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Martha Brown Middle School

Grade 6

BIG IDEAS: Place, Identity

Focus Artists: Banksy, FUA Krew, Lady Pink, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wall Therapy Artists, Charley Harper, Stefan Bucher, Gothic Art, Jean Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Emma Larson, Sara Khan, Claire Cowie, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer

Final Artworks: Street (Word) Art, Watercolor Landscapes, Endangered Species Portraits, Explosion Books, Ceramic Gargoyles

Victor Junior-Senior High

Grades 8-12

BIG IDEA: Identity 

Essential Question: How can we represent a characteristic about ourselves?

Focus Artists: Pre-Colombian Artists, Megan Coyle, Charley Harper, Patrick Bremer, Eileen Downes

Final Artworks: Ceramic Animal Vessels, Magazine Animal Collages

Saturday Art School

Grades 6-7

BIG IDEA: Home

Essential Question: How do we define home?

Focus Artist(s): Various watercolorists 

Final Artwork(s): Symbolic prints, watercolor maps

School of the Arts

Grades 8-12

BIG IDEA: Dreams & Nightmares

Essential Question: How do our dreams connect to the subconscious?

Focus Artists: Joshua Hoffine, Arthur Tress, Pablo Picasso, Ronen Goldman, Samantha Goss, Maggie Taylor

Final Artworks: Triptych consisting of digital photographs

West Irondequoit High School

Grades 9-12

BIG IDEA: Stories

Stand alone lesson: Students created blackout poetry that told a narrative and was accompanied by aesthetic choices. 

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