Month: April 2011

Mexican Clay Coil Bowl

Lesson of the Week (3-5’s): Mexican Clay Coil Bowl By pulling, pressing, and rolling, the students will make a Mexican inspired bowl from coils! Materials used: clay, slip, clay tools

“The (Parent/Child) class this year has been amazing!

Thank you, thank you- Warmly, Galia”

Oscar Wilde quote:

“Art is individualism. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower

LESSON OF THE WEEK: Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower 3-5’s This week the students will learn about the most important holiday of the year – Mother’s Day :0). We will honor the wonderful women in our lives by making a Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower. This project will be fun and creative, yet it will also …

6 and Up! Part 2 of Louise Nevelson Contained Arrangements

Malevich and the American Legacy

Great comprehensive show through April 30th! Go see it! After a fabulous tour with Riva Blumenfeld last Wednesday, I highly suggest a visit before this show ends next Saturday… Based on this Russian painter’s early use of simplified shape and pure colors, see how artists such as Stella, Twombly, Newman, Kelly, Judd, LeWitt, Serra, Calder …

Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower

LESSON OF THE WEEK: Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower 3-5’s This week the students will learn about the most important holiday of the year – Mother’s Day :0). We will honor the wonderful women in our lives by making a Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower. This project will be fun and creative, yet it will also …

6 and Up! Louise Nevelson Contained Arrangements

We’ll explore sculptor Louise Nevelson’s techniques of painting and arranging found objects in a small frame to create a pleasing composition to exemplify balance, variation and scale!

WOODAABE POUCHES

LESSON OF THE WEEK (3-5’s) WOODAABE POUCHES The people of the African tribe, Woodaabe, are known to idealize and celebrate beauty; some may even call them narcissists. The tribesmen wear Woodaabe pouches around their necks decorated with found objects such as beads, buttons, and copper along with a mirror. Students will create their own Woodaabe Pouches using …

What a great tour! Pic’s from this Saturday’s Guggenheim tour…

Line, shape and form were the themes while noticing artists and architecture.