2014 Georgia O'Keeffe Inspired Flowers

My 5th graders were inspired by the flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe when they made these wonderful flowers, check out our Artsonia Exhibit http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=855380

September in the Alward Art Room

Wow the first month of school has flown by.  The kids and I have been discussing art at ArtPrize I love hearing about their favorite pieces.  They excitedly show me the cards they collected from artist.  The cards help us find the art work on the ArtPrize website and we vote for the pieces they like during class.

How to Set Up an Art Show

First teach really great art lessons.  

It helps when you have special art teachers.

Then add really great art that our talented students made.

Bagels are good too. 

A great big room.  

Thanks to the Hudsonville City Hall for letting us use their space.

Ladders, 

labels, some twine, hours and hours of prep are all part of it.

 Really great High School art student helpers

 Done !!

Happy Art teachers

Proud parents and honored artists. 

5th grade winter installation art

Installation art is described by Wikipedia as an artistic genre of 3-d works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space  Wikipedia

My 5th graders are taking on the mission of transforming this cold snowy winter into something magical.   They are attempting to build an ice castle as installation art.  

We need tons of these

(we are using the little ones from the lunch room now. The 1/2 gallon ones will make our building bigger and faster.)

to make these

We also need a ton of food coloring

Mouse Paint Color Mixing project

A friend of mine told me about the book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh. It is the perfect book to use to when teaching color mixing.

We drew our mice in a circle with a black crayon.

Then used red, yellow and blue paint to make our mice colorful.