Sad to say, but we will have to take a break from making art in the Bright Studio for a couple weeks while our city works on staying healthy. This doesn't mean that you need to take a break from being creative and developing your skills though! I've created a 10-day drawing challenge for you to try out over the next two weeks, and I am excited to see what you come up with. All grades are welcome to participate. Send me pictures of what you create and I will try to post them here for everyone to see!
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My 2nd-8th grade classes have all begun our yearly paper-mache bonanza! We are using all the tape, glue, and newspaper we can find to build awesome sculptures for our spring art show. Second grade is beginning to create paper-mache balloons, third grade is creating Egyptian-style jars, fourth grade is creating biome landscapes, fifth grade is creating dioramas of monuments, and middle school are creating symbolic hybrid creatures.
If you have access to some used newspapers, please bring them in! We need dozens! We just concluded our field trips to the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Chicago, affectionately known as MOCA. Our 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students visited the museum to see what contemporary art looks like today. Students got to interact with the work, watch short artist videos, and received a personal tour from a local artist. Students were quick to point out that the art in the museum was weird - such as the motorized ponytail attached to the wall, but that the art made them think a little differently about what it means to be an artist.
Fourth grade is preparing to build a plant or landscape from a chosen biome. To prepare, we drew and painted pictures of what we wanted our sculptures to look like. Over half of the class selected the desert as their chosen biome, and so you will see a lot of cacti in the pictures below. Despite similar choices, students still found ways to make their ideas stand out from the rest!
Fifth grade continues their studies of cities by learning about various monuments and memorials around the world. We viewed and discussed a great variety of monuments, and then students selected an important idea/person/thing to create their own monument for. Below students are painting a proposal for the monument they will build in the coming weeks out of paper mache! Students are first creating a depiction of the location of their monument, and then they will use tracing paper to impose their monument over their painting.
1st grade just had a blast re-creating Monet's "Bridge Over Waterlilies" in class. We read a short story about Monet, focusing on "OW" blend words such as "flowers", "towers", "brown" and "down". Then, we learned a little about Monet himself and his many, many paintings. Finally, we tried to draw and paint one of Monet's most famous works, "Bridge Over Waterlilies". You can see the students working below!
Brrrrrrrrrrr! Pre-K has been learning about arctic animals. This week we focused on cuddly penguins! Pre-K students practiced following directions and creating patterns. They loved mixing paint and made some very adorable art!
Second grade continues through their poetry unit as they read a poem about winter trees, and now have the opportunity to paint them! Students were required to include birch trees and snow in their paintings, but otherwise were able to make their own decisions about the sky, background, and smaller details. I love seeing the different color choices each student makes when they have the opportunity to experiment and try something fun!
Wow. Our 5th grade students have some serious talent. They have been researching various cities around the world, and selected one city to draw based on it's unique architecture. Students carefully drew with pencil and pen to re-create their favorite buildings in their selected city. These little images belong on postcards; they are so fantastic!
Our third grade class has been reading legends, stories, and folktales from various cultures around the world, and just recently concluded their exploration of the Aztec Gods. Students read the tale of the 5 apocalypses and learned about the various Gods participating in the stories. Then, after seeing examples of mosaic Aztec Masks, students selected a character, god or creature, from the story to depict in mask form. Students used paper and glue to re-create the beautiful mosaic texture often seen in Aztec art.
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Ms. KatzenbachMs. "Katz" is a teaching artist, with specialties in painting and video. She graduated from the University of Illinois with both a bachelors and a masters in Art Education. This will be Ms. Katz's 8th year teaching at O.T. Bright Elementary School. Archives
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