ART CANOE

Fabiola Jean-Louis’  art exhibit at the DuSable Museum, Rewriting History: paper gowns and photographs, is an inquiry into social change.  artwork by Lesley  Dill Students looked at various resources for their "clothing as art" inspirations. Contemporary art goes beyond the canvas. Students brought in their own clothing to manipulate and to create an art piece. Berlin Wall (student work) Amelia Earhart

Students watched this video today about a map artist that exhibited at the British Library! Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art - Stephen Walter's The Island

In art class, we have been exploring how artists tell stories with maps and photos. 5th graders had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the photojournalism editing and publishing process with National Geographic Senior Editor (live via webcam and Google Hangouts). Students are now working on their own story maps using an explorer mindset.

#7thgrade #perspective #roughdraft #drawing @questpalatine #arteducation #art #arted A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Oct 13, 2017 at 8:09am PDT

#4thgrade atmospheric #painting with #monochromatic featuring #stpetersburg #morocco and analogous #color #palette @questpalatine #questknights #arteducation A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Oct 13, 2017 at 7:58am PDT

The 8th graders are working on graphite shading techniques and proportion in their self portraits. They also took their own photos for the pencil drawings. 8th gr. #selfportrait #art #arted @questgifted #questknights A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Sep 19, 2017 at 7:37am PDT

6th Grade #watercolor on canvas and watercolor paper #questknights @questgifted #art #arted #arteducation A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Sep 11, 2017 at 9:38am PDT

#photography #phototransfer experiment for 4th gr #popart project #questknights #questacademy @questgifted #arted #mixedmedia #selfie A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Sep 6, 2017 at 7:15am PDT

Students went to the west campus to photograph all the beautiful wild flowers in Quest's green nature space. They cropped the photos to create interesting compositions for their paintings. 7th Gr #art #arted flower #canvas #painting #vangogh #contemporaryart inspiration @questgifted #questknights #questacademy A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Sep 1, 2017 at 6:52am PDT

Students made wire armatures of various sport positions and covered them with plaster of paris strips. They made bases out of reused canvases.

In less than 2 weeks, the 6th grade will go on a field trip to the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Frank Lloyd Wright Studio. This trips correlates directly with what the student's have been studying in their Spanish and Art classes.

5th Grade Pop Art Gifs

Fine arts fair by Hether Hoffmann

First time on #pottery wheel! 6th gr! #arteducation #questknights #questgifted A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Apr 12, 2017 at 8:55am PDT 6th gr #ceramics #maker face mug A post shared by Artquest (@repeatingpattern) on Apr 12, 2017 at 8:51am PDT

After studying Kandinski (https://g.co/kgs/Cqrkev) and Joan Miró, students sketched and doodled 5o symbols in order to create their own abstract style for the umbrella painting.

After discussing and looking at dragons from around the world and listening to a couple of versions of St. George and the Dragon, students created their own stylistic illustration. Some students made changes to the story with a heroine; others changes the setting or climate. After using the Chrome app, voice recorder, to record their story, students uploaded their podcast to Google drive and created a QR code. Listen to their stories by scan the codes.

Students are combining their illustration skills, calligraphy, gold/silver leaf, and mixed media to create amazing illuminated manuscripts. Some students have started on their chair projects based on their own stories. The chair project becomes the setting, character, or an object from the story. It is a scuplture project where students will use plaster of paris, painting, feathers, colored cellophane, wire, model magic, wood, etc. ro create their own 3-D visual interpretation from their story. Below, is a slide show of illuminated manuscripts.

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For each art project, Haiku is used to create a project page contains videos, links, handouts, artist ex., etc. Student and parents can access this page at anytime. This a great resource that can allow students to preview, review, or move ahead (allowing for individual pacing).  For the Monument project, students will be having a back channel discussion using Padlet.com while watching a documentary about the Vietnam Memorial designer/artist, Maya Lin. See the trailer below. Monument Project Haiku screenshot: 8th Grade art project page with links, handouts, and student examples

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Demo: handbuilding techniques with coils, slabs, and subtractive carving Student masks ready for bisque firing Masks ready for bisque fire    

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Students have been working on cityscapes using an airplane viewpoint perspective. While the STEAM movement has been pushing making and innovation, it is ultimately important to be able to draw and have foundational design thinking about what you want to make or innovate.

8th Grade teapots being unloaded from the bisque kiln firing. Bamboo, roses, and other inspirational teapot forms!  Ceramics in the art room connects to all the STEAM/Maker movement aspects through design thinking (research/sketching), preto/proto-typing(clay building, form, function, engineering), glazing(science), kiln firing(math/science).  8th Graders just finished hand building their teapots using coil, slab, and pottery wheel forms. The teapots were bisque kiln fired last week, glazed this week, and will be glaze kiln fired next week.

We will be starting our African clay mask unit. The students have access to video and link resources in Google classroom. This is what may be called a flipped or semi-flipped classroom by having the resources available ahead of time and/or for review. See this link:  Dragon Google Art Classroom . Screenshot of links in 5th gr Google Classroom