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Week Twelve

4/23/2018

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Finishing Up with DE

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Students in my KCAD 3D DE class are working on their final exam projects as we get closer to the end of the course. With only a week left, students are at different points of progress when it comes to their final works. It has been an awesome time seeing students select what materials they want to work with for their final projects and how they can adapt the skills and ideas we discussed throughout the term into something that is uniquely their own making. 

I have been so impressed with the students from this term and cannot wait to see what they land on for their final works. I am also excited to see many of them return as a part of our program and even more excited and proud for those who will graduate and begin their next learning journey at the college level! 
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Architecture Almost Complete

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Students continued their STEAM projects this week that worked at designing an building models based on architecture. Students will finish up and present these works on Monday/Tuesday of next week. I have appreciated seeing students work together in groups for this effort and discover skills and talents using a variety of tools. 

These pieces will go on display in the Library of our school for the remainder of the school year and we look forward to keeping some as examples and decoration for our classrooms. 
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Working on ArtPrize10

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Working on our @ByronCenterPS #ArtPrize10 Youth Collaboration piece for @ArtPrize collaboration today pic.twitter.com/YVc7kmdfDC

— Janine Campbell (@campbellartsoup) April 17, 2018
Students were busy at work last week getting the background for our panels painted for ArtPrize10. We are so excited about this installation that celebrates diversity and how we can come together as a community to work on this statement. Now that we have our backgrounds decorated, we need to finish up the portraits on the bottle caps and apply those to the panels along with reflective paper. 

It is going to be amazing to see the other schools' work, too. Especially when we put them all together. I am also looking forward to sharing our completed panels at our Arts a la Mode/Empty Bowls/Fine Arts Night celebration on May 22nd! 
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LOVE the additions students made to our #artprize10 Youth Collaboration entry as a part of the @ByronCenterPS @ArtPrize work. Hoping we will find a venue this year to showcase our work! More to do tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/3NaBoCOBmh

— Janine Campbell (@campbellartsoup) April 18, 2018
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Week Eleven

4/13/2018

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Acting Like Designers

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For our final STEAM collaborative of the year, students are acting like an architecture firm and creating spaces using a variety of tools. To begin, students get into groups of four and assign roles: Project Managers are responsible for collecting images of the work, writing a purpose statement for the work, and creating a presentation of all of those items; Blueprint Designers are responsible for sketching out the way the building will look and the layout of the structure; SketchUp Artists are responsible for creating a digital rendering of the structure; and Maquette Builders are responsible for creating a physical model of the piece.
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In STEAM class, we are working on thinking like Design Engineers and creating concept sketches of products. To get them thinking about product design, we watched the video below:
Afterwards, students started to brainstorm products that currently exist as well as those that do not that would help resolve frustrations they have. It was fun to see students come up with ideas and then getting feedback from others through a roundtable sharing process. 

Before working on their final designs, I also took students through the act of creating a "Mood Board" to help better define their product. They combined images and words while thinking about their product and consumer to give an overall feel for their design as well as hone in on their point of view as the designer. I had never done this before with students. It is such a quick and easy activity to do and it helps secure their idea before finalizing their sketch. 

Here are some of the results:
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I am also super excited that the latest issue of Scholastic Art Magazine fits right into this project. I made sure to spend time yesterday going over their interview with Nike Chief Design Officer, John Hoke with my STEAM students. 

Sometimes I think the people at Scholastic are reading my mind. This issue could not have come at a better time! 
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Alter Egos

We are nearing to a close for our Dual Enrollment class and students worked on finishing up their alter egos before starting their final exam projects. It has been fun to see students interpret a variety of media and concepts throughout the term. I am excited to see that students took a lot of liberty with their alter egos. Some used clay, others used wall paper and wire, and some used hot glue. With only a couple of weeks left before we finish final exam projects and say goodbye, here are a few of the solutions from this last project. 
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The Real Week Nine

3/23/2017

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STEAM Collaboration #3: Artist Rooms

STEM and Art students joined forces once again this year for a new challenge: take an artist from Scholastic Art Magazine and create a room that demonstrates his/her style. I wish I could take full credit for this idea, but as with most things, I came across @QEHSArtDept posts on Twitter showing off bedrooms created by students that looked like artists' rooms and some lovely cultural rooms at the 2015 National Art Education Association conference in New Orleans that sparked this collaborative unit. 

​In order to get students in the mindset, we showed them this video from the artist duo Nix and Gerber. It was a great introduction to how artists plan, collaborate, and repurpose materials and the fact that they create replicas (which is what we were asking of students) was perfect! Once students got into groups of three, they selected rooms using a Google sign up (so there were not more than one repeat of room), students began searching through Scholastic Art Magazines, finding an artist to use to design their rooms. 

After signing up for an artist (there could not be duplicates), students then broke their groups into three roles: The Project Manager, The Blueprint designer, and The Sketch Up Artist. All three students were in charge of creating a model of their design based on the blueprint and sketch up. 

By the end of the week, students have a pretty good start on their models, using their plans to help guide them. They will be bringing all of this together next week and present their finished works. In addition, these works will go on display in our library and also be featured in our Arts a la mode/Fine Arts night on May 23rd. 

It has been really fun see students struggle towards solutions and grow in the process. There have been interesting design choices and thoughtful narratives to support their decisions as artists and a lot of problem solving as they try to engineer the final product. We have also been putting the 3D printer to work this week as students used Tinkercad to make furniture, accessories, and other objects to go into their models. 

​Here are some process images from the week: 

Student Show

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Being able to join my colleagues in the BCPS Visual Arts team to do so brings me a lot of joy and pride. At least once each school year our students are able to display their works at the Van Singel Fine Arts Center and represent the excellence of Visual Arts in each of our six buildings and across each grade level. Selecting which works to display from WMS 7th and 8th graders were tough, but that is a good kind of problem to have. 

For this year's show, I tried to select student work that reflected a variety of media, demonstrated skill or inventiveness of media, and work whose artist statements were demonstrative of the learning and thought process that took place of the artist who created it. 

Because I have adapted a model of teaching that asks students to choose the ways in which they interpret themes (via the media, subject, etc.), the variety in the works on display are both exciting and interesting to view. I look forward to celebrating these works and the rest of our student artists at the opening reception on Monday, March 27th at 5:30 p.m.
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​DOF

Dual Enrollment students finished up another assignment last week that focused on Depth of Field. This term is used to describe what is in focus in an image. Students were encouraged to capture a wide range of subjects and use a shallow, mid, and wide DOF in their images.

​Here are some examples of their work: 
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There is only one more week until Spring Break. As you can see by my repeat of week nine (since it looks like I missed a week six or seven this go around), I am in need of it. I wish all teachers and students the best as they finish out this week and marking period STRONG! 
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 A STEAM Collaboration

9/14/2015

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Week two in the BCWMS Art room actually started in the STEM room today. Our classrooms are teaming up for a two week video project where students will use the Design Thinking Process to plan, execute, and share their finished products. After introducing students to the DICE model (Discover, Ideate, Create, Evaluate), they broke into smaller groups and started planning out their collaborative public service announcements that highlight making good choices. 
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Tomorrow, students will be writing scripts, drawing out storyboards, and planning their production schedules. I am excited to see what these kids do, especially since we are mixing grade levels in the process. 

I also had the chance to get the larger collaborative dots on display in the smART space outside of my classroom. I am excited for the outcome and look forward to celebrating International Dot Day tomorrow! 
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