Sonoma Community Center

OUR MISSION: Cultivate a vibrant community through extraordinary creative, cultural and learning experiences.

The Sonoma Community Center is a member-supported, not-for-profit organization since 1953, and is housed on the campus of the historic Sonoma Grammar School. For over six decades, the

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Becoming an Artist

Program description

Becoming an Artist | 1st-3rd grade | (6) 1 hour sessions | virtual or in-person

In 6 - 1 hour sessions, students will learn how to use lines to create movement; make patterns to emphasize textures; understand the relationship between color and emotions; and transform unlikely materials into a culminating art piece that utilizes all four learned themes. Teaching artists will use games and

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Becoming an Artist | 1st-3rd grade | (6) 1 hour sessions | virtual or in-person

In 6 – 1 hour sessions, students will learn how to use lines to create movement; make patterns to emphasize textures; understand the relationship between color and emotions; and transform unlikely materials into a culminating art piece that utilizes all four learned themes. Teaching artists will use games and curriculum integration such as math and language comprehension to solidify understanding. Students will learn new vocabulary to create, verbalize and analyze the material and their own artistic ideas while collaborating in conversations.

Lesson 1 | Lines

Theme: How lines are used as an expressive tool in art
Medium: Yarn line drawings
Goal: Students will be introduced to the most basic element of art- lines and how lines can help determine motion, direction and energy.
Integration: Speaking and listening

Lesson 2 | Patterns and Texture

Theme: How pattern and texture add to the look and feel of artwork. ● Medium: Clay
Goal: Students will learn to see patterns in art and nature and how to use texture to add feeling to art. They will use math concepts to identify and create AB, AAB and ABC patterns.
Integration: Math

Lesson 3 | Colorful Emotion

Theme: How art conveys emotions
Medium: Monochrome magazine collage
Goal: Students will understand that color in art can communicate how the artist is feeling.
Curriculum Integration: Adjectives

Lesson 4 | Trash?! Nope, it’s art.

Theme: Using students’ imagination to see how unlikely materials can be transformed into art.
Medium: Toilet paper roll sculptures
Goal: Students will learn what it means to throw something away and how items destined for the trash can be reimagined into something else.
Integration: Science

Lesson 5 | Culminating Project

Theme: Self portraits
Medium: Mixed media
Goal: Students will use the four learned design elements to create their self portrait
Integration: Speaking and listening

Lesson 6 | Gallery Opening

Theme: I am an artist, you are an artist!
Goal: Students will learn how to write an artist statement and talk about the What, How and Why when communicating their artwork.
Integration: Speaking and listening

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Booking / scheduling contact

Lexi Bakkar

Lexi@sonomacommunitycenter.org

Program Detail

Program type: Workshop/Class

Artistic Discipline: Visual Arts

Subject: Visual Arts

Population served: Grade 01, Grade 02, Grade 03

Bilingual: No

Available dates:

Anytime

Available times:

Anytime

Max number of students: 30

Length of program: 1

Location(s):

Free

Qualifications

Two or more years of educational programming experience: Yes

Connects to State and or Common Core Curriculum Standards: Yes

Provides tools to assess student learning (workshops and residencies): Yes

Conducts ongoing assessments of program quality: Yes

Provides scholarship and reduced fees: Yes

Maintains general liability insurance: Yes

Performs criminal background checks on staff with youth contact: Yes

Criminal background check(s) available: Yes

Three letters of recommendation / references available: Yes