Drawing and AI in the Classroom
Monroe Township
with
Young Audiences of New Jersey/Eastern PA Teaching Artist and Visual Artist Triada Samaras
Senior Director of Education and Equity YANJ/EP Michelle Marigliano
Content Area Supervisor Monroe Township Public Schools Steven Carey
November 3, 2026
Overall Description (K-12)
This two-part workshop invites K-12 art teachers to draw by hand and then explore how AI tools, starting with Gemini, can support their teaching. Teachers will look for the bridges between hand-drawn work and AI that could be useful in their classrooms, and brainstorm ways to use AI for lesson planning, art materials, art history, techniques, and critiques, with the teacher guiding the technology and the drawing leading the way. No AI experience is needed. Teachers will leave with practical, age-appropriate strategies and a shared language for talking about art teaching and AI.
Teachers will learn
How hand drawing and AI can support each other in an art classroom
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for K-12 students
A shared language for talking about art teaching and AI
Teachers will do
Draw by hand as a way into the workshop
Experiment with AI platforms, starting with Gemini Standalone
Discuss the bridges between hand-drawn work and AI
Brainstorm uses of AI for lesson planning, materials, art history, techniques, and critiques
Create a lesson plan using AI
Drawing Resources
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New | Whitney Museum of American Art
Hoyt Sherman and Drawing by Seing
Tower Keith Haring: Decoding the Artist's Iconic Symbolism and Legacy – RedKalion
How to Draw Keith Haring’s Break Dancing Figures | Easy Art Tutorial - YouTube
Bettter Prompts
Better Prompts: Subject: what is in it
Medium and materials: oil on linen, charcoal on toned paper, gouache, linocut, watercolor on cold-press paper
Style or period: Impressionism, Ukiyo-e, Byzantine icon, German Expressionism, Bauhaus
Elements of art: line quality, value range, color palette, texture, shape, space
Principles of design: asymmetrical balance, strong contrast, repetition with variation, a clear focal point
Composition and viewpoint: bird’s-eye view, tight crop, low horizon line, foreground/middle ground/background
Mood and light: raking afternoon light, overcast and quiet, high-key, chiaroscuro
c. Triada Samaras 2026
Triada Samaras Art Education CV
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