OPEN STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT
Mrs. Switzer and National Art Honor Society will be holding Open Studio time Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2:30 - 5:00 in room 243.
Anyone who wants to work on art can stay after at this time.
SEARCHING for MEANING...
Looking for Meaning in Art? Good! because that's the goal of our semester. As we explore the art elements and various art media, we will be making deeper connections to a Big Idea. Some of the Big Ideas we will delve into will be: SYMBOLS, POWER, PLACE, IDENTITY.
We may examine more Big Ideas than this, or we may just wallow in each of these until we are saturated with all the contents of their possibilities.
Get ready to dive in!!!
More Information BELOW POSTS.
Read posts for important information about what we are learning in class and chances for extra credit below. Then find information for ways to earn make-up points and how to read the Parent Viewer, followed by the Calendar with info on what we do in class at the very bottom. You can also look at the Blog Archive for additional posts.
I couldn't believe it when I opened my FB today and saw a post from NPR announcing the capture and arrest of the notorious Boston crime boss, Whitey Bulger! If you remember from our last unit in class, The Gardner Art Theft, he was the FBI's #2 most wanted man behind Osama Bin Laden and believed at a time to know something about the big art theft at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner art Museum. I wonder now if we will learn more about the whodunnit or if the Gardner theft will still remain a mystery.
Here's a link to the short blurb I first saw this morning...
NPR - Gangster Whitey Bulger CAPTURED!
Wow!
Intro to Art Currently
Current Unit: Heroes
Current Project: Calaveras Hero Relief Portraits
Project Description: You will create a portrait painting with elements of relief & 2-D depth that honors a personal hero.
The face will be constructed from a papier mache mask and attached to a flat surface. The surrounding flat surface will provide a painted scene with a foreground, middle ground, and background for your hero (the mask). You should use what you know about creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface to enhance the feeling of space around the figure.
DUE: November 2nd
Past Projects: Street Art Symbolic Artwork
