Twas the Night 7th grade event, Vision of Peace images

7th grade:

I sent 2nd and 3rd period classes home with a hard copy of the information for Twas the Night. I forgot to hand out to 6th period. Please see this link for information.

6th grade:

See this link for images of the student's art work who won our Lions Club Vision of Peace Poster Contest!

What's up next?

6th grade is beginning a unit on Pop Art and will be drawing a realistic image of Andy Warhol's Coca Cola bottles, creating a painting in the style of Jim Dine, creating a silhouette collage, and sculpting clay inspired by Wayne Thiebaud's art work.

7th grade is working on a museum scavenger hunt web quest and creating a keynote presentation for all of our art classes. They will complete our unit on Museums by creating a fish painting in the style of any artist that we saw on our High Museum of Art field trip.

I hope everyone has a very blessed Thanksgiving.

6th grade peace poster winners!

Our art room has been transformed into a gallery!

The 2011 Lion's Club Vision of Peace Poster Contest is on exhibit!

Fifty-two posters were presented, on our new art panels, to our five guest judges.

More information to follow for our winners,

and they are . . .

1st place: Lauren Hemmings

2nd place: Sam Farris

3rd place: Collier Wilson

Congratulations to these students and the other 6th grade art students on a job Very well done!

Many of my 7th grade students complimented their work, as well. This is a great group of hardworking and very creative students. Thanks for all that you do, students!!!

7th grade field trip and 6th grade peace posters

7th grade field trip: students should return their information forms signed by both parents and students Thursday, November 10. Also, I wanted to clarify that no additional charges will be made for our trip. Any students who do not attend will not be charged. We still owe the fees to the Museum and Capital Trailways, but the money will come from our middle school general art budget.

We are using resources provided by the High Museum of Art to "learn the lingo". I have created flashcards on quizlet with the these terms. Students should review this information for an open notes quiz on Monday. They will be allowed to use the flashcards to answer the questions. We will look at images of famous artworks tomorrow in class that exemplifies these terms and also watch a DVD on visiting a museum. Student's will also have a handout with specific questions that they will answer in regards to their visit to the museum. This information will be due on Wednesday, November 16 at the end of our class period.

We have completed a group webquest on color schemes and students will complete another webquest on a museum scavenger hunt at the end of the following week.

6th grade peace posters: Students completed their work today and the posters will be judged at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. I will post the winners via this blog on Friday, November 11. These students have been working hard on their artwork. I am so proud of them! We will begin studying Pop art and artists Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Wayne Thiebaud. We will work on several projects in the Pop Art style in various media including colored pencil, oil pastel and clay sculpture.

7th grade Twas the night event

Twas the Night/Empty Bowls Fine Arts Event

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Willett Hall

Empty Bowls is a national event dedicated to fighting hunger in local communities through the use of handmade, or hand painted ceramic bowls. Guests will make a suggested donation at the door and pick up a handmade or hand painted bowl of their choice from the work of the visual art students in the middle and upper school art departments.

Your student is participating in the Twas the Night event this year by displaying the ceramic bowl that we have been working on in art. The seventh grade students learned about the Japanese Tea Ceremony and Raku Pottery as an introduction to this project. We sketched images from the traditional Japanese culture, used the smart board to visually study the architecture, interior design and elements of the traditional tea ceremony, its art and meaning.

The students were given a piece of greenware to apply color, glaze and fire in the upper school art kiln. The students selected colors from the Potter’s Choice color palette. These colors are very similar in appearance to tea bowls from both past and present.

It is not mandatory that students attend, yet we would like to invite you and your family. The performances for this annual event showcase the talent of the dance, show choir and forensics students together with a small ensemble of band students. Typically, the Art Dept. supports this event by providing the PR and Event Set up, so we are excited to be an integral part of it this year while raising awareness and support for hungry.

If you would like your student’s bowl and cannot attend, please send your donation with your him / her this week along with the form that they will bring home. We are suggesting a donation of at least $5.00 per bowl. All bowls will be on display, yet the claimed bowls will be marked. Students may take their bowl home at the end of the performances. I will have the bowls that were purchased, but not taken home, available for the students the following day.

7th grade field trip information to the High Museum of Art, Tuesday, November 15

A letter with specific details is being sent home with your student on Tuesday, November 8. Please review the information and return the second page by Thursday, November 10. We are looking forward to our field trip!