Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins with Cathy Hicks

What all do you know about this artist, Yayoi Kusama? Started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. See the link for her biography.  http://yayoi-kusama.jp/e/biography/ Our lower school art teacher, Cathy, taught this lesson and the products were just too cute not to share

Resources for this unit:

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-yayoi-kusama

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:yayoi%20kusama

https://seecstories.com/2017/05/04/teacher-feature-preschool-art-explores-yayoi-kusama/
https://www.slideshare.net/nivaca2/yayoi-kusama-for-kids

Art Lessons from other blogs:

http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2016/10/pumpkin-paintings-inspired-by-yayoi.html
http://www.artisbasic.com/tag/yayoi-kusama
http://saharatulip.blogspot.com/2016/03/3rd-grade-art-lesson-yayoi-kusama-and.html

Articles on Yayoi:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-history-polka-dot-minnie-mouse-yayoi-kusama

https://hyperallergic.com/424862/kusama-infinity-heather-lenz/

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-kusama-yayoi.htm

.Museum Resources:
https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/moma_learning/docs/MAI8_1.pdf
https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/17805/Yayoi-Kusama-Primary-Teacher-Notes.pdf
https://high.org/exhibition/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirrors/