Artists in grades 9-12 repurposed rubber flooring material to create hand-cut stencils. Using donated spray paint, students created multiple portraits with each stencil, enabling them to explore color and technique to affect the mood of each piece.
Artists in grades 9-12 repurposed rubber flooring material to create hand-cut stencils. Using donated spray paint, students created multiple portraits with each stencil, enabling them to explore color and technique to affect the mood of each piece.
Artists in grades 2-5 created nature inspired wind chimes from clay, rope, and other organic materials.
In this literacy-based arts program, children practiced combining art and writing in creature journals.
Preschool artists used powdered dyes on ice to explore color mixing. As the ice melted, children made observations regarding how the dyes changed and made predictions what it might look as their ice continued to melt.
A result of the preschool ice-dyeing process: Children were surprised to see how many different colors could result from the three original colors we used.
Artists in grades 4-6 upcycled discarded materials into individual letters. These letters then became a part of a larger, movable alphabet that the children could use to assemble words or phrases.
A preschool artist explores color mixing and texture discovery with homemade foam paint.
Preschool artists explored fiber arts to create circular weavings, combined with Eric Carle's story of the Very Busy Spider
This piece was a puppet created by a preschool artist, framed by the parent.
Middle-school aged artists investigated multiple processes of creating vessels from clay and culminated their experience with a raku firing.
These enormous chalk mandalas were created in the children's community as a part of a public art lesson. Children designed and cut their own stencils, which were then used to outline their mandalas.
A preschool artist explores gelli printing with water-soluble crayons. These pages were then assembled into a book for the child to take home.
Kindergarten artists explored portraiture and were challenged to create an image that told the viewer about their personality without using symbolic imagery.
Middle school artists investigated the scientific process of creating soap via saponification. Students created unique scents and designs to their soap, carefully recording their process and then sold their products in a classroom micro-economy.
Early elementary students created clay 'fossils' from leaves collected on a group nature hike. The children then fired their pieces in a traditional outdoor pit-fire kiln. Later the pieces were excavated and the children had to work together to reassemble any broken pieces.