Plants & Seasons

How can the arts represent the change of seasons? Then watch as Japanese Shigeo Kawashima creates intricate geometric shapes from bamboo; Mali storyteller Yaya Coulibaly carves a marionette out of wood, Native American Keith Bear discusses how a tree branch becomes a flute, and listen to Andes Manta recreate the South American rainforest with instruments made with natural materials.

Lesson

Trees In Nature And Art

Students will explore the use of trees in paintings and poetry

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Landscape Painting

Using James Palmersheim's Silver Creek's November II as a starting point, students will create their own landscape paintings.

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Shigeo Kawashima: Wa

Shigeo Kawashima's sculptures take bamboo as an artistic medium to a new level

Video Series

Andes Manta

Andes Manta performs the vibrant music of the Andes on more than 35 traditional instruments

Lesson

Making Rain

In this lesson, students experience rain through several activities, experiments, reading, and performing.

Video Series

Keith Bear, Flute-Maker

Musician, storyteller and flutemaker Keith Bear sheds light on the art and tradition of making flutes in the Native American tradition in this series of video clips.

Video Series

Sogolon Puppet Theater

Sogolon is the puppet show and theatrical company created by Yaya Coulibaly in order to perpetrate and promote the Mali puppet tradition. The group's core mission is to contribute to develop and promote the Bamanan-Somono-Bozo puppet show.

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