9-12
FULL DAY
Acrylic Landscape Painting
Visual Arts
Students discover why artists today are inspired by the outdoors. Investigate a range of landscape based works, contemporary and historical, while discussing the importance of the power of place and the purpose of making art.
• Engage in outdoor sketching activities inspired by Lake Ontario and the waterfront community outside our studio windows
• Learn a range of landscape painting techniques: discover colour and its application, the importance of tonal values in a work, and elements and principals of design
Curriculum connections:
Visual Arts (Grades 9 – 12)
9-12
FULL DAY
Collograph Printmaking
Visual Arts
Museum of Inuit Art and Soft Linoleum Relief Printmaking
www.miagallery.ca
Rediscover texture through the art of collograph: design, create, produce a series of coloured prints.
• Learn about Picasso and Braque's contributions to the evolution of printmaking
in the 20th century
• Learn how contemporary artists use materials today to create collograph
• Create a collage plate using a variety of low relief textures and materials, exploring texture and form
• Learn about this history of printmaking
Curriculum connections:
Visual Arts (Grades 9 – 12)
9-12
FULL DAY
Contemporary Clay Vessels
Visual Arts
Full day studio workshop!
Explore the world of contemporary ceramic clay vessels: students visit the Craft Department’s Ceramic Studio for an inside look at what's being produced right here at Harbourfront Centre, then design and create etched surface clay vessels.
• Learn hand-building techniques
• Draw inspiration from traditional and contemporary hieroglyphs and other cultural iconography
Curriculum connections:
Visual Arts (Grades 9 – 12)
9-12
FULL DAY
Lino Printmaking
Visual Arts
Museum of Inuit Art and Soft Linoleum Relief Printmaking
www.miagallery.ca
Discover the beauty of contemporary Inuit printmaking with a trip to the Inuit Museum of Art in the Queens Quay Terminal, then, in the studio component, students make their own print inspired by their trip
• Learn the printmaking tools and techniques to design, carve and print a small series of
lino-block prints on canvas
• Discuss notions of self and community and its relation to Inuit Art. Students will then
reflect on these themes in developing the content of their own printmaking piece
Curriculum connections:
Visual Arts (Grades 9 – 12)
9-12
FULL DAY
The Artist Book
Visual Arts
Full day option: pair this programme with a reading at YoungIFOA or ALOUD: a Celebration for Young Readers
Discover the rich art of books and contemporary bookmaking; learn and use vocabulary specific
to the books arts.
• Use contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object
• Design, construct, and decorate your own hand-made artist book
• Discuss the importance of journaling, sketching or writing
Curriculum connections:
Visual Arts (Grades 9 – 12)
