NCHS Visual Arts

Karrie Arana, Hot Coffee , 2020 The Brown Bag Challenge is a great collaborative art project to encourage discussion, creative problem solving, and community in your Art Room. I love this art making activity for many reasons. One, it changes the dynamic in your Art Room. Each table receives a brown paper bag, instruction sheet, and a few materials. Inside the brown bag is a collection of random items such as, magazine clippings, old cut up art, tissue paper, cardboard pieces, etc. Once the students open that bag and empty its contents, they have to collaboratively figure out how to use these items to create a composition, which brings me to reason two, its a challenge. Each group of students will have to make creative choices like cutting versus ripping, layering versus spreading items out, adding color using other materials, or drawing to continue a pattern. There are even more choices to make, but the point is the table groups learn how to talk to each other, voice creative opinions