Back to school installation

 I always like to begin each school year with a collaborative project. This year our students studied muralist Kelsey Montague. Kelsey is famous for her street art, particularly her painting of wings. For our wings, each student designed an individual feather. When all assembled our wings are super eye-catching, everyone has a new favorite selfie spot!

Halloween Hoopla

We had a few fun Halloween projects going on this year. First grade created colorful spiderwebs and Kindergarten painted their yearly jack-o’-lanterns. Fourth-graders had a different take on jack-o’-lanterns, they painted expressive pumpkins. Lastly our fifth-graders worked on spooky silhouette collages. 

Kandinsky and Abstract Art

First grade just wrapped up a unit on Russian artist Wasilly Kandinsky.  For our first assignment,  students re-created his concentric circles in paper mosaics.

Kandinsky was one of the original creators of abstract art. His major influence was music. For our second assignment students listened to classical music by Igor Stravinsky.   Students sketched out abstract designs allowing the music to direct their hand motions. Afterwords we added color to enhance the work. I absolutely adore the results!

Winter Collage

First grade made these colorful collages in response to one of our favorite winter stories, "The Mitten" by Jan Brett.

Making our Mark!

Every year I read students "the dot", it is a great story of how art can go from intimidating to inspiring. This year we did several projects to honor the dot.  Kindergarten made paper collages as well as painted dots.  First grade did wonderful Styrofoam prints.  I just adore how colorful they all look together.

Turkey Day

I don't know about you but I think it would be un-American not to make any little crafts for Thanksgiving.  Here is a preview of some of the Thanksgiving fun we had in Art with grades Pre-k through 1st.