Third Grade Art Program

Lessons this year include:

Landscapes.
See the ArtPage article on landscapes, which includes dozens of examples from art history.
Seeing Near and Far (creating an illusion of depth).
Self-portraits.
See the ArtPage article on self-portraits. Visit our gallery of 3rd grade students' self-portraits.
Art in context.

Here are links to pages about the program for other grades, and what we emphasize in each grade:

1st & 2nd -- creativity with color, pattern, and large tools. Pinch pots. Visit our gallery of 1st graders' family-portraits.

4th -- Arizona's art heritage, realism and abstraction, game theory & maze design, drawing from a model, and first work on a potter's wheel

5th -- surrealism, achieving a likeness, using an ever wider variety of media, and America's art heritage.

6th -- architectural design and history, slab-constructed pottery, and the world's art history.