, students will be able to cook fibers, beat fibers, pull sheets, press sheets, transfer paper into a dry box, and understand contemporary media practices of papermaking. Students will understand the basic science behind papermaking and have a larger vocabulary that sustains conversation with a contemporary papermaker. Students will also have the knowledge that would allow them to set up their own contemporary papermaking studio, should they choose to pursue this media outside of my classroom. Themes include sustainability, consumerism, recycling, reusing, conservation, plant biology, chemistry, and studio practices. My teaching will be influenced theoretically, primarily through the ideals and constructs of constructivism as an educational standing point. I will also reference the choice-based art education and studio thinking models while creating lessons and learning environments for my students.