Teach Vashti Harrison’s Magical Art to Your K-12 Students w/ Drawing Prompts & Storyboards (Ep. 1)

Discover how to bring the artist Vashti Harrison to your K-12 art classroom! Start with a brief crash course of background information about the artist and their artwork. Vashti Harrison is an author, illustrator, and filmmaker who highlights black and female leaders. Her illustrations capture the magic a young person feels encountering the world! 

Learn practical and engaging ways to bring Vashti Harrison to your elementary and secondary art students. Joe shows how to process themes with drawing prompts and create narratives with storyboards. Harris guides students through exploring and describing her portfolio, and how to facilitate a discussion about identity.

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Check out the resources mentioned in this video:

• Vashti Harrison’s artist bio
• Festival of Colors Book 
• One Page Zine 
• Personality Trait Spinner 
• 6 Word Memoir Activity
• Build Your Own Character Download
• FLEX Curriculum