Digital Resources
Looking for projects or resources to make and use at home? Welcome to our new Digital Resources page!Â
​The Dayton Art Institute’s growing Learning Library Online offers art-making lessons, projects and educational materials for learners of all ages. Connect with your museum through art experiences you can do at home … or anywhere! Click a project to learn more and to download lessons. Check here often for updates and new lessons.
Special Resource: Women Artists in the DAI Collection
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Dayton Art Institute recognizes and celebrates the contributions of women artists. Click Here to learn about selected artists from our collection!
Families
Art Vids for Kids: Circe Mulling Wine
Gioacchino Assereto (Italian, 1600-1639)
Retrofit: Turning Today’s Clothes into Period Costumes (Lesson 1)
Create fantastical, faerie-inspired skirts and a matching magical wand.
Harlequin Puppet
Use cutting and gluing skills to make a stick puppet!
Paper Plate Guitar
Make your own playable four-string guitar.
Dinosaur Dancing Feet
Make your own wearable dinosaur dancing feet!
Torn Paper Skeleton Hand
Use paper-tearing and cutting skills to create your own skeleton hand.
1st – 3rd Grade
Playful Paper Weaving
Use construction paper to explore color and pattern by weaving various compositions.
Recycle Robots
Create a robot sculpture using repurposed materials you have around the house!
4th – 6th Grade
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7th – 12th Grade
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YA & Adults
Art of Architecture
Draw complex buildings and structures using one-point perspective techniques.
Scenes in and around Kyoto
Japanese (Edo period, 1615 1868), early 18th century
Anatomy Fundamentals: The Human Figure
Benjamin West – Adonis with His Dogs
Blissful Hours
Samuel Richards (American, 1853-1893)
Flowers and Plants
Geometric shapes as our starting point on the journey into a freeform, flower-filled world
The Holy Family with a Donor in a Landscape
Pier Francesco Bissolo (Italian, 1470/72—1554)
The Holy Family with a Donor in a Landscape