Art Lessons in the Mercury News

CSMA and "Mercury News in Education" are excited to present another installment of art lessons that classroom teachers and/or parents can do with elementary & middle school children. Each year has a different theme. This year's series titled Art from the Past: Lessons for Social Studies offers activities which correspond to the grade 4-8 California social studies curriculum.

ART from the Past:
LESSONS for Social Studies

Athletes
On the Go
People & Portraits
Nature All Around
Home & Hearth
Telling Stories
Unusual Animals
War & Peace
Looking Good
Monsters & Creatures

A WORLD OF ART - Art projects from around the globe.

Central America - 2/28/06
China - 3/7/06
South America - 3/14/06
Southeast Asia - 3/21/06
Eastern Europe - 3/28/06
Japan - 4/4/06
Africa - 4/25/06
Mexico - 5/2/06
India - 5/9/06
Middle East - 5/16/06

A Tribute to Women Artists (Copyright issues prevent us from offering pdfs of these lessons.)

Mary Cassatt - 3/24/05
Georgia O'Keeffe - 4/7/05
Joan Brown - 4/14/05
Carmen Garza - 4/21/05
Beth Van Hoesen - 4/28/05

Celebration of African & African-American Art

African Masks - 2/3/05
African Textiles - 2/10/05
African Quilts - 2/17/05
Romare Bearden - 3/3/05
William Johnson - 3/10/05