First grade students explored building with squares and rectangles for their first art class this new school year.
Play is a great method for students to learn and explore while engaging their imaginations.
Students used the brightly colored shapes to create buildings, animals, flying machines and objects that can only be found through the creative process.
This was a great opening project to engage the students’ minds, hands and imaginations through visual art.
Our first project of the 2016-2017 school year began with building.
Kindergarten students explored building with 3D geometric shapes.
Everyone was fully engaged as they explored building towers, castles and houses of the future.
We also explored building bridges and skyscrapers.
Learning through play builds skills that young artists use throughout their educational experience. It’s great to start art off with fun!
Sixth grade students have been developing bugs from 3D shapes.
After researching bugs and the shape of bugs, students were given a cylinder to use to create their bug.
Everyone had different ideas on how to begin building a 3D shape.
Most students began with painting their cylinder.
As the process of building continued the students’ creativity grew.
Everyone worked at a different pace, fostering an environment of mutual encouragement.
Students were required to do problem solving as they built their bugs.
There were many collaborations during the creative process as students aided each other. I am looking forward to seeing their completed creations.
Fourth grade students from Richmond School completed their final project: a collective sculpture based on the art of Jean Dubuffet.
First everyone completed painting their section of the sculpture white.
Next students began to add color and lines based on the ideas of Jean Dubuffet, who used the limited pallet of red, blue, black and white.
Fourth graders learned to work as a group as they built and painted their sculpture.
Jean Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l’art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colors red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl paint.
Here are three views of the students’ sculpture on display at the Art Junction in New Haven, Ohio.
Come view the paintings of Richmond School’s 6th grade visual art students, digital photography of the 5th grade students, and cooperative sculpture by the 4th grade students under the direction of artist/teacher Kevin Casto. 6th grade students explored the theme of popular culture with mixed media on 16 x 20” canvases. 5th grade students explored their environment through digital photography, and 4th grade students created a cooperative sculpture based on the art of Jean Dubuffet. PLEASE SUPPORT the emerging art talents of these young artists by attending their exhibition this spring as they visually express themselves and the greater community around them.
The students’ paintings and photographs will be on sale during the exhibit. All proceeds from the sale of their artwork will be placed in the art fund for the Elementary Art Program. We hope you will participate! Their artwork would be a great addition to your home, business or organization!
The Art Junction is located at 2634 Prairie Street New Haven, OH next to the New Haven United Methodist Church.
The Art Junction is a community-based art education program designed to bring gallery space, local art exhibitions, lessons and creative opportunities to the Willard area for adults, teens, seniors, and children to learn to create together a better community! For more information on this or future programs at the Art Junction contact Kevin Casto M.A., Director, at 419-935-3404, Email theartjuction@yahoo.com or visit our blog http://theartjunctionwillardohio.wordpress.com
Fourth grade students have been exploring the art and sculptures of Jean Dubuffet.
Jean Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l’art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colors red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl paint.
Students began working in groups. Each group was responsible for a different part of the sculpture.
The fourth graders planned their part of the sculpture and began the process of creating their sculptural element.
Each group (and there are twelve groups in all) is making a different part of the sculptural figure.
Everyone worked with recycled materials and glue as the forth grades worked together to create the sculpture.
It’s exciting to see the students work together and prepare to paint in our next studio session.
As the 2014-2015 school year dawns my first task as an art teacher is to build and awaken the dormant creative spirit that lies within all my students.
Our first project in kindergarten is to explore building with shapes.
Students are given a variety of shapes and building materials as they process to create sculptural inventions.
Students have been very inventive with their creations.
First grade students have been using a different building material that is based upon squares and rectangles.
This building medium has required the students to view construction from a cubistic standpoint.
Students will use these introductory sessions of building in their creative explorations this school year.
Art has a way of engaging the whole learning experience as students will carry their creative experience into the rest of their school day.
I hope that you will follow us this year on our creative journey.
The students are excited to learn, and maybe their experience will inspire you!
Artmanews! 