addition to previous post !!

My apologies ! Message had been clipped from original email.

Six of our 7th grade students were left off the previous Mini Works Awards list:

Virginia Reid, 3rd place / clay functional mixed media

Katherine Rowell, 3rd place / mixed media multiple materials

Abbie Grace Sims, honorable mention / clay functional mixed media

Aline Sluis, honorable mention / painting mixed media

Hannah Stephenson, 2nd place / mixed media multiple materials

Katie Windham, honorable mention / clay functional mixed media

Mini Art Works Awards

Congratulations to the following art students who were acknowledged in the 2011 Mini Works Art Show:

category 4th - 6th grades

Lauren Barbaro, honorable mention / mixed media multiple materials

Jordan Dennis, 1st place / clay functional mixed media

Allie Dillard, 1st place / printmaking mixed media

Anna Esco, 2nd place / clay functional mixed media

Katie Jackson, 2nd place / mixed media multiple materials

McAuley Parker, honorable mention / mixed media multiple materials

John Luke Phillips, honorable mention / sculpture additive construction

Claire Stewart, 1st place / photography mixed media

Mary Stuart Tipton, 3rd place / collage 2D

Will Windham, 2nd place / clay functional hand built

category 7th - 9th grades

Josey Aughtman, honorable mention/ mixed media multiple materials

Elizabeth Beck, 2nd place / clay functional mixed media

Jackson Byrd, 1st place / graphic design mixed media

Chloe Champion, honorable mention / collage 3D

Francesca Ferrell, 1st place / printmaking mixed media

Madison Gillis, honorable mention / drawing color

Gray Godwin, best of category / mixed media multiple materials

Trent Harris, 2nd place / sculpture additive construction

Bekah Hitchcock, 2nd place / collage 2D

Hudson Hufham, 2nd place / digital imagery computer graphics photo manipulation

Addison Love, honorable mention / mixed media multiple materials

Drew Meany, honorable mention / photography color

Meredith Moore, 1st place / clay functional mixed media

Katie Morrow, honorable mention / drawing color

An awards ceremony will be held at the Montgomery Academy Hill Hall, Wilson Theater on Sunday, April 10, 2011. The art exhibit opens at 2:00 and the awards ceremony will begin at 2:30 with event ending by 4:00. K - 6th grade work will be display on Middle School Art Hall (level 2), 7th - 12th grade work will be on display on Upper School Art Hall (level 1) and ALL Best of Show and 1st place work will be on display in Wilson Theater. The awards ceremony moves quickly with an outdoor reception afterward.

I am sending home an invitation for those students receiving awards ! Congratulations to all students who participated in the art show.

Great Work !!

Alabama Wildlife Federation: artwork finalists !

Congratulations to the following 6th grade students whose artwork was selected for the Alabama Wildlife Federation 2011 William R. Ireland Sr. Youth Wildlife Art Contest.

2nd period: Carolyn Albritton, Katie Jackson, McAuley Parker, Allie Ramsey, Lizzie Swearingen

3rd period: Sophie Burks, Allie Dillard, Adam Hall, Whitney Hicks, J. Payne, Mary Todd Romanowski, Brian Roth

4th period: Sydney Bassett, Ben Cowart, Ethan Gentry, Mary Carmen Haynes, Sam Nunn, John Luke Phillips, Claire Stewart, Mary Stuart Tipton, Will Windham

The 6th grade students used the internet to research wildlife indigenous to the state of Alabama. Selecting their own subject matter, the students created an original work of art with the media of their choice. This is always a fun project and a great way to integrate science, geography and art !! Winners will be notified by April 4. Award ceremony will be Saturday, April 16 at the AWF's headquarters in Millbrook. Best of luck to our students !!

What's next?

7th grade will continue to work on their self portraits integrating the 7 elements of design.

6th grade will study line patterns and design a shoe. We will work on technical aspects of painting as we transfer the designs to canvas, and study color / value in this design challenge.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break !!

2nd Period Cake Design ! 200th Season Congratulations for Coach Rags !!

week of feb. 14

Happy Valentines Week !

7th grade has completed their birdhouses for the Sunshine Center. I will take photographs so each child has a picture to keep ! These will be wonderful gifts for the host families of the fundraising events.

6th grade has divided, per class, to work on several projects:

2nd period is working a a cake design for Coach Rags. (Thank you for sending supplies, baking portions of the 3 tier cake, and making fondant!)

3rd period made "giving from the heart" boxes for the lower school service project supporting school supplies for Nehemiah House. These boxes will be displayed in lower school hallway / pods.

4th period has been busy designing individual medals for the Trinity 5K / Fun on Saturday, February 26. These will be given to the 1st place and overall winners for the various age categories.

Whew ! I can't even believe that we are just beginning work for the Alabama Wildlife art contest and the Mini Art Works art competition. More info on these event to come !!

2nd period / 6th grade CAKE DESIGN Items needed

2nd period is preparing for our cake design project for Coach Ragsdale !

We walked through the process in class and have assigned students to bring items for our work.

We are planning to begin on Monday, February 14 in class.

We will need the following items by Friday, February 11:

mini marshmallows: Preston McAdams, Andrew Martin, Jordan Dennis, James Wilder, Madison Tylicki and Lizzie Swearingen.

buttercream icing premade / grocery store: Jackson Sharpe, Charlie Trotman, Marshall Dean, Joseph Curtis, Cole Brown

powdered sugar: Katie Jackson, Anthony Singleton, Allie Ramsey, Carolyn Albritton, McAuley Parker

I am getting all boxes of cake mix, saran wrap, latex-free gloves, wax paper, cardboard base.

I also have 3 tier cake pans, fondant roller, icing kit, food coloring, icing knife.

The following students have volunteered to make cakes with cake mix and pans provided: Tyler Hale, Cooper Humphrey, Mary Margaret Easterling.

The girls want to get together in groups to make the fondant. (I told them it was messy, but fun. They will need lots of crisco shortening on their hands)

I am going to send home a copy of Easy Rolled Fondant Recipe with girls on Friday.

We will begin working on layers, in class, on Monday. McAuley Parker won the class design competition. Her work expresses the 200th win season, a football field, football players, and paw prints. Should be fun !!

3rd and 4th periods will work on their cake design in the next weeks. We will take lots of pictures !

paint on clothes !

I am not only a teacher, but a Trinity mother. Seeing paint on uniforms does not make me happy !!! I am trying so hard to remind the students to Be Careful. I have looked in to smocks to wear, but the challenges are the following:

don't cover sleeves,

don't cover collars,

don't always cover skirts/shorts/pants,

cost to purchase a smock per student (they will have paint on them from class period to class period),

where to store 108 smocks in our classroom.

I do have several students who have brought t-shirts to pull over their uniform when we paint ! I am going to encourage all students to bring an OLD men's dress shirt. I am going through John's closet (and his dad's) this weekend !! I will also check with some of the tuxedo rental stores for Old shirts that they may let us have. Let's see what we can come up with to SAVE OUR UNIFORMS !! This shirt style works great when you can turn the shirt backwards. It will cover collar, sleeves, shorts/skirts and will keep art costs down.

I am going to use a clothes line and good old fashioned clothes pins to hang shirts. I can put brown paper on wall behind to keep paint off wall. Hopefully this will solve our dilemma and keep our artist creating some great artwork without the expense of a uniform !!