START WITH ART: The New Yorker (Jazz) Bowl

This takes us less than five minutes each morning and tends to be re-visited later in the day at the dinner table or during our evening reading sessions. 

Here's how to #STARTWITHART:

Step one: Take a look at the artwork below

Step two: Read the questions below the picture of the art to the students/children in your life

Step three: See how starting your day with art can ignite creativity and critical thinking! 

It's that easy!

Title: The New Yorker (Jazz) Bowl

Artist: Viktor Schreckengost

Date: 1930

Medium: Glazed ceramic with sgraffito design

Dimensions: 28.6 x 41.3 cm

Start with Art Questions:

• The artist, Viktor Schreckengost, was given the task of expressing the "jazzy pulse" of New York City in clay. What elements or design decisions contribute to a "jazzy pulse"?

• The bowl's design was created by scratching through a thin covering of black clay (called slip) to reveal the white ceramic underneath. Then, a blue glaze was added. Look closely: do you see elements of "scratching"? 

• If you were creating an artwork to depict the jazzy pulse of a city, what colors or designs would you use? 

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