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- 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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Curriculum: Art
Decoding Haring’s Symbols
A lesson in yarn painting sent in by a teacher from New Jersey. Support tools such as the video, "Drawing the Line: a Portrait of Keith Haring" were used and discussed.
Hip Hop Dance Cut-Outs
Emphasizing collaboration, this teacher brought in music that Keith Haring worked to when he was making art and helped her students create a mural using it as inspiration.
Pendants
A lesson that allows students to design a symbol and challenges them to transform their designs into sculpture & wearable art.
Big Hat People
Influenced by Keith Haring's book, BIG, this lesson explores clothing and the adjectives we use to describe and differentiate them.
Marbling a la Haring
Using the process of paper marbling, this teacher has found a way to help students deconstruct and compose their own abstract compositions.
Cut-Out Figures
Combining the standard early-childhood project of full size traced self-portraits and the work of Keith Haring, this lesson adds a refreshing variation to an old classic.
Monkey Puzzle
This lesson was produced by a university student majoring in Primary Education. The children will learn about Keith Haring and his work and create inspired work in different materials.
Keith Haring and Aborignal Art
Inspired by both Haring's line and the artwork of the indigenous people of Australia, Aborigines, the students from this school in Texas created distinctly patterned portraits using markers and paint.
Virtual Figure Sculptures
A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring, and an opportunity for students to design and build their own paper figure sculptures and envision them anywhere they want!
Clay Alphabet Sculpture Scenes
A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring and an opportunity for students to sculpt their own clay letters!
3D Paper-Edge Figure Sculptures
A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring and an opportunity for students to design and build their own paper figure sculptures!
Pieces of Peace
Middle School students from St. Petersburg, Florida, were asked to draw a picture inspired by the work of Keith Haring. The pictures represent world issues that affect their lives. The pictures were later combined to make a 6 foot painted puzzle, and put on display at the Florida Holocaust Museum.