8th Grade Ocean Mural

8th grade students created an AMAZING ocean mural in connection with Environmental Education Awareness Week. Our mural canvas was supplied to us through Fredrix Art Canvas and the Wyland Foundation. Our theme was 'Celebrate Oceans Beauty...Keep it Clean'.

2010 Has Been Busy!

Our art department at ACS has been so busy the second half of the school year! I haven't even had time to keep this blog updated!
Here are some highlights:

In February, our 8th graders helped raised funds for their upcoming DC trip in June by selling Valentine cards! The fundraiser was also for the Carla Cowell scholarship fund. The handmade cards were a huge hit! We raised $279 in a few short days!

In March, we celebrated Youth Art Month! We were fortunate enough to have a visiting artist come to our school thanks to the Pamlico County Arts Council. Tunde Afolayan was a wonderful experience for our kids and we were able to have two workshops for the 4th and 5th grade. Below are images from his visit. You can also check out Tunde's website at, www.tundevisualart.com

Painting to Begin!

7th grade will begin painting their clay animals this week! 'Celebrate Creativity'!

Oaxacan Clay Animals!

7th grade students have created amazing clay animals in art class! These animals were inspired by the Oaxacan wood carvings produced in Mexico. Oaxacan wood carvings is a form of folk art in their country and are painted with elaborate colors and patterns. This is a picture from our 1st semester 7th grade class before the animals were fired in the kiln and painted. Our 2nd semester 7th grade class clay animals will be posted soon! Stay tuned!

Fun with Bulletin Boards!

Integrating math in art is always a fun twist! 3rd grade students are learning about place value in math...thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. To create artwork with this concept we talked about the artist Wayne Thiebaud who makes paintings of yummy desserts!...sometimes 15 cakes in one painting! We chose a 4-digit number to begin- for example: 4,635. The thousands place equaled a cake, the hundreds place equaled a pie, the tens place equaled an ice cream cone, and the ones equaled a cupcake! The artwork is made up of these images according to the number they chose. Delicious!

View the entire gallery of artwork at:
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=212594

Drawing Figures

2nd grade students practiced their hand at figure drawing with wooden mannequins. They used watercolor pencils to draw and then had fun painting them!

Celebrating Eric Carle's 'Read for the Record' Day

To celebrate Eric Carle's stories and illustrations, many art classes recreated images inspired from his work. You can check out some of the projects at: http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=12459 Pictured is a 4th grade class making animals from the book, 'Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear?' by Eric Carle. Check out Eric Carle's website!
http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

Welcome Back ACS Artists!

Are you ready for the journey?












Marc Chagall, 'The Blue House' 1917.

Fun Art Websites for Kids

Updated at the right, I have now included fun art websites to visit and explore. Some of these websites are familiar to ACS students, like Mr. Picasso Head and Jackson Pollock. Have fun with these art adventures!

Artsonia

Please visit our School Page on Artsonia: The link below takes you directly to the artwork published in the 2008-2009 school year. I can't wait to get the 2009-2010 year rolling!

Arapahoe Charter School Page: Artsonia















This artwork was created by a Kindergarten student. Inspired by Kandinsky's 'Farbstudie Quadrate'. You can view this and many other works of art on the Arapahoe Charter School Artsonia school page. Remember to view past exhibits!