Painting: Niki Gulley, Contemporary Impressionist
2:31
Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Meet Niki Gulley, an impressionist painter known for her stunning landscape paintings. Niki discusses her painting process, as well as her thoughts and inspirations as an artist. Visit www.nikigulley.com for more information
Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: AandA-NGulley**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- For Discussion: Niki Gulley describes herself as a contemporary impressionist. What do students think that means? Have them compare her work to those of impressionists they have studied/are familiar with? What similarities and differences do they see in the techniques and subject matter?
- Activity Idea: Use the video in conjunction with your study of impressionism. Compare works by major painters of the Impressionist period to Ms. Gulley’s work and then have students create their own contemporary impressionist painting.
*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
