Art TV

While I was eating lunch, I had the TV on for a few minutes, and I came across a show on PBS called Sharing Art. It's a few years old, but in L.A. the episodes air on Channel 58 on Wednesdays, so I'm guessing they're probably still airing other places, too. From the website:

PBS 45 & 49's Sharing Art consists of fifteen 15-minute programs for students in grades 5 - 10. The first ten episodes of the series feature northeast Ohio art museums, artists and schools. The episodes include the following:

An introduction to a museum piece of art

A local artist explaining how he or she does comparable art

Students in a local classroom doing a similar project

The Pop Art one I saw had students using Photoshop to increase the contrast on photos of themselves, which they then printed out on transparencies. They painted on the back, and ended up with arty-looking self portraits.



It was strange for me to see kids in a public high school using Photoshop in art class. When I was in high school, there wasn't even one computer in the art room. Kids today probably take it for granted that an art project can combine digital images and real paint, and that's kinda neat.