District-Wide Workshops
DVI district-wide workshop at the Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ
The Da Vinci Initiative offers district-wide workshops for art teachers! We bring the best atelier-trained artists from around the country to your school district to provide studio-based workshops. Lesson plans that correlate directly to presented content are provided so that educators can bring their new skills immediately into the classroom. Workshops are custom designed to district needs and start as low as $100/teacher for a one-day workshop. Please contact us for a quote.
Book your district-wide workshop by e-mailing davinciinitiative@gmail.com
Book your district-wide workshop by e-mailing davinciinitiative@gmail.com
Workshop Choices:
Still Life Drawing for the Classroom
This workshop introduces a system for teaching skill-based still life drawing in K-12 classrooms. Participants will learn how to create collapsible still life boxes for classroom use, where every student can arrange their own objects and light source. Then, a variety of methods will be introduced for teaching drawing concepts to students. This workshop balances teaching new, skill-based drawing methods to participants while introducing lesson plan ideas for teaching drawing concepts to students. Participants will leave this workshop with a still life drawing of their own and the ability to teach still life concepts to all grade levels.
19th Century Drawing Course for the Contemporary Classroom
Participants will learn technical drawing skills by working from a 19th century French drawing course, considered by many historians to be one of the first drawing curricula ever circulated. This workshop will explore aspects of the 19th century method while teaching participants new techniques for accurately observing subjects, translating these observations into their own drawing and a contemporary drawing classroom. Lesson plans that feature technical drawing skills will accompany the instructor demonstrations and hands on portion of the class.
Making It Look Real Ever have a student ask you what’s “wrong” with their drawing, and you didn’t quite know the answer? Take this workshop to discover how to control proportion, value, and perspective while learning how to identify and avoid common mistakes students make that destroy the perception of believable space.
Don’t see the right workshop for you? Work with us to create a custom workshop tailored to the needs of your teachers.
Book your workshop by e-mailing: davinciinitiative@gmail.com