Welcome to Our New Year and STEAM

Greetings,
It's a new school year (2015-16) and I have a lot of exciting projects, processes and techniques lined up. As we move forward with our school mission to become a STEAM academy I too am developing art lessons with this focus. Our big questions in the art room this year are "What is the Art in in Science and What is the Science in Art? Last year I created a mission statement to support the direction of my teaching and the classroom environment. Connecting to Common Core/Essential Questions my purpose it to build stronger more impactful art sessions and a more meaningful art experiences for the students.
Stay tune for some answers.

Hands on Exploration, Discover and Creativity!

Welcome to our New Year and our new direction to become a STEAM focused school
Our big Question: What is the Science in ART and What is the ART  in Science?

Picasso inspired Self Portrait Assemblages

5th grade Up Up and Away

Connecting to classroom Science standards and building on VAPA standards regarding student understanding of a Landscape, this mixed media project offers lots of creative expression within a structured step by step framework. 3 Part project...

6th grade Little Altars

This culturally connected project, builds on 6th grade world history standards and connects to Common Core objectives, allowing for lots of discussion, observation and hands on learning experiences.

Pop Gothic

Grant Wood's American Gothic meets Andy Warhol's pop printmaking colors...the result fantastic!

Weber Town II building the City

3-D sculptures-What is a City?

It's a small cookie world

Cookie people from around the world.

I provide cookie people patterns and show students how to place the entire pattern on the paper "dough" before they begin to trace. Using either regular scissors or "crazy" scissors they cut along their traced form and if time allows color a face .

Part II: time to add the "icing" so I bring out  collage materials such as stickers, bits of yarn and lace, scrapes of solid and printed papers and tissue paper. Students refer to table handout that show cultural costumes from around the world for inspiration. In the end we have very colorful "it's a small world" cookies .

Starry Night in Winter

 This two part project connects to Van Gogh's
Starry Nights masterpieces while allowing students to add their own seasonal winter creativity. Using black mat board they painted using sponges and corks in white tempera.
Let it dry.
Drew a Starry Nights inspired sky and added
buildings and or trees. Last painting with white glue for the sparkling glitter finish.