National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
EL Education
El Education: Photographic Self Portraits
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...
EL Education
El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines
Eleventh grade students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego California are the authors of this book: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes & Heroines. To create this collection of essays each student reflected on...
PBS
Pbs: Thomas Eakins (Lessons About the ?American Rembrandt?) [Pdf]
Find four lesson plans developed for the PBS documentary "Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life" about the life and work of the man who would become known as the ?American Rembrandt.? The lessons touch on all the essential qualities of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Look at Me!
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages pupils to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...