Cherry Creek Art Festival's Mobile Art Gallery is Coming!

Coming Soon…Specials Night!

February 29, 2012 6:00pm – 8:00pm

The Cherry Creek Art Festival's Mobile Art Gallery will be here that night as part of our SCFD Alliance Grant. There will large and small sculptures, drawings, and paintings on display in the kiva from February 21-March 20.  I will be recruiting students to set up and strike the show and other students to be docents for the gallery. 

February Art News

What’s happening at the Mountain View Art Studio?

It’s an exciting time for students in grades 1-5. We are opening the sculpture center and students are eager to get their hands on the materials.  I am stressing the idea of transformation with their sculptural work.  Viewers of the work should have a hard time guessing the materials that were used to make it (a lotion bottle shouldn’t still look like a lotion bottle!).  And the form should speak for itself.  There is a lot of active problem solving happening as students have to figure out how to make things stick, balance, and look transformed.  As you see these wonderful creations come home, remember that is this student-centered work.  Ask your students questions about their process, about their intention, and what their next steps might be.

Kindergarten students are continuing the learning of the elements of art.  We are exploring texture by pressing common objects into the clay.  We are learning that textures are all around our world and that artists use textures to give pattern and interest to their work.  Our texture study will extend to collage and printmaking in the spring.

Look for more 3-dimensional work coming home and on display as we start focusing on more types of sculpture.  Mask making, paper-maché and 3-D architecture will also be available.

January Art News

Art News

What’s happening at the Mountain View Art Studio?

Students in grades 2-5 have been working hard in the studio.  The students are very interested in photography right now.  The art room has 3 digital cameras and students are taking photographs within the school. They are focusing on lines, shapes, textures, and shadows and learning that Point of View can change an ordinary picture into a work of art.  

More and more student work is now up in the kiva and the new wing hallway.  Students make their own decisions about which artworks get displayed and what they want us to know about the artwork through their artist statement. We will be examining the artistic process further this winter.  Determining when an art work is finished, self-evaluation/reflection and creating pre-plan can all help to push and stretch our abilities and our thinking further.

1^st grade and Kindergarten students have had a modified studio experience.  We’ve done some drawing, painting, collage, and clay sculpture as a whole class.  Students are transitioning to make their own choices during class while still learning the basic elements of art; line, color, shape, texture, form, space, and value. 

Coming Soon…Specials Night!

February 29, 2012 6:00pm – 8:00pm

The Cherry Creek Art’s Festival Mobile Art Gallery will be here that night as part of our SCFD Alliance Grant. There will large and small sculptures, drawings, and paintings on display in the kiva from February 21-March 20.  I will be recruiting students to set up and strike the show and other students to be docents for the gallery.

Below are some photographs taken by 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.