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Many Issues

5/12/2016

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Students finished project this week that centered around an issue of their choosing. They could look to current events and were encouraged to use content they were studying in other classes to help inform their selections. In addition to using prior knowledge, students did research using PBS LearningMedia's resources to help further their understanding and inspire the images they created. 

From endangered animals to bullying, students selected a wide variety of topics for this quick project in which they were to use 2D media to complete their works. 

Below are some highlights from the assignment: 
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Nikki O.: My problem is that our elephants are endangered of going extinct from this world. What would our be with no elephants? To me our world would be boring. I love elephants and everything about them, they are such a wonderful animal taken for granite. My art piece reflects on this issue because I drew an elephant on top of the white paint, also the cardboard and the collage looks unfinished. This is trying to say that the world would be unfinished with out the elephants here with us. This project relates to science, because it would affect the worlds food chain. We talked about the food chain this year, and if one thing is off balance the whole food chain is affected. Help save the elephants! We need these creatures in the beautiful world with us!
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Jackson l.: Drugs. Drugs, are terrible. They can tear families apart. They can destroy lifelong friendships. They can consume people and make them lose time at everything they really want to do. Make it stop.
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Ella P.: Every year in school we have health class and they talk about drugs and alcohol. But smoking is one of the things that always catches my eye, People should know that it doesn’t keep u alive it just makes you one day closer to die and makes your lungs slowly turn black and unhealthy. We have the right to stop it if we want to but some people can’t stop what they started. The word BREATHING RIGHTS is meaning, you have the right to breath with clean lungs and not become a unhealthy person. Because once you start its hard to stop.
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Sarah W.: My artwork is about World Peace. It connects to history because we were just learning about World War 2 which was anything but peaceful. My work reflects the issue because World Peace is a choice just like an update on a computer. I chose this issue because it is important to me. My issue is very important to me because there are days when I see things on the news that worry me and for sure worry other people. Nobody should have to live their life scared or nervous about what is going on around them.
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Abby B.: In my artwork, "Once Upon A Dream", I used the issue of environmental problems to create my piece. To create this piece, I used all colored pencils, and I made sure that I added lots of value to give it more of a realistic look. I choose this issue, because in my science class, we had talked about things like pollution, chemical runoff, smog, which are all environmental problems. That discussion had inspired me to create a piece that will help people understand what problems we currently face and problems that we will face in the future, caused by environmental problems. In my piece, their is a snow globe sort of thing, with a clean world inside of it. Inscribed on the bottom, it says, "Once Upon A Dream". Outside of the window, you can see a city, covered in smoke and pollution, with dead grass and trees, and multiple cars. To explain this, I have the snow globe say "Once Upon A Dream", because it was so far from happening, it was like a dream. I also included the city outside, to show how far away it was from happening. To finish it off, this was a fun but important project, and I am excited to do one like that again.
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William B.: This project is to me a really deep theme "Bullying" this person is made of a paragraph about bulling and how it hurts people in a lot of ways this is what i did because many people dont really care about bullying and dont think its a big deal but when people get bullied they they sometimes hurt them self and even kill their self. When either your the bully or the victim it is never fun because often times the bully is probably going through tough times or is getting bullied, too.
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Sooper Art 2016

5/8/2016

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I am super excited to announce that two BCWMS artist received top 15 placement in their age group for Sooper Art 2016! 

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This environmental art competition is hosted by the GRAM every year and this is the third year in a row we have had multiple BCWMS students awarded the honor of having their work on display at the GRAM and a $100 prize! 

Considering we are currently finishing up projects on a variety of issues, it is always nice to see how students interpret the environment each year this competition arrives. We will find out who receives the special top prize in each age group during the awards ceremony on May 22nd! 

​Congratulations to all of the winners! 
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Top 15 in teens, Sarah Koenes
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Top 15 in teens, Ana Ha
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Exploring Issues

5/5/2016

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This student is using Rosie the Riveter to highlight gender roles and equity.
Students are focused on issues this week. We started out by brainstorming events (both from history and today) that are concerning. Students then narrowed down their ideas, used PBS LearningMedia to find research to inform their issue, and started sketching out possible ways to address their topic through visuals.

We then looked at artists like Caledonia Curry and Barbara Kruger and how they address a variety of topics in their work before students finalized plans and started on final works.

From highlighting endangered species to calls for equal rights and bullying, students are selecting a variety of topics to explore in their art. They were limited to using 2D media and a much shorter time frame, so I am excited to see these works completed by early next week! 
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More than objects

5/2/2016

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Last week, students spent their time working with objects. They used the theme "Objects, Artifacts, and Things You Leave Behind" to explore media and ways to use symbols to represent a whole host of ideas. It was fun to see students go outside of their comfort zone and try new ways of working (one of the criteria was that they were not allowed to use a material previously used). 

The results were both exciting and insightful. You can view some of the highlights below. 
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My T.: For my art work I used water color with salt, regular paint, and made origami swans/birds. Some techniques i used was when I painted water color on my paper was that I put salt on it to add more detail to make it look more in the daylight time. Art can show the concept of the theme because the artist Mitchell Feinberg uses objects and and things you leave behind in the theme. This artist uses this because in one of their artwork they had cigarettes in it and that is an object you leave behind because once you are done with it you throw it away and don't use it again. In another artwork of theirs they had pills in it and that is an object you use that is also part of the theme.
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Samantha K.: For this art piece I used the option of creating your own scratch paper. I drew the actual picture on the original paper with oil pastels and once I was done with that I added paint to the surface of my oil pastel picture. Then I used different designs like circles, crosshatching, and just different lines to make patterns as I scratched of the paint. This picture follows the theme because the two clocks are the times of birth that my brother and I were born at, the water running down off the clocks resemble the tears that were shed during that moment of birth for me and my brother. I was inspired by Mitchell Feinberg because my brothers name is mitchell and I was also inspired by the clocks that he used in two of his pictures. That is my artwork and how I made it.
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Matt M.: For this project I chose to use paper golden venture origami to create this American flag. I chose to use this material because I thought it was a really cool thing to make stuff with and we also were not able to use materials that we used in prior projects which left me with little options. I chose to make an American flag out of this because our baseball chose to honor fallen soldiers\police officers so our country has a totally new meaning to me and means a lot. This artwork can show the artists that we studied as well because all the artists used simple objects to make their art and made things with meaning to them or to other people as well. This can show the artist Jim Dine because Jim also chose to use very simple objects to make his unique pieces of artwork like I did in my project.
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Sydney C.: The Bubble Gum Movement piece that I have made really fits the project theme, Objects, Artifacts, and Things You Leave Behind because of the materials I have used. Using gum wrappers symbolizes how many just throw away gum wrappers and leave them behind when I decided to change that and make it into a really awesome piece. Then I realized that I had to use a different material and decided that print making was the way to go. Print making is a still life that I can create into my own using a block print. First I took a side shot of my face and then I put into photoshop and traced it on a piece of paper. Then, I rubbed the trace onto the block and then carved it out using the carving tools. I then got inspiration from Andy Warhol to use pop art colors and add the word pop onto the block print. I wanted this piece to be still life and not 3 dimensional. This piece was inspired by Andy Warhol and the idea of leaving bubble gum wrappers behind.
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Ella P.: My donut hat that I made for this project show how you can take anting you want and make it into something extraordinary. What I did was take socks and turned them into a donut. I used felt and beads to create frosting and springs to decorate the donuts. Hopefully my artwork and inspire other people to make ordinary object into something cool.
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