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Lessons by Title
Pop Shop 2 – Etching and Woodcutting
Learn about printmaking using Haring's imagery as a starting point.
Relationship Sculptures
Students examine and create clay sculptures based on a special relationship they have.
Pop Shop 1 – Symbol Making
Students will learn about Keith Haring's use of symbols by examining his bold, direct lines and images and create their own.
Overcoming Oppression
This lesson allows students to explore ways that artists have expressed feelings of oppression, and provides students with a voice to express themes of empowerment as a response.
Hip Hop Dancers
New York City High school students explore movement and performance in this lesson, which explores urban vernacular dance.
Flipbook Animation
High School students learn that movement is created by using a very fast sequence of photographs to enable them to make their own cartoon flip books.
Exploring Artistic Influences
Students explore their own personal artistic influences and make a work that is inspired by this connection.
Challenging Gender Roles
High school students examine Post War American gender roles and then create their own collages from magazine and newspaper clippings.
A Haring Production
This 7th grade class designed a stage set for their local job convention. Using Haring's bold and colorful style, they created emblems of various different occupations on large, free standing wood boards that were placed around the stage.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
After being introduced to selected pieces of Keith Haring's work, students brainstormed for words and concepts that they wished to illustrate in a Haring-esque style. Attention was given to color, composition, and how well the word was illustrated by the student-artists' depiction of it.
Haring Art Truck
Students from this high school in Ohio painted a pickup truck inspired by Keith Haring's style.