DISTANCE LEARNING VIDEOS
These online art making projects invite participants to create work inspired by artworks from different time periods, using materials they have at home. Students are introduced to new concepts, techniques, and ways to use everyday materials.
LACMA: Distance Learning for Schools
A Booklet of Plant Drawings
3rd Grade
Inspired by STEAM principles, explore how drawings can help you see, think, and study the world. Watch this video by registering for the Creative Classrooms course.
Dancing Sculptures
3rd Grade
Inspired by STEAM principles, learn how artists make sculptures that appear to be moving. Watch this video by registering for the Creative Classrooms course.
Historic Vessel Designs
3rd Grade
Inspired by STEAM principles, explore the wealth of historical secrets objects hold and learn how to make a historical drawing of your own. Watch this video by registering for the Creative Classrooms course.
A Collage Story
4th Grade
Explore the principles of social emotional learning by making a collage about your community. Watch this video by registering for the Creative Classrooms course.
Portrait Paper Dolls
4th Grade
Explore the principles of social emotional learning by creating a portrait in the form of a paper doll. Watch this video by registering for the Creative Classrooms course.
An Advertisement for Change
4th Grade
Explore the principles of social emotional learning by using words and pictures to create a message about an important issue.
Communities Create LA! and LACMA & LA County Library: Creative Storytelling
Communities Create LA! Cultural Talismans
Experiment with form, texture, and color to create a talisman that represents your own culture and identity! Explore modeling techniques and learn about the symbol and function of the scarab beetle in ancient Egyptian times.
Communities Create LA! Assembled Histories
Learn how the Edward Kienholz uses found materials to tell a story about the Holocaust, a tragic and critical part of our history. Create your own 3D artworks by assembling and collecting objects, words, and images that tell a story.
Communities Create LA! Stop Motion Collages
Learn how video artist Jennifer West experiments with 16mm film and create your own collaged, moving images by exploring shape, texture, layering, photography and video recording techniques such as stop motion animation and time-lapse
Creative Storytelling: Civic Engagement
Featuring a live story reading from an LA County librarian of "Giant Steps to Change the World" by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, followed by an artmaking project inspired by Shepard Fairey’s work.
Creative Storytelling: Materials & Meaning
This workshop featured a live story reading from an LA County librarian of "Building Our House" followed by an art-making workshop inspired by Noah Purifoy’s artwork, The Summer of 1965.
Creative Storytelling: Patterns & Nature
This workshop featured a live story reading from an LA County librarian of "The Night Gardener" followed by an art-making workshop inspired by William Lesch’s colorful light photographs of a prickly pear cactus.
LACMA Make Art @ Home
High-contrast Collage Portrait
Inspired by Elizabeth Catlett’s bold and dynamic prints representing the stories of black women in the 1940s and 1950s, you can create your own high contrast portraits of your family.
Materials: paper (white and black or other dark color), recycled magazine pages, glue, scissors.
Unexpected Marble Painting
Inspired by the way that Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis experiment with chance and the unexpected in their work, you can create your own unexpected paintings using the technique of marbling.
Materials: Light colored paper or card, shaving foam (or shaving gel whipped up!), liquid watercolor (or inks or food coloring), a container, scissors and glue (optional)
Build a Paper City
Inspired by Chris Burden's representation of a busy and bustling city in his installation Metropolis II (2011), you are invited to create your own three dimensional environments!
Materials: paper, recycled cardboard base, scissors, clear tape.
Assemblage Visual Poem
Assemblage is a work of art made by grouping found or collected elements. In this activity, you will learn how to make assemblage boxes where light, texture, and form play together to form visual poems inspired by the work of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell.
Materials: Cereal box, scissors, glue, tape, recycled cardboard, collage papers and images, small objects
Stained Glass Window
Inspired by the stained glass windows in LACMA’s collection, you are invited to create your own miniature stained glass windows using materials available at home.
Materials: card stock, sandwich bag (or other clear plastic sheet), clear tape, permanent markers, nail polish.