Library Winners

Shannon, director from Woodson Library came to choose the best artworks from this year to be on display at the library. Congrats to the artists she chose. Some of the winners are below:
Antonio

Arthur

Brianna

Kamaree

Chloe

Deja

Destiny

Dylan

Briana V and Iyana

Katherine

Kayla

Kenya

Makya

Mark

Mikayla

Nia

Shakeyah

Shaionta

Tysean

Zyshon

Kara Walker Take Two

 Crystal, Lashere and Jamerah kicked off the Kara Walker project by taking the pictures, getting the bulletin board paper, uploading/choosing pictures, tracing, cutting out, hanging!!  I was really impressed.  They were so independent that I think they could this project without my help. 

Two years ago, we did 8th grade silhouettes.  This year we took pictures of students from every grade including teachers and panthers.
Below is Shaniaya, Jaron and Crystal is one singingand

 Below is 1st graders Letina and Kristen

 Below are many silhouettes including Mr. Brame, Triniti, Lorraine, Zyshon

Below is a panther darting out the door

Below is Contrail, Lashamere, and others

The figures make "2012" The 8th Graders made this by lying on the floor, I was impressed!   


April is making half the number 2 below

Kenya and Allonte make a zero

Iyana and Darneisha make a zero as well

below are silhouettes making an eye...the music notes are the eye lashes, heart pupil, the baloon is the hair, can you see it?  This was originally by chance but the students worked with it after Kenya saw an eye.

1st Floor= Through the seasons

Many times are art projects are for the current season, so I dedicated the 1st floor to our seasonal artwork.

During Autumn we made pastel pumpkins, giant leafs, owls, paper mache pumpkins, and our "day of the dead" skulls.

During Winter we had made nutcrackers, snowman portraits, and our "Cold hands/warm heart" collages.

The PreK and K students each made a flower to add to our blooming spring tree.  They just glued different color circles together, starting with biggest and getting smaller and smaller. 

We designed suns/flowers using the different types of lines.  And the fireworks were a successful sub lesson.  Everyone made impressive fireworks during that day I was out.

2nd Floor=Art History

2nd floor was dedicated to our projects dealing with Art History. The PreK made the watercolor letters using masking tape, with the help of the 8th graders.  The Kindergarden Kandinsky concentric circles are on this wall as well as come projects on surrealism....

The 7th graders Miro project- more surrealism

The 6th graders Matisse Room

4th and 5th graders Picasso Guitars

6th grades "great waves"

Ms. Appiah's Class Penguins!

On the way to 3rd floor to Ndebele, you will pass our Penguins from Antartica. Ms. Appiah's class had made the penguin eggs out of paper mache.  The baby penguins are stuffed animals.  The giant penguins are made with bulletin board paper and our iceberg is boxes and bulletin board paper.

Ndebele in the building

We turned the 3rd floor into an Ndebele village. We finally got around to finishing and hanging our Ndebele houses. It was a school-side project we did in beginning of year. 6th graders did black outline, 3-5th grade painted them in, and 7th and 8th graders touched them up. School-wide projects can be tricky because many students don't want people painting over their work, but it is good practice of teamwork. The 7th graders had done their own miniature house design and K and 1st graders did Ndebele chickens displayed above the houses.

Mural week two

 Houses from left to right by Jonathan (brown), Keyana(pink), Ryshaun(red), Alex(yellow), and Juavonte (blue)

 Lashamere, Yahsyah and Kiara do some fix-ups

 Day time:

 dusk to night-time:

 House by Kenya

 House by Yahzyah

Lollipop Trees

Somehow the trees got the name "lollipop trees" because of the bright colors and round shape, and it stuck. The 8th graders worked on decorated the lollipop trees. These two students forgot to write their initials, so I will have to post artist names later.

Tree by Darneisha? maybe?

4th Grade houses

4th graders working on their houses.

 Eryn, wrong house! ;-) Eryn kept getting the other pink house mixed up with hers.  Her house has the pink-ish roof.

Brian's house, I love his color choices.

Houses by Daeshawn and Eryn

Amillion's house

Rainy Days

Mural-making was post-poned a few days due to weather. This is what happened when you start painting and it started to rain: Fortunately only one class had started to paint when it started to rain.