Art at Your Fingertips
Keeping Art Alive In Our Schools!
Now in its 35th year Art At Your Fingertips, the Art Center’s visual arts outreach program, brings standards-based education to our local schools.
Each of the five Art At Your Fingertips projects combines art techniques, art history and aesthetics in lessons that meet California visual arts standards for all elementary grade levels. In monthly workshops, the artist who developed each project teaches the 400+ parent volunteers who, in turn, teach students DK-5th grade at every public and private school on the Peninsula.
2011-2012 Projects
Mexican Tinwork Tiles by Heather Hovard
Building on a four hundred year tradition of tin working, students will create brilliantly colored metal tiles in the style of traditional Mexican folk art. Students will learn metal tooling techniques as they explore the rich art and culture of Mexico.
Larger Than Life by Lee-Jean Lin
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) and her larger-than-life-sized paintings of flowers are the inspiration for this printmaking project. By transferring a contour line drawing onto a Styrofoam plate, students will make a monoprint of a flower using tempera paint on black paper.
Dappled Sunlight by Rebecca Jarus
This acrylic landscape painting project employs the pointillism technique made famous by Post-Impressionist painter George Seurat (French, 1859-1891). Using an application of colored dots, students will create the effect of sunlight diffused through tree branches.
Imagining Magritte by Paula Irish
Surrealist Rene Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) and his painting The Listening Room are the inspiration for this mixed-media project. Students€ preconceived notions of perception and reality will be challenged while they learn an important lesson in one-point perspective.
Peninsula en Plein Air by Annemarie Wargin
Since the late-nineteenth century, California has been a Mecca for artists inspired by the French Impressionists to paint out of doors or en plein air. Students will be introduced to this ongoing tradition while they create their very own acrylic painting of the Palos Verdes Peninsula's picturesque coastline.
Project Created by Annemarie Wargin.
