Category: Arts A La Mode

Weeks Seventeen and Eighteen

5/31/2018

Arts a la Mode

For ten years our school has hosted an Empty Bowls event. It has gone through a few changes since we began to participate in this program that was started nearly 30 years ago by a group of artists who wanted to use art as a call to action to raise food and funds to combat food insecurity in their communities.

I am very thankful for those who have come out over the years to support families in our community by donating to this cause. This year's even was particularly special because of our band director's retirement. He has been an awesome partner in this project and I am excited for him and his family as he begins a new chapter in his life.

2018 Arts ala Mode - Mr. Klein Recognition (Byron Center West Middle School) from Steve Harryman on Vimeo.

We also got to use a lot of our DonorsChoose.org funded projects during this event. It was great fun to see the button maker we received in action during this community event. It was a HUGE hit! Many students, siblings, and parents made buttons (some more than one) and sported them for the evening.

We also got a chance to showcase our ArtPrize piece, of which I have an exciting update to share!

It was an awesome night to celebrate our Arts programs at WMS. My favorite part of it was seeing students step up in leadership roles and really take charge of the evening. This is something I want to do more of with my students and find additional leadership opportunities for them to share their knowledge and love of Art with others through acts of service.

Thank you TangerKIDS Program!

I like writing grants. I have presented about it at conferences and helped others write their grants and projects for their classrooms. I actually love helping others with theirs (even more than mine). I got started with grant writing because someone helped me and I look at helping others as a way of paying it forward.

Thanks to a more recent effort with the TangerKIDS program, we gained the needed funds to help our National Scholastic Gold Medalist get to the celebration at Carnegie Hall. We are so thankful for the opportunity this grant allows this student and our program in promoting a legacy of excellence.

I am particularly excited to attend the celebration, too, because it is also the ten year anniversary of my first National Scholastic Medalist and trip to NYC!

When Old Becomes New

To finish up the semester, students worked on one of my favorite themes: Something Old, Something New. This theme asks students to go into their portfolios and rework ideas from the past, showing they have grown in skill and understanding since that original work was created.

Here are some of the works students created as a result of this prompt:

Brayden: I did Photoshop because its fun and it looks good. I used a portrait from last year to change and make much better. I did better on craft, creativity, content, and composition. For example, The creativity is a lot better, and it looks a lot cooler and better. Also it is more neat. The last one looked like scribbles, and this one is real, and much nicer. I wanted to do Photoshop because I like the effects of it.

Olivia: In this artwork we had to create a new version of an older artwork we made and I decided to redo my observational shoe drawing from last year. To make this artwork better I made it more creative by spraying yellow water color around the shoe. Another way that I improved this artwork is by the composition. I added more color and because I used complimentary colors I think it added a better rhythm to the piece. I really wanted to revisit this idea because I never really got to finish it last year and I knew that I could make it a lot more creative if I used everything that I learned in class this year.

Alex: This piece of art is a recreation of my continuous line portrait “Tears of Destiny.” To improve this piece I used opacity and different color strokes as a new form of craft. I also used more things to fill the space like the bandana for more creativity. My personal connection to this art was that the original piece of this art was not created very well. I wanted to revisit it to make it better and show that I improved as an artist.

Ellie: I decided to use the technique of drawing, because I have never done it before. I wanted to try it so that eventually I can improve and get better at drawing. I used the art element of color because the gray portrait pops when it is against the blue background. I used the Creativity C because I used a new technique where I put swirls on the paper in washable markers, and then I put water color over them to smear them out. I also used the Craft C because I took my time to make it the best that I can. I decided to recreate this piece because I could see that I didn't do my very best the first time, so I wanted to do another piece that I took a longer time and did my very best.

Adam: In fifth grade, I drew a polar bear that was an okay piece of artwork. This year, I recreated the drawing. This time with paint. I definitely improved my art skills since then. This is because I used craft, creativity, composition, and content to make a great piece of artwork. For example, my craft improved a lot. It took me a lot of effort to draw it, and then paint it. Also, I used content because of the value on the polar bear. The darker colors emphasis shadows and highlights on the bear. I chose to revisit the idea of the polar bear because it was something that I knew I could do better on.

Faith: For this project I chose to remake was from project challenge 2:spaces and places. The piece that I did with project challenge 2, was a sun set on the beach. I really liked drawing out all of the things in that piece and I liked the materials that I got to use such as pencils and colored pencils. Although that piece still turned out pretty good, I felt that it wasn't my best work and I could do better and I really wanted to push myself on this last project. So I decided to take a picture that I had taken when I was on vacation in the great smoky mountains and look at it and draw what was in the picture. Some of the materials that I used in my last piece in project challenge 2 was that I had to draw everything out before I colored all of it. For this project I decided that I really wanted to work with different values with pencils and I thought that the picture that I took would be a perfect one because of the mountains. One of the four Cs that I used when creating this piece was craft. This is true because the way that I made this piece was with all different shading pencils and that was all I used because I really like the way that they looked. One other of the four Cs that I used in this piece is creativity. This is true because I think that this piece was pretty original because of the materials that I used because it seems like there seems to be a lot of pieces that use landscape and draw them. The reason I wanted to revisit this idea was because of how much I enjoyed making project challenge 2 but I really felt that I could push myself to do better then I did the 1st time. The personal connection that I have to this piece is I absolutely loved going to the great smoky mountains for vacation. It was my most favorite place that I had ever been to and I have been there twice and just loved being there and seeing the scenery so I decided that I could use one of the pictures from when I went there and use it in my art work.

Focusing on Math in STEAM

To close out our STEAM units for the semester, I asked students to create a work that employs math concepts in their work. Leaving the door open to a variety of options, I was a little nervous with what students would do for this one.

Students selected so many interesting options for their work and made new connections between math and art concepts to do so. It was fun to see them go through their works and land on finished pieces.

Here is a sampling of their work:

Sophia: For this math project, I decided to do origami because it seemed fun and it was something I have never done before. To make this, I created different sized 3D triangles using different colored paper. Then I arranged them in a frame (not shown in the picture) for a cleaner look. This relates to math because I had to measure the lengths of the triangles to create them and arrange them together using their angles. I like this project because it is clean cut and organized, but also fun.

Khiem: In this art I used angles and perspective from the filming unit. To make a video interesting you need different perspective so I took that idea and used on this one. I try to make it look like from a angle above. The crane is flying by the water and in the hand a person hold one of them.

Tess: To make this op-art piece, I used isometric graph paper to draw boxes in random directions, overlapping and going underneath each other. I did this twice to make two different patterns, then I traced the two patterns to create three identical copies of each. I decided to use complementary colors so each design would be unique, but still match with the other patterns.

Vanessa: For this project I did a tessellation and that means I made a shape out of paper and made a puzzle out of it and to color it I used water color.

Maria: In order to create this origami sculpture I needed knowledge of math concepts in order to be successful. Paper folding, or origami relates to shapes and angles. While creating the three dimensional angular boxes, every angle of each fold had to be exact. If not, each box would not be congruent, and would not represent the 3D shape I was trying to make. Recognition of shapes and designs that would make this project appealing were also useful. Making this project required me to use art ideas as well, such as printmaking, and other collage techniques.

We have a Venue!

I am very excited to announce that we have secured a venue to display our work for ArtPrize10! Our work will be on display on the second floor of The Downtown Market.

It is an awesome place I go to regularly and I know our students will be eager to head to the market and enjoy viewing the work as they also partake on the ice cream, popcorn, barbecue, and my personal favorite of chicken and waffles while there.

We are all still working on our pieces as we look ahead to installing the works in September. This is going to be a great event to kick off the school year in the Fall and get students excited about art. It is also awesome to be in the running for the Youth Collaboration Award for $2500!

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Week Fifteen and Sixteen

5/19/2018

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These past two weeks have been a blur as we have finished up multiple projects, gone on a field trip, made more progress on our ArtPrize piece, and planning our big Art show. I can only assume the rest of the year is going to fly by like this as we get closer and closer to exams and the BIG celebration in New York City for Scholastic!

Objects Complete

Last week, students finished up their objects projects and posted the results on Artsonia. It was fun to see how they interpreted the assignment and even better was that many of them tried new media in new ways because they could not use materials they had used before.

For the past four years at least one of our National Scholastic Medalists' works have been a result of this prompt. I think the main reason for this is that when you are forced to go outside of your comfort zone with new media, you are more willing to try creative risks you might have otherwise avoided.

Here are some examples of the creative risks students came up with for this assignment:

Avery: For this project I created a bracelet made of many different materials. By using wire, magazine clippings, and clay I was able to compose a decorative wrist piece. This bracelet connects to the project theme because jewelry is often used as family heirlooms and can be very sentimental. I also based my artwork after Mitchell Feinburg's work because he uses ordinary objects and hides a deeper meaning within them. This bracelet has many hidden meanings such as, diversity, awareness, and recycling. By creating this artwork I hoped to show that even small objects can make a difference or impact people's lives.

Chelsea: For the projects “Objects” I chose to do a tray of sushi because it is one of my favorite foods. The sushi rolls are made out of felt and wool to add texture to make them look real. The tray is made out of clay and it has flower designs to make it look more realistic. My artwork relates to Mitchell Feinberg because I used a 3D material and made a piece of food. Mitchell also had art focused on food. I liked doing this art project because I got to work with new materials.

Gabby: For this project I chose to choose an object that means something to me that was given to me from my grandma. In order to execute this I chose to block print to put an emphasis on the necklace and my grandma passing it down to me. This piece relates to both Jim Dine's robe piece because of all the different lines making up the art and also Mitchell Feinberg's piece where he imprinted bags and other objects into flower just like with what you do when block printing.

Aron: I took some paper and put it in a plastic mask face thing. Then I drowned it in glue, and after a few days of waiting I got a mask. After that I took a piece of paper, painted it red, cut it into shapes, took a reflective sheet, cut some shapes, and glued it together with the red paper. After that I glued it all together, after hole punching spaces to put yarn, so that the mask would be wearable. I believe this artwork is sort of like Audrey Flack because she uses a lot of color in her work, and I believe that this mask uses color.

Olivia: For this artwork I created my own scratch art paper and scratched out my glasses onto it. To do this I used oil pastel and drew my image out with that. Then I painted black tempera paint over this and because water and oil resist I was able to scratch off the the paint. Now you can see the image of my glasses with scratched designs. This artwork relates to the theme of objects because it shows an object but in a fun way. My piece relates to the works of Wayne Thiebaud who draws lots of objects but in simple ways that interest you.

Madeline: I like to make things that is out of the box, not just a typical painting, even though those can still be powerful. Gumball machines are in lots of stores and it seems like they are never empty, yet many people get them. I chose this material because it helps convey the message that every quarter you leave behind for the gumball, helps the store that it is in. Like Mitchell Feinberg my art shows things that get left behind but, in his picture of cigarettes that shoes how they effect the earth. In my artwork the quarters help the earth, so in a way they have the same idea of things getting left behind.

Caden:I used block printing for the first time. This technique was good for making the object pop out at the viewer. I carved out a block and applied paint to it. Then I put the painted block to a piece of paper. I used the brayer to apply an equal amount of force to get all the paint from the block, onto the paper I think my art relates to Audrey Flacks art because I used a lot of color in my art piece. Audrey used lots of color in all of her art pieces too. Each color used in this piece of art makes the object visible in a different way.

Issues

After students turned in their objects projects, we focused on the theme of Issues. Students looked at Wordless News by Maria Fabrizio as inspiration before doing some research and creating works that went into a topic or issue they thought was important to highlight with art. This was a very quick project, so students were limited to 2D media. We also got to use the iPad cart with new apps we received thanks to a newly funded DonorsChoose.org project! This has been a great resource in our classroom so far and I am so excited to utilize it even more next year!

Here are some of the results:

Jeffery: This work is about being stressed out about school and everything you have to do.

Allison: The inspiration for this piece was the world issue fracking. Fracking is the act of forcing a high concentration of gasses and chemicals into the earth to make it crack open to get to natural gasses and oils. The act of fracking causes an immense amount of damage in habitats and the earth in general. It was also inspired by my English class where I read a book talking about the issue. This images was aquired for PBS LearningMedia teachers and students from Getty Images. Provided by: Science Source.

Hannah: I decided to do my issue on anxiety, its something I have dealt with for such a long time now.Many other people deal with anxiety as well,I decided to do photography because it can capture the real meaning and the time.I decided to do my pictures a bit blurry and crazy,because people with anxiety knows how it feels durning an attack.I wanted people to see what it was like.Alot of people are scared to speak up about there anxiety or just don't recognize they have anxiety, but I have a voice and I want people to know there not alone.

Alex: I chose homelessness as the issue for this project. Homelessness is a problem across the U.S. and people walk by it as if these people don't matter. However, they may have a mental issue or never got the chance to learn education or have enough money to even start for a job. This piece of work can be related to the hardships we learn about in history class and how that has made things increasingly more difficult for people. I was able to really understand this topic by looking at a video on PBS learning media which had a video from 2017 about a student athlete who didn't have a home.

STEAM projects

The past two weeks have been busy in the Art classroom. In STEAM, we go through five units (one for each letter of STEAM) that have two parts: a "Have to" and "Can do." "Have to" projects are projects I direct students through that connect with the letter of focus for the unit and "Can do" projects are student developed. Students completed their "Can do" projects earlier this week and uploaded them to Artsonia.

t was fun to see students work through a variety of solutions. To help them brainstorm, I directed them to the "Hands-on Projects" section of our online subscription to Scholastic Art Magazine. This helped many students gather ideas and take bits and pieces to make their own project.

It was so much fun to see students develop their own ideas and implement techniques from their "Have to" videos that they shared the week before. It was even more fun to be able to make additional artist connections to students' works and help them develop the creative courage to take bigger risks in their own art.

Sophia: The artist that inspired me to do this artwork was Robert Rauschenberg. He does colorful printmaking and layers the things he prints on top of each other. For my artwork I did 2 different block prints of Paige in black. Then I took two different pieces of paper and put colorful mono prints on it, and did a collage background. Lastly, I printed the faces onto the collage background and put frames around them.

Evie: For my project of choice, I decided to try felting again. I tried to do something similar to this last year, but I ended up with far less details, the work being smaller, and just lower quality art. Revisiting this, I had more materials and more time to work on this, which helped me make it far better from last time. The art work also has more personal meaning behind it which made me more passionate to complete it, something that makes my work far better than when I'm just doing it for a grade. I got to use buttons (which I forgot last time) and I made two (which I wanted to do last time) instead of one. While some parts were more rushed and look not as good, I feel like I did a lot better and I'd love to keep working on my felting skills.

Jenna: For this project i did mono printing and cut the prints in to shapes and glued them down.The spots that didn't have a shape i used a stencil and a pencil to fill it in.

Khiem: One of the thing that I learn through out this steam years is a mood board. So I organize my past art with some changes in them into a mood board because I think it would be a good way to end the marking period, is to include most of my art in to one with some extra idea or idea that I have before I created my final art. So to round it all up I use the mood board design to organize my art or sketch that I have over the year to remember what I accomplish.

Marie: In this piece of work I was inspired by artist Tom Friedman in Scholastic Art Magazine. Friedman developed a piece of artwork made from corners of cereal boxes. In his work, he put all of the geometrical triangles together to create a cereal box sculpture. With my own work I used the idea of 3 dimensional triangles formed together in order to create larger piece of work. But instead I used paper folding and origami techniques, as well as mono printing and mixed media ideas.

Ashtyn: For this project I made a wire hand, because in STEAM we are on the art can do and Mrs. Campbell said that we can do what ever we want as long as it is art related. I made a wire hand because I have never used wire before and thought it would be interesting to try out, and it was.

Students also worked on their Math "Have to" projects this week with a look at radial symmetry. We did this in a variety of ways: first we worked on making buttons, then we made chalk art outside, and finally worked on digital works. This lesson was adapted from Liquitex and I will also be sharing this on Instagram in hopes of winning a $1500 contest I found out about at NAEA in Seattle. Wish us luck!

Trever

Jenna

Sophia

Kenzie

Chloe

Meijer Gardens Field Trip

For the past ten years, I have been able to bring students to the Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture park. It is one of my favorite parts of Spring and we could not have had better weather for our trip!

Students were led on a tour of the Japanese Gardens (which is a new addition to the park) by docents and learned a lot of information about how they created this part of the park. They were also in the process of installing a new exhibit with cranes that lowered sculptures into place, which was exciting to see in action.

Getting Ready for Arts a la Mode

This week is going to be another action-packed one! We are so excited about Tuesday and hope to have a great turn out for the events planned and look forward to sharing the results in our next post!

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Week Fourteen

5/6/2018

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Show and Tell

This week in STEAM class, students moved on to their Art "Have to" project where they were asked to team up and work on videos that explained how to use a variety of materials. We were even able to use our newest DonorsChoose.org funded project with pop-up green screens for this assignment. My hope for this project was to create a pool of videos I can post for other students to use in our classroom (which will be so great for kids who need reminders, are absent, or joining our class mid-way through the term).

In addition to demonstrating use of material, they also needed to show where to find them, care, and an artist who uses it in their own work.

Here are a few of them:

Working With New Materials

Students worked on their project that centered on the theme of Objects, Artifacts, and Things You Leave Behind. One of the challenges of this assignment was that students were required to use media they had yet to implement in a project so far this semester. By requiring them to go beyond their comfort zone, students turned to a variety of alternative methods which is resulting in so many exciting outcomes.

For the past four years, a National Scholastic Medal has yielded from this prompt. My guess is that because I am requesting/requiring students to try something new in their art making, they are taking bigger risks and being a little more bold with their creative expression. I also think they are more than half way through the curriculum in the class at this point, so they are more open to experimenting with ideas and have seen so many examples of other artists making bold choices with big rewards to show for it.

Regardless of the reason, I am excited to see students trying new ideas and get excited about the work they are doing in class. Even better to see is the resilient nature in their approach to the process and pushing through blocks by finding alternative routes or improvising along the way. The finished works will be posted on Artsonia by the start of next week.

One interesting outcome in one of my 7th grade classes was the collaboration you see below. One student created the pencil and sharpener and two more wanted to join in on the oversized fun by making the notebook and eraser. Seeing students view other students as artists and partners in the creative process is what I am always striving for in my classroom, so this was a real delight to see. Anytime you get kids excited about what others are doing and then want to make more art because of it, is a win.

Connecting to Careers

One of my favorite things when I attend a conference like the National Art Education Association gathering is connecting with professionals in my field and those who have benefited from strong backgrounds in Art Education. It is awesome to connect with colleges and universities that offer teachers great resources to share with students who are thinking they would like a creative career in the Arts.

I was able to add to my collection of informative posters this year by hanging up two I have collected from multiple conferences by Ringling College. As soon as I put them up, students we a buzz with the companies where graduates of SO many varieties of Arts-focused areas worked. They were especially interested in Epic Games (which is the maker of the very popular "Fornite"). I am excited to see my students excited and thinking about how they can turn something they find enjoyment in doing into a career they can make a living doing.

Students love these @RinglingCollege posters I got from @NAEA #artsed #dowhatyoulove #startswithart #k12ArtChat pic.twitter.com/L7SNiFLvig
— Janine Campbell (@campbellartsoup) May 4, 2018

ArtPrize Progress

We are continuing to work on our ArtPrize piece. This week was all about sealing the mirrored paper and getting more portraits created on the bottle caps. Next week, we hope to have all of the sealing complete for our panels and begin to focus on placement of the caps. The goal is to have this ready for our May 22nd Arts a la Mode Empty Bowls/Fine Arts Night at BCWMS. We also hope to have a venue secured so our work can compete for the Youth Collaboration Award! If you are interested in learning more about that, you can visit our ArtPrize page.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

This week is National Teacher Appreciation Week! Although I appreciate the week of appreciation that is to come, I would feel even more appreciated if we have a good turn out for our students and community at our annual Arts a la Mode Empty Bowls/Fine Arts Night on May 22nd.

If you are are student who would like to volunteer, visit this form. If you are a parent interested in volunteering, visit thisform. We are getting really close to this year's event and I am pretty excited about it and hope to see a great turn out for the evening filled with celebrating the Arts.

Out of the kiln for Empty Bowls! pic.twitter.com/hd5YRmEqbu
— Janine Campbell (@campbellartsoup) May 1, 2018

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Week Thirteen

4/27/2018

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Last STEAM Collaboration

Students presented their last STEAM collaboration for the year this week. For this challenge, students were asked to design and create structures that represented spaces we use like schools, businesses, homes, and other architectural works.

It was fun to see students from both classes work together to create a variety of buildings using blueprints, digital renderings, and physical models. The pieces are currently on display in our Library until the end of the year.

DE is DONE

Another semester of DE is in the books. It has been almost 8 years since the last time I taught 3D and I am so thankful I was able to come back to it with this group. These kids were amazing to work with, full of so many ideas, and willing to push themselves to try new ideas and techniques.

I was really excited to see their final exam projects complete and how they took the opportunity of designing their own prompt with their choice of media. It gave students to try some things they were interested in doing or revisiting ideas left undone from the past. Here are a few of the results:

For our final farewell of the group, we met at the Meijer Gardens to complete a scavenger hunt and sketchbook activity. A special thanks to The Byron Center Fine Arts Boosters for sponsoring our trip!

Building More Skills

Students also spend this week building skills by learning about printmaking and observational drawing. Our newest themed project asks students to examine the objects we interact with on a daily basis and make art that focuses on that relationship. In addition to that, students are also being challenged to use a different media to work with for this piece.

Next week we will spend time refining ideas and finalizing media for use to work towards project goals. Here are some works in progress so far:

Arts a la Mode Prep

We are getting excited for our annual Fine Arts Night on May 22nd and starting to put the finishing touches on our preparations for the event that includes Empty Bowls, Performances, Art Displays, and STEAM activities (two of which were funded with DonorsChoose.org requests earlier this year).

We are also in process of gathering volunteers for the night, asking students and parents to help out. If you are a student or parent at BCPS and would like to help, please contact me for more information.

Finishing touches on bowl for May 22nd Arts a la Mode event at BCWMS. pic.twitter.com/ztubEqKIdC
— Janine Campbell (@campbellartsoup) April 26, 2018

ArtPrize10 Update

We are continuing work on our part of the ArtPrize piece this year. I am so excited to see it coming together, but know we still have A LOT of work to do before it is complete. This week was spent cutting a lot of reflective paper and then figuring out how to place it on the work.

Hopefully next week we will be able to get our profile up and running and start to secure a venue. If you would like to connect, please visit our ArtPrize page.

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First Week Review

9/8/2016

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Since starting this blog 5 years ago, I have been looking for new and different ways to share all of the things that go on in our Art room. I used to post daily and more recently have moved to less and less posting.

For this school year, I am hoping to post weekly about what we are working on and how we progress through learning, making, and exploring along the way.

Start with Art

For the past five or so years, I have opened up the first day with clay. We use this opportunity to make our bowls for our annual Empty Bowls event. I am so thankful to work in a community that supports the Arts and that we can in turn support the community through our Art in action. Our Arts a la Mode Night will happen on May 23rd this year and I know it will be even better than last!

Making Marks

In addition to getting students immersed in making art with clay on the first day, I leverage this act of making on day two as I introduced "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds. I have been doing this one for a few years, too, in different forms. I am really in love with students making their own mark after being inspired by the story and then bringing it all together to make something larger than their single part. I hope that can see the symbolism in that as we tackle many challenges together throughout the semester and will need each other to get through many of them.

Here are a few of the finished ones and the classes put together to make larger "dots."

Corinne W.: I consider the story The Dot inspirational because Vashti makes beautiful pieces of art, yet so simple, she feels like an artist. I consider myself not the best drawer but in this piece, I let my pencil just take me away and it ended up better than I expected. I ended up finding things I hadn't noticed before while drawing this, like how the shape to the left looked like a dinosaur, and how in the middle shape looked like a distortment of a palm tree, so I colored it in that way. This relates to the story because it was simple to draw and still turned out good ;)

Aiden: The Dot story tells us that no matter how bad you think you are at art, there are a million different ways to make your art work unique. It connects with my art because I didn't know what to make so i just started making different lines and circles and it turn out pretty good.

Abby B.: A story, known as, “The Dot”, has a theme, that can be interpreted that anyone can be an artist. The story starts as a young girl has trouble on thinking about what she should make for her art class. Her teacher tells her to make a dot, which she does, still frustrated with herself. But when the teacher puts it in a frame the next day, the girl keeps working on more dots, surprising herself with her own creativity. I found this book to be funny and inspiring, and a good message to think about when you work on art. This story helps connect with the current piece I’m working on, known as, the dot. I believe that this project was given to us to show that we can be artist too, know matter what our skill levels are.

Looking Ahead

There are a lot of things we can feel good about that got accomplished this week. And with that in mind, I know there will be so many things to look forward to overcoming this year. This week we got to see the 3D printer in action, relive the accomplishments of the past as a challenge to the future, and get excited about our first STEAM collaborative starting on Monday!

I had an awesome summer of unwinding and unplugging because I know this year will be a big one. We have a lot to live up to from the past and instead of being daunted by it or feeling overwhelmed, it is a challenge to push harder and reach higher! I hope everyone else who started their school year feels that same determination in their gut and leverages it to their best year yet!

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Arts a la Mode

5/30/2016

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On May 24th, we had our annual Empty Bowls Event and Fine Arts Night. It was the first year we had combined the two on one night and it was a great time celebrating the work of our Fine Arts students as we also helped raise food and funds for our local food bank.

With a donation of food or funds, community members came to WMS and enjoyed Music and Art from our students and ice cream provided by Hudsonville Ice Cream thanks to our Byron Center Fine Arts Boosters.

We raised over $600 in food and funds to be donated to Buist Community Assistance Center to help families in our community!

It was a great night filled with Art and Music and I am so thankful to Steve Harryman who donated his time and talents to create the video of the event below:

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Weeks Seventeen and Eighteen

Arts a la Mode

Thank you TangerKIDS Program!

When Old Becomes New

Focusing on Math in STEAM

We have a Venue!

Week Fifteen and Sixteen

Objects Complete

Issues

STEAM projects

Meijer Gardens Field Trip

Getting Ready for Arts a la Mode

Week Fourteen

Show and Tell

Working With New Materials

Connecting to Careers

ArtPrize Progress

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Week Thirteen

Last STEAM Collaboration

DE is DONE

Building More Skills

Arts a la Mode Prep

ArtPrize10 Update

First Week Review

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