Outside The Lines an ongoing series of projects that uses art to thread together cross-content ideas and themes.
Outside The Lines
Each Outside the Lines project pack is designed around an essential question that guides the entire pack. These are big, interesting, and meaty questions that provide lots to think over, discuss, and make art about.
You will find:
Background information around the core topic/essential question
Diverse artworks and artist biographies for reflection/discussion
Exciting art projects with flexible material choices
You’ll also receive these supports:
Discussion prompts and assessment strategies
Direct links to core content areas
Linking to the Teaching Tolerance Standards
Spanish translations of student handouts.
Our Past Issues
#9: Frame of Reference
“Frame of Reference” explores how individual perspectives influence our perception of fact.
#8: Fashion & Culture
“Fashion & Culture” leverages your students’ inherent interest in fashion to dive into the language of clothing and explore how it is used to represent wider cultural ideas.
#7: Community Connection
Students are asked to think about and define their communities; through a series of prompts they grow their understanding of and connect more deeply with the other members of said community.
#3: A Place in Space
Explores how places are more than the sum of their parts; decisions went into the design and preservation of these spaces that is reflective of a particular society, and a particular moment in time. Students look at historical examples while also thinking about how their personal spaces reflect their personalities, opinions, and ideals.
#2: America is Hard to See
We explore how difficult it is to neatly categorize or define the country’s ethos and inhabitants. Students look to their own backgrounds and communities to explore, identify, and define their particular experience of America while also learning the perspectives of other Americans.
#1: A Portrait in Time
“A Portrait in Time” highlights artists working in isolation; students look at how these artists captured their unique experiences of a particular moment in time, and are ultimately challenged to create a portrait that captures their own experience.
#6: Where Do We Go From Here?
Students collectively create a fictional town. As they work, they learn about climate change and are able to explore and think about how communities adapt and build resilience, as well as explore ideas of environmental justice. They end by applying what they learned to their real-life community.
#5: Heroes Among Us
“Heroes Among Us” explores the concept that heroes are raised, rather than born. Through a series of projects, it supports teachers in laying the foundation of ‘heroic habits’.
#4: The Introspective Artist
“The Introspective Artist” offers tools and resources that support students to develop skills that will allow them to understand and process their experiences and emotions through art.
