Free Art Curriculum
“Curriculum for a year if you study one artist per month for a school year.”
I have created notebooking pages (2 sets that are slightly different) to go along with this wonderful free art curriculum guide at Concordia University Chicago – Art Lessons.!!!
Update: July, 2018 For years, these lesson plans have been at the Concordia University Chicago, but the professor who wrote them will be putting them on her website. I’ve been in touch with her and her reply is : I’m in the process of reviewing these documents and hope to have them posted on my professional website early September.
Update: December, 2018 The author of the free art curriculum has decided to start charging for the curriculum guides which have been free for years. I’ve unlinked to her site and please note: The notebooking pages are mine and are still free. You’ll see artist listed below with the notebooking page. For the upcoming year I’ll be focusing on gathering resources for you for the artist study that we used.
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Curriculum guides are provided for Grades 1 – 8. However, I feel art can be enjoyed by all ages from K to Gray.
With these free curriculum guides from the Concordia University you can go in as depth or as light as you choose to because of the background information that is provided in each package.
Picture Source: Concordia University Chicago
You can download the whole unit for each grade level or the individual pages.
Click here to go to the main page.
Why Does Each Grade Level Have 2 Sets of Notebooking Pages?
As a mom homeschooling multiple ages I wanted the flexibility to provide more in depth art, even for my highschoolers, as I used this curriculum.
Too, I needed to keep it on the lighter side for my youngest.
So both sets have the SAME art pieces but one set has one more text box and the other set has a sketch box.
First set has 4 Text Boxes – Artist Name, Facts About the Artist, Title of the Art and Interesting Facts.
Second set has 3 Text Boxes + 1 Sketch Box – Artist Name, Facts About the Artist, Title of the Art and Box for a Sketch of the art.
Your student can decide if they want to do more research and write under “Interesting Facts” or prefers to “Sketch” the art or a similar art piece
Mix and match each art and artists too from each pack.
Some of the artists my sons preferred to write about and some of the pieces they wanted to sketch.
How to use this: Download the free teacher guide for EACH grade level here at Concordia University.
1st Grade
Artists studied in this grade level are:
- Paul Cezannne
- Edward Hicks
- Normal Rockwell
- Pieter Brueghel
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Daniel French
- Albrecht Durer
- Mary Cassett
- Winslow Homer
- John Constable
Artist Study Packet (1st grade) with 3 text – 1 sketch box
Artist Study Packet (1st grade) with 4 text boxes
2nd Grade
- Anne Whitney
- Henri Rousseau
- George Catlin
- John Singleton
- Henry Tanner
- Gustave Courbet
- Jean Millet
- Van Gogh
- Claude Monet
- Maria Sibylla
DOWNLOAD Artist Study Packet (2nd grade) with 4 text boxes @ Tina’s Dy namic Homeschool Plus
Artist Study Packet (2nd grade) with 3 text – 1 sketch box @ Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus
3rd Grade
Artists studied in this grade level are:
- John Curry
- Wassily Kandinsky
- John Millais
- Raphael Sanzio
- Gilbert Stuart
- Eastman Johnson
- Jessie Smith
- Frederick Remington
- Julia Cameron
- Thomas Sully
3rd grade packet. Download Here Set with SKETCH boxes.
3rd grade packet. Download Here Set with TEXT boxes.
4th Grade
Artists studied in this grade level are:
- John Audubon
- William Morris
- Edwin Landseer
- Edmonia Lewis
- Berta Hummel
- Rosa Bonheur
- Edgar Degas
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Georges Seurat
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5th Grade
Artists studied in this grade level are:
- George Bingham
- Frederic Church
- Edward Curtis
- Emanuel Leutze
- Paul Revere
- Robert Duncanson
- Henrietta Johnston
- Thomas Moran
- Martin Heade
- John Trumbull
4 Text Box Download.Download here packet 3 with 4 text boxes
3 Box & 1 Sketch Download.Download here packet 3 with 3 text boxes and 1 sketch box.
6th Grade
Artists studied in this grade level are:
- James McNeil Whistler
- Tom Thomson
- Caravaggio
- Camille Pissarro
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Kathe Kollwitz
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Edvard Munch
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Johannes Vermeer
3 Box & 1 Sketch Download. Packet 2 Art Packet with SKETCH boxes.
7th Grade
- Casper David Friedrich
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Anne Vallayer-Coster
- Michelangelo
- Hendrick Avercamp
- Henri Fantin-Latour
- William Turner
- George Inness
- Paul Gauguin
- Francois August Rene Rodin
4 Text Box Download.Download the 10 page art unit packet 1 notebooking pages here.
3 Box & 1 Sketch Download.Packet 1 Art Packet with SKETCH boxes.
8th Grade –
- Berthe Morisot
- Édouard Manet
- Jan van Eyck
- Cecilia Beaux
- Susanne Valadon
- Maurice Utrillo
- George Bellows
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
- Francis A. Silva
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
What a wonderful resource. Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely welcome♥♥
Thank you for this free resource! I was wondering if you have added any other pages to the site that I haven’t located. (I know you are crazy busy so no worries if they aren’t posted. Just checking to make sure I didn’t miss them. ) Thanks for all the shares❤
Well I made this page to link them but I do have several art resources spread throughout♥
Is there a way that I can access the artist packets for FREE? If not, where can I locate your free resources that go along with studying each artist? Also, if I can only purchase the artist packets…how can I purchase by grade level? When I went to Debs site grade level pages won’t load, only option was to purchase all, but I don’t need 7th or 8th grade lessons.
Hi Anna,
Sorry you’re having problems. I noted on my page the update. So no, you can’t get them for free anymore because she took them off the site after many years. I’ll be updating my page with resources and I’m not sure about Debs site. Sorry for the frustration but I had no heads up on this. I’ll update my page with resources as I can. Thank you!!