Poetry/Art Projects

When students make visual art then write poetry inspired by their own art-making, wonderful things happen! Inspired by my own art-making, my studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and special training in "Image-Making within the Writing Process," (an innovative methodology developed by Beth Olshansky at the University of New Hampshire), I have begun teaching a variety of poetry/art projects. These approaches can be especially helpful for coaxing reluctant writers into writing!

The Landscape Inside My body (grades K-8)

Night & Water: Collages & Poems (grades 3-5)

These Are My Hands (grades 3-12)

One-Word Collages & Poems (grades 5-12)

Musical Scribbles (grades 6-12)

Photo/Text Projects (grades 8-12)

Also check out: The Hayt School Art/Poetry Project (5th Grade). Browse through the menu of student projects to see (and hear!) self-portraits and the poetry they inspired. This project (sponsored by Art Resources in Teaching & The Collaboratory Project, an initiative of Northwestern University) involved myself and teaching artist Guillermo Delgado instructing a very diverse classroom of 5th grade students at Hayt School, Chicago, Illinois