Each artist worked on his own individual art project.

PJ worked on his art project, and Aiden was absent from art class.

Each artist worked on his own individual art project.

I showed the class the artwork entitled American Alphabet by artist Heidi Cody. Each letter of the alphabet from A to Z is represented by the first letter of a well-known American product logo. For Example: A is from All Laundry Detergent, B is from Bubblicious Bubble Gum, C is from Campbell’s Soup, and so on. We talked about the identity of these products from popular American culture. Then I showed them the video Looking Past Symbolism: Meaning in Dutch Still Life Painting presented by Smarthistory.org. We learned about symbolism: the use of symbols or images to signify meaning and concepts. Then I asked each student to think about a still life that they will curate that has objects of significance and meaning to them and then to draw it. I gave them the rest of the class to sketch. I also let them look through my Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols by Henry Dreyfuss.

Each artist worked on his own art project.

Each artist worked on his own art project.

Each artist worked on his own art project.

Each student worked on his own art project.

Each artist worked on his own art project.

Each artist worked on his own art project.