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Recent Lessons
- Keith Haring Murals in San Sebastián
- Keith Haring Murals
- Come To Know Keith Haring
- Organ Systems Mural
- City as Canvas: Artist Spotlight
- Printing with Objects
- Mural Making in the Style Of Keith Haring
- Subway Graffiti Project
- T-shirt Designer
- Keith Haring Semiotics Poster
- Introducing Keith Haring
- Discovering Keith Haring
- Haring Inspired Mural
- All Bottled Up!
- Thinking about Drawings as Symbols
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Age/Grade: Above 14
Street Art Project
A low-budget, exciting way to explore the function and creative process of public art while gaining a deeper understanding of Haring's work.
Across Curriculum
A wonderful lesson sent in by a school in England that helps students examine and discuss art while developing their own fun and silly essays.
Snapshots
Inspired by work Haring explored throughout his life, this project asks students to photograph one another and reflect upon what they see both externally and internally.
Questions
A writing lesson that asks children to determine questions to elicit interesting and revealing biographies of other children.
Posters
Using examples of Keith's own progressive posters as a springboard, students are encouraged to create their own messages in the form of a public poster.
Pictures
Usually lessons take a class through a project, this lesson takes a class through reflection and display, a great complement to any activity.
Flip Books
This lesson, similar to our Morphs lesson, is designed for children to examine the visual quality of movement in Haring's work, emphasizing sequence and time.
Bio
Along with defining Keith's goals and strategies for his life as an artist, children will consider their own aspirations and strategies necessary to attain their goals.
Art & The Berlin Wall
This lesson, developed by a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, explores the relationship between Cold War politics, the people who were affected by it, and the artists who examined it. Using the Berlin Wall as a focal point, students have the opportunity to create their own "walls".
Keith Haring Painting Project
Long Island high school students explore a painting project inspired by Scholastic Magazine's November 2007 feature on Keith Haring's work.
Haring Cooperative Quilt
Students work together to make a quilt inspired by the life and vision of Keith Haring.
Haring All Over
A lesson that focuses on pattern and design through line and color. The teacher, a fellow Haring fan, used many of the images on our site to inspire her students. The finished products were photographed and made into a book.