Art Gala 2014

 Dale Chihuly sculpture made out of plastic bottles in honor of Earth Day. 

 The downstairs hallway was transformed into a prehistoric cave art exhibit. Students had drawn animals on brown paper and made torches with lights inside. As viewers walked through the dark cave, they held their torches up to the wall and paintings of horses, bison, mammoths, and deers were illuminated. 

Kindergarten's paper mache mushrooms.

First grade's studies on Rene Magritte, Aboriginal Handprints, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, and flowers.

 All of Elementary learned about the Terracotta army and each student sculpted a warrior out of terracotta clay. 

Fourth and fifth grade's Lichtenstein inspired self-portraits, value drawings, and Frank Stella paper sculptures. 

Kindergarten: I am Dali self-portrait drawings

More examples of student artwork coming this way, but here's a super adorable one for now. This lesson on Surrealist, Salvador Dali, was a lot of fun and so easy for young students to understand, thanks to the awesome book above that I heard of via Cassie Stephens equally awesome blog. Every page is a surreal picture in itself so I had the students look for what was surreal about each picture. My basic definition of it was art that looks real, but couldn't happen in real life. As a fun tribute to Salvador Dali, students drew self-portraits with Dali's famous mustache. You can imagine all the laughs that ensued when I showed them my own example;) Stay tuned for more drawings!