Article · Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Storytelling with Still Life
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2026
About this lesson
A museum lesson plan that uses Wayne Thiebaud's still life paintings to teach how object choice, arrangement, and mood create symbolism and narrative, then has students arrange real objects into their own story-telling still life compositions and discuss the meanings that emerge.
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