Art-to-Go
Transform your classroom into an art studio by signing up for Art-to-Go!
With schools sacrificing art education due to budget concerns, the Riverside Art Museum is proud to help bring art back into the classroom.
Each Art-to-Go curriculum (Explorations for K-2nd, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, or Mixed Media) meets the Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for California public schools and is adapted for specific grade levels. The cost for each curriculum is $175 for two lessons of one hour and fifteen minutes each.
Our trained art instructors will come to your classroom with all necessary supplies and conduct these wonderful art lessons for your class. RAM instructors are not authorized to conduct our Art-to-Go programs at a school site unless there is a qualified school representative present who is responsible for student behavior and well-being.
Students will create pieces of art that they will be proud of and they will learn lots too! The number of students is limited to 34 maximum.
Art-to-Go is generously sponsored by:
Art-to-Go Visual Art Curriculum
Exploration K-2: Students create a collage featuring a horse after learning about Henri Matisse. The lesson is focused on color, shape, and movement. Students learn there are shapes in all living objects. Students are taught about composition, layering, balance, shapes, and form. In the second lesson, the students create a painting using shapes for flowers after looking at paintings by Diego Rivera. The students will review the abstract movement, composition, and layering, with a new focus on primary and secondary colors.
Mixed Media: Students create an abstract collage after learning about Henri Matisse. The lesson is focused on complementary colors and abstract movement. Students are taught about composition, layering, balance, shapes, form, unity, as well as positive and negative space. In the second lesson, the students create a watercolor painting using oil pastels as a resist like Friedrich Hundertwasser, the 20th century contemporary Austrian artist. Students review the abstract movement, composition, and layering, with a new focus on antipode, contrast, proportion, and color.
Painting: This course teaches students about landscapes by studying Gabriela Munter. Students learn about atmosphere, background, horizon line, the use of complementary colors, values of gray, and brushstroke. Students paint a landscape by dividing a flat surface with detail and value to create the illusion of space. In the second lesson, students will learn about Jasper Johns and his depiction of the four seasons. Students will learn about how paintings can tell a story by creating an autobiographical abstract piece of art. They envision and create their own painting of summer and add a cutout silhouette of themselves to their painting.
Sculpture: Students learn about positive and negative space by creating sculptures made from wire, foil, and clay. In this course, students study counter balance, contrast, form, and abstract versus realistic depictions in art. Students will view sculptures from the 16th to the 21st century. The focus is to create three-dimensional work using biomorphic and organic forms.
Drawing: The objective of this course is to have students experiment with lines by creating a drawing of a crazy bird and a raccoon. Students will learn about value, directional lines, movement, patterns, and repetition. They will look at different works of art that use only lines to create a picture.
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