While teaching a magazine design layout project to our Intermediate Computer Graphics students, we stumbled across an image of Steve Jobs made entirely of text. Students were intrigued by it, and it started a class discussion about how images could be combined with the written word to create surprisingly complex visual results. Students wanted to make their own images out of text in this way, and thus the Text Art Project was born.
Art teachers share their STEAM efforts through a variety of powerful interdisciplinary lessons. Students experiment with electroluminescent lights, collaborate with science students to engineer moving mechanical insects, use natural materials to create colorful inks, explore surface tension with paper marbling, and much more.
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