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Teach Jerry Uelsmann’s Surreal Photos to Your K-12 Students w/ AI-Generated Image Projects (Ep. 7)

| August 21, 2025

Discover how to bring the artist Jerry Uelsmann to your K-12 art classroom! Start with a brief crash course of background information about the artist and their artwork. Jerry Uelsmann was a photographer and photography teacher who created complex, mind-bending, and surreal images in a traditional darkroom. 

Dive into practical and engaging ways to bring Jerry Uelsmann to your elementary and secondary art students. Joe shows how to introduce Surrealism to young students with a compare-and-contrast activity and an AI-generated image project. Harris does a See-Think-Wonder prompt to stir students’ imaginations before mixing analog and digital collage processes.

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Lindsey McGinnis is AOE’s Media Content Manager and a former high school art educator. She is passionate about equipping art teachers to be successful in their classrooms and firmly believes that art is the best place for students to explore and process the challenging topics and concepts around them.

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