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Aesthetics Unit
Aesthetics Lesson 1: Introduction  
Aesthetics Lesson 2: Personal Aesthetic
Aesthetics Lesson 3: Aesthetics and Beauty
Aesthetics Lesson 4: Theories 
Aesthetics Lesson 5: Great Dialogues  
Collaboration Unit
Collaboration Lesson 1: Introduction
Collaboration Lesson 2: Clay Olympics and Game Design
Collaboration Lesson 3: Artist Examples 
Collaboration Lesson 4: Collaborative Mural Making
Collecting Unit
Collecting Lesson 1: Introduction
The Artistic Practice of Collecting 
Collecting Lesson 3: Contemporary Artist Examples
Collecting Lesson 4: Project Ideas
Collecting Lessons: Elementary Adaptations
Critical Response Unit
Critical Response Lesson 1: What is a Critic?
Critical Response Lesson 2: Identifying Tastes and Biases
Critical Response Lesson 3: Intuitive Response
Critical Response Lesson 4: Research
Critical Response Lesson 5: Writing a Criticism
Critical Response: Elementary Adaptation
History and Memory Unit
History & Memory Lesson 1: Collective Memory 
History & Memory: Elementary Adaptation
History and Memory Lesson 2: What Do You Know About JFK?
History and Memory Lesson 3: Sources 
History and Memory Lesson 4: Historians Interpret Sources
History and Memory Lesson 5: The Artist Interprets Sources
History and Memory Lesson 6: Research
History and Memory Lesson 7: Develop Your Own Interpretation 
Silkscreen Printing Unit
Lesson 1: Silkscreen Printing
Lesson 2: Silkscreen Printing
 Lesson 3: Silkscreen Printing
Lesson 4: Silkscreen Printing
Lesson 5: Silkscreen Printing 
Lesson 6: Silkscreen Printing
Art and Activities
Andy Warhol's Blotted Line
Brillo: But Is It Art?
Camouflage Sound Activity 
 Campbell’s Soup: Ode to Food 
Collecting Youth Culture
Commissioned Portraits
Death and Disasters: Newspaper Activity
Diversity of Voice: Views on Guns in America
Everyday Objects and Transformation
Hammer and Sickle: Interpreting Symbols and Meaning 
Icon Portraits
Jackie: Flashbulb Memory Activity 
Oxidations and Abstraction
Rubber Stamping Activity 
Screen Tests
Space Fruit and the Color Wheel
Still Life and Observation Drawing  
The Pocket Project
Time Capsule 21 Activity
Raid The Icebox with Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol: Time Capsules 
Compare and Contrast Artists
Barbara Kruger
Beatrix*JAR (music/performance duo) 
Biko
 Billy Klüver and Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds 
Donald Judd
Glenn Kaino
Grant Wood
Jackson Pollock
Jasper Johns
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Joseph Cornell
Karsten Bott
Kota Ezawa
Mark Dion
Martin Johnson Heade
Paul Wandless 
Portia Munson
Rembrandt van Rijn  
   Robert Rauschenberg
Romare Bearden 
Stefan Hoderlein
Whitfield Lovell
Willem de Kooning
Yinka Shonibare
Other Professionals and Features
Arthur Danto, Brillo boxes and the End of Art
 The Geek Squad and Best Buy
The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence 
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie 
Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball 
LeAlan Jones
 Rem Koolhaas
Stephen J. Gould
Susan Sontag
Museums and Cultural Change 
Featured School Projects
Aesthetics: Elizabeth Forward High School
Aesthetics: Highlands High School
Aesthetics: Ross Elementary
Collaboration: Bellefonte Area Middle School
Collaboration: Dillworth Middle School
Collaboration: Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild & Artists Image Resource
Collaborative Mural Making
Collecting Youth Culture: Singapore School of the Arts
Collecting: Steel Valley High School
Collecting: Pleasant Hills Middle School
Collecting School Project: Arsenal Middle School
Collecting: Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts
Collecting: Childrens Art Center in Metallurg, Samara, Russia
Collecting: Schenley High School
Collecting: School 133 in Samara, Russia
Collecting: School 150 in Samara, Russia
Collecting: School 2 in Belaya Kalitva, Russia
Collecting: School 3, Belaya Kalitva, Russia
Collecting: School 6 in Belaya Kalitva, Russia
Critical Response: South Vo-Tech High School
Critical Response: Wesley Spectrum Highland School
Silkscreen Printing: CAPA High School
Silkscreen Printing: Pittsburgh Gifted Center (6th-8th grade)
Silkscreen Printing: Schenley High School