Month: March 2012

Women’s History Month: Georgia O’Keeffe

March is Women’s History Month, and to celebrate, CCA will recognize some of our favorite female artists.  Today’s artist is someone whom we will be studying later in the semester: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE!   O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1877 and decided to become an artist when she was just 12 years old!  In 1916, …

3-5’s! Finished Rauschenberg Combines

This week, our artists focused on mixing colors of paint that matched their mood.  Each bed also included details that reflected a part of each individual – Audrey included a tail of purple fabric to her artwork that resembles an element of her own bed at home, and Ella used fabric textures and created designs …

8-10’s! Finished Rauschenberg Combines

Our finished “beds” are full of colors and patterns inspired by a variety of found objects!  During our second week of Rauschenberg, each artist added objects, fabric, and paint to their combine, and invented a title to match their design.   See the full gallery on Posterous Soley “The Playground” See the full gallery on …

Well wishes to Claire for her recovery!