Article · New Orleans Museum of Art
Art-Making Activity: Still-Life Stories
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
About this lesson
A museum activity, inspired by Picasso's still-life work, that has participants gather household objects, sort them into People/Places/Things, arrange them to imply a story, then draw the arrangement and optionally build the narrative out using a Story Mountain structure.
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