Embolden your creative spirit, embody your breath and extend the expressive possibilities of your voice! Dr. Tiffany Du Mouchelle leads a journey of vocal expansion and personal empowerment through improvisation, breath work, movement, sound meditation, and extended voice techniques.

In this series for teachers, we’ll look at how three artists use the newspaper in very different ways as inspiration for an artwork that links to Language Arts, Journalism, POV, Government, and Media.

In the book “Invisible Cities,” author Italo Calvino creates dozens of imagined cities based on Venice. This multi-media visual arts course uses New York City as its muse—offering the city as subject for students to develop imaginative strategies for visual creation, while exploring ideas of place.

An interdisciplinary exploration inspired by Alebrijes – the brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. Each lesson approaches the topic from a different perspective with activities from art and culture appreciation, drawing and coloring, puppetry, collage, and animation.

This is a series of lessons designed to help students identify and understand how traditional gender and sexual identity stereotypes dominate professional dance training and performance as well as how this rigid structure affects LGBTQIA+ dancers.

The goal of this project is to provide public middle school students with the tools to analyze music and lyrics through the lens of social justice, use critical listening techniques, and contribute individual points of view to a collaborative songwriting project.

This project combines music and poetry to create a protest song. Throughout these three mini lessons, students will learn about the power of their personal stories, write a poem or a song, and share their projects with the world. The final artwork will be in the form of a poem or a song.

These step-by-step Mandala Dot painting lessons were created to have meaning to those with dementia and the elderly. Research implies that artistic engagement may help to ease symptoms of dementia like stress. It may also increase mood and self-esteem and possibly help stimulate memory.

In this series of lessons, students will be invited to explore the world of poetry for performance. Each lesson can be done independently or as a series.

Food as Art centers around how food can be used as inspiration for and a medium in visual art-making. By reflecting on their own kitchens, memories, perceptions, feelings and families, young artists will explore their relationship to food and the stories that come from cooking and eating.

Students will create traditional or digital sequential art with a writing-design-illustrating method, emphasizing concept and creativity to tell a moving visual story, rooted in culture, identity, and physio-emotional challenges, and their intersection, in order to connect with the self and readers.

Students will create a series of formal and conceptual projects that work with design theory and principles. Students will brainstorm, make connections to the world, and solve visual problems for a wide audience; all the while accumulating understanding of design thinking (the design process).