Studying Mural: “Crack is Wack”

Studying Mural: "Crack is Wack"

Haring's 2-sided mural on a handball court at 128th Street & 2nd Avenue in NYC overlooks the FDR drive. A public site that has brought much acknowledgement since it was painted in 1986. This lesson, organized collaboratively with The Children's Storefront gives local students the opportunity to examine and reflect on one of Haring's most influential landmarks.

Bus Stop Mosaic

Bus Stop Mosaic

This 8th grade class from Germany was invited to creat a doublesided mosaic for a local community bus stop.

The Keith Haring Car

The Keith Haring Car

During this lesson the children learned about Keith Haring and what kind of artwork he created. Then they had fun expressing painting an entire car in Haring-inspired imagery!

Haring Mosaic

Haring Mosaic

These 8th graders from a town in Germany were invited to create a public mosaic for their local town hall in Bullay. Inspired by Keith Haring, the students chose bold, colorful figures to depict their message.

Stone Figurines

Stone Figurines

Sent in by a school in Germany, this class created the perfect Haring-style table settings.

Lesson Series

Lesson Series

Children from the Netherlands explore a unit on Keith Haring, including Tee-shirt stamping and collaborative, mural-sized drawings.

Haring Inspired Wall Murals

Haring Inspired Wall Murals

Parent and student volunteers went to Greenfield Elementary School on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday to work together and paint Haring-inspired murals on the walls of the fourteen stairwell landings.

A Haring Holiday

A Haring Holiday

Create Haring-inspired holiday ornaments with children using this fun and easy project sent in to us by a high school in Kansas.

Friends Mural

Friends Mural

A fun and easy, project that will leave your walls full of color and energy.

Dancing Silhouettes

Dancing Silhouettes

After a dance lesson about statues, these youngsters looked at Keith Haring pictures and drew their own silhouettes on the asphalt outside their school.

Colorful Dogs

Colorful Dogs

Pre-K and Kindergarten children create collage dogs, similar to those of Keith Haring, using paper cut-out rectangles and triangles.

Character Traits in Fables

Character Traits in Fables

Fourth and Fifth grade Special Education students wrote fables, created a subway mural, dance freeze cut outs, illustrations and sculptures of their characters, wrote a song and choreographed a dance for each character, and designed a web page of their work on the project.