Artist’s Bedroom in a Shoebox
Art teacher Maria Romanski recently shared these amazing photos of her students’ work on social media. For their holiday homework, she challenged them to design an artist’s bedroom inside a shoebox. The students’ creativity and enthusiasm shine through in every detail!
Maria explained that she set this task for Year 7 and/or 8 students (Ages 11 – 13).
“The brief was very straightforward, to create a bedroom in a shoebox inspired by the work of a 20th century artist.” said Maria.
She gave them a suggested list of artists but also said it could be any famous 20th-century artist.
It’s such a great way to get them looking at artists in an imaginative and independent way and shows the value of setting a homework that takes time.
Maria stated that she can’t take credit for this project as she had first seen it shared by another art teacher on social media; and so the inspiration goes on!
Artists used here are Mattise, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, and Banksy. If you want to run this project and give your students a list of artists, you could consider Yayoi Kusma, Frida Kahlo, Kehinde Wiley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and Alma Thomas. They all have striking, easily recognisable work.
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