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Last week I was invited to teach an art lesson at a local high school. Given that it was on such short notice, I decided to use a modified version of a lesson developed at RISD with fellow MAT Amanda Gross. This assignment was designed to make drawing more approachable to students at all levels by focusing on humor instead of realistic rendering.
This past Monday I had the opportunity to teach a Media Arts lesson to seventh grade students at Q2L in NYC. The lesson I taught used animation as a context for breaking down movements. Students used their own bodies to analyze dance moves and then reanimate them using stop motion animation. Working together to animate one single clay figurine, each group added ten frames of animation to the piece. The end result was a collaborative animated dance.
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