Eureka! Episodes

All episodes are 15-minutes in length and are supported by activities and projects you can use to explore creative arts both inside and outside of the classroom. Check out the Teacher's Guide to review a sample lesson!

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Eureka! The Creative Art Series 1st Edition , 1997-98

What a Relief! Franz takes the artcycle to school and discovers a blue doughnut on the playground that turns into a world.	Episode 1

Art Again (Recyclables) Franz finds a trashed-out horse in Chicago that leads him to an unusual sculptor’s workshop in a different time zone.	Episode 2

Oh! My Papyrus Franz travels to papermaker Jim Pernottos's studio to learn how to make paper and paper sculptures.	Episode 3

First Impressions Franz screens Artboy in his studio and takes a bath to test water-solvable inks.	Episode 4

Temple of the Muse Franz visits galleries in a variety of museums--sometimes finding art where there isn’t supposed to be any. Learn how to look for art and for secret stories and puzzles. Discover evidence of invisible museum people.	Episode 5

The Three D's Look at those dimensions! Big-city sculptures start in the brain. Make a shadow sculpture--no 3-D glasses are required!	Episode 6

Serious Business Franz visits two big-city toy designers and discovers how hard they work. See barking squirt guns, Frankenstein dolls and a mysterious hole in the wall of the toy designers lobby. Learn how to make unusual toys and learn professional secrets to generate new ideas.	Episode 7

Whatizit? Franz explores perspective. Investigate micro-macro art and strange croppings that allows you to see things ordinary things in new ways. Franz and kids make the worlds largest gumball mosaic.	Episode 8

Eureka! The Creative Art Series 2nd Edition 1997-1998
These episodes are currently in production. If you would like to meet Franz in-person at one of our location sites visit Workshops and Special Events to find out where we will be next!

The Real Thing Franz explores the opportunity for artists to alter reality. See classic optical illusions and unusual drawings.	Episode 9

Artist's Bad Day Artists rarely create a masterpiece on the first try. Franz explores happy accidents and strategies for dealing with the unexpected. Even a bad day might lead to great art.	Episode 10

What's the Big Idea? Visit the studio of a sculptor who makes giant props for Hollywood movies. Franz explores scale and ways to transform big ideas into even bigger art.	Episode 11

First Class Art Franz mails something special to his daughter and explores the idea of sharing art over the miles of earth and ocean. Investigate art messages, stamps and lumpy see-thru envelopes. Some boxes at the post office may cluck or chirp.	Episode 12

ICUC (I see, you see) Franz explores ways of communicating with visual languages like rebus, pictograms, and hieroglyphics. Write a secret note like a Roman Emperor!	Episode 13

Who am I? How do you see yourself and others? Franz explores the self-portrait as a form of expression and investigates unusual images, time capsule boxes and collage people.	Episode 14

You Move Me Franz explores art that moves. Thaumatropes and Zoetropes, Phenakistascopes and high hopes!	Episode 15

Art of Hearing Sounds like art! Unusual instruments to make and play. Learn how to make a unique musical instrument, a Drumpilinatar. See how other cultures make art out of instruments.	Episode 16