The ups and downs in the weather ensure us that Spring is here in Chicago. Students in the Smyser Art program have been creating art of all kinds as we begin to slowly wrap up quarter 3.
The first grade students have been learning about their storytelling unit. Students are investigating artwork seen in their favorite stories and using the illustrations as inspiration for new pieces of art. Students created quilts based on Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, and also used special filter papers to create tie-dye paper for a unit on The Rainbow Fish.
Third grade artistes completed their unit on musical instruments and learned about advertisements and how visual images can persuade an audience to like something. Next, students will be create nature inspired mosaics and watercolor paintings to connect to their spring haiku poetry they have been working on in their classrooms.
Fourth grade artists are learning about artists who incorporate cartography and used atlases into their work. Their connected maps will go along with their architecture. Students will soon being learning about Pop Art into fourth quarter and learning about learning in perspective.
The upper grade are finishing a portrait unit that also ties in with advertisement and marketing. Students in sixth grade are completing magazine cover designs. Seventh and eighth artists finish their acrylic painting projects that centered around Fauvism, and art style that utilized bright, vivid colors and bold brushstrokes. Students have transitioned in Surrealism and they are creating artwork that is also inspired by dreams, memories, and unconscious thoughts.
In other news, Global Art Club members helped paint the scenery for the choir and dance performance for this coming Thursday.
Congrats to the Artists of the Month:
109 - Jeremiah Dean
1st - Andrew Kusar
3rd - Angelique Negrillo
4th - Gabriel Drah
5th - Joselin Alvarez
6th - Andri Guzman
7th - Eileen Gonzalez
8th - Sean Subijano
The first grade students have been learning about their storytelling unit. Students are investigating artwork seen in their favorite stories and using the illustrations as inspiration for new pieces of art. Students created quilts based on Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, and also used special filter papers to create tie-dye paper for a unit on The Rainbow Fish.
Third grade artistes completed their unit on musical instruments and learned about advertisements and how visual images can persuade an audience to like something. Next, students will be create nature inspired mosaics and watercolor paintings to connect to their spring haiku poetry they have been working on in their classrooms.
Fourth grade artists are learning about artists who incorporate cartography and used atlases into their work. Their connected maps will go along with their architecture. Students will soon being learning about Pop Art into fourth quarter and learning about learning in perspective.
The upper grade are finishing a portrait unit that also ties in with advertisement and marketing. Students in sixth grade are completing magazine cover designs. Seventh and eighth artists finish their acrylic painting projects that centered around Fauvism, and art style that utilized bright, vivid colors and bold brushstrokes. Students have transitioned in Surrealism and they are creating artwork that is also inspired by dreams, memories, and unconscious thoughts.
In other news, Global Art Club members helped paint the scenery for the choir and dance performance for this coming Thursday.
Congrats to the Artists of the Month:
109 - Jeremiah Dean
1st - Andrew Kusar
3rd - Angelique Negrillo
4th - Gabriel Drah
5th - Joselin Alvarez
6th - Andri Guzman
7th - Eileen Gonzalez
8th - Sean Subijano