Maple Grove is hosting a Family Involvement Night this Thursday, Jan. 29th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.
I will have a booth set up to share about the art program, ways to talk about art in the world around you, and arts in the greater community area. Look for the ART IS EVERYWHERE poster and come say hi! There will even be a raffle for a copy of one of our favorite books in the art room, Beautiful Oops.
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An art education colleague shared this article with me and I think it has some excellent info on why arts education is important for kids and how collaborative projects (like many we do in art class and will do in art club after school) can help kids develop social intelligence and important social skills for communicating and successfully working with others. Check it out here!
The Portland Art Museum is an amazing place to visit! We have some phenomenal artworks housed right in our back yard at the PAM! The modern and contemporary permanent collection is particularly great. Most of the pieces were collected by Clement Greenberg, an important art historian and critic. I recently visited the museum and took some pictures of some of my favorites from the permanent collection. Many of the artists that we study in class have artworks that you can see in real life at the museum. Artists like Monet, Picasso, Nevelson, Calder, and many more! The museum is open 10-5 everyday except Monday and kids under 17 are FREE! 6th grade finished their Music in Art unit that included three projects inspired by three different musical styles. We listened to classical music and students created a "Music in My Head" artwork. They drew their silhouette and filled it with how the music made them feel or what they saw in their head when they listened to the music. We learned a new art technique called Zentangle that focuses on line, pattern, and repetition. We related this style to jazz music how beats often repeat and for basic patterns for other instruments to play off. There is also an element of spontaneity in Zentangle since there is no erasing and it is done in pen from the beginning, which we also related to jazz. We listened to jazz and students created an original Zentangle artwork inspired by the music and its movement. The final project was Music Abstraction. We looked at the art of Kandinsky and other modern painters that pioneered abstract art. The class discussed how they could see movement in many of the artworks and they could see how music might have inspired them. Students had free choice in their abstract art. The only parameters were it had to be abstract and inspired by the electronic music we were listening to, which made for some amazing unique artworks. Finally, students wrote artist statements describing their choices and inspiration for all three projects. We finally finished our Egyptian art unit in 6th grade! We integrated history into our projects paired with the lessons students were learning in their history and language arts class. We studied the art found in Tutankhamen's tomb and made pharaoh masks. We also learned about the sons of Horus and canopic jars. Students chose a son of Horus to depict and made a canopic jar sculpture with paper mache. |
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