7th grade students artwork hanging in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art!

Trinity 7th grade art students completed their Folk Art projects and 12 students work were chosen as semi-finalist. The following students work was sent to the Montgomery Museum of Art to be selected for the Artworks Corridor Exhibit: Carolyn Albritton, Sydney Bassett, Ethan Gentry, Adam Hall, Abby Johnston, J. Payne, Allie Ramsey, Mary Todd Romanowski, Brian Roth, Mary V Stabler, Mary Conley Teel, and Kacey Tinney. The Museum had over 200 entries from 13 schools and selected 75 works to display. The following student's work

was selected to hang in the Fabulous Folk Art Exhibit:

Carolyn Albritton, Adam Hall, Ethan Gentry,

J. Payne and Allie Ramsey.

The Exhibit dates are January 22-March 4. Sunday, January 22 is Folk Art Family Day at the Museum. From 2:00-4:00pm, students can create "Earth" paintings and recycled art sculptures in the studios.

Congratulations to these students and all of our 7th graders for their hard work on this project!

6th grade field trip information

Parents,

I will be sending home an information and permission slip with your 6th grade student on Monday, January 9. Please sign and return the lower portion of this form to me by Friday, January 13. We will be attending the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art on Tuesday, February 7 from 9:30-12:00. The tour is titled "Looking at Art" and includes a Studio Activity in the museum classroom activity area. The cost of the field trip is $3.00 per student. We will carpool to the museum via parent drivers. Students will be provided a SAGE box lunch prior to our return. Please let me know if you would like to drive and attend our fieldtrip as a chaperone. We would love to have you! If you would like to drive and attend, please respond via email to jbricken@trinitywildcats.com.

new beginning to 2012!

I am looking forward to seeing everyone back in the art room! I hope everyone has had a great Christmas holiday.

Following is an overview of our first few weeks!

6th grade: We will continue our unit on Pop Art. We have studied the work of artist Andy Warhol and Jim Dine. Students have drawn Coca Cola bottles, and created abstract paintings using common, everyday objects. Our first few days will include creating a silhouette collage with images and colors that express each student. Artist Wayne Thiebaud is up next! We will look at his work using food as subject matter and create clay food sculpture.

Our 6th grade students will be going to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art on Tuesday, February 7. More details to follow!

7th grade: We completed our unit on Looking at Art in December. Students created some amazing fish designs inspired by artists that they saw at the High Museum of Art / Atlanta in November. Students are learning to use a project planning sheet to consider how they would like to design and develop their ideas. It is a great way to incorporate writing into our art program. Students consider how they will use the Principles and Elements of Art in their design in the early stages and then continue to develop their ideas. We completed this project with a written assessment on edmodo, as well. Students were able to write about their work and answer questions describing their projects. Our next unit will include Folk Art. We will submit our work to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art Corridor Program. Work will be inspired by images of Montgomery architecture.