Art I - Visiting Artist, Maritza Lugo

We were lucky enough to have visiting artist and illustrator, Maritza Lugo, stop into the classroom and talk a little about having a career in the art world.

She offered us insight into how to become better at art (keep practicing!) and let us know that it takes hard work and dedication, but it is definitely possible to have a job in the arts.

ArtI - Large Scale Self Portraits

Adaptive Art - Still Life Collages

Just in time for Mother's Day, the Adaptive Art class created  still life collages of spring flowers.

Every element of the collage represented something important in their lives.

Adaptive Art Learns About Aboriginal Art

Students in Adaptive Art learned about Aboriginal Art from the continent of Australia.

We took their artwork as inspiration for our own stippled, warm & cool color paintings.

 

Playing Catch Up {Part III}

6th graders completed some really fantastic large scale masks.
{The pictures don't really do them justice, as they are about 2x3'}

And 7th graders made some beautiful torn paper collage portraits of their favorite celebrities or animals.
{It took a lot of time, but the results were awesome!}

 

 

 

Art Classroom Update

Here are some photos from the art classroom. We created Love Bugs out of yarn & mat board. Check out the final product!

Video Games! Art! Finally!

Last month the Museum of Modern Art announced they would be including a permanent collection of video games into their museum in March. 

PacMan, Tetris, The Sims, are just a few of the titles that will join famous Picassos, Pollocks and Warhols on the walls of MoMA.

This video by PBS Idea Channel discusses their acquisition and talks about his picks for the 5 most artful video games.

 That begs the question, are video games art? If not, why not? If so, why so? If you had to list what you think are the Top 5 Most Artful Video Games, what would you include on that list?