Native American Art 2016

This week students learned all about Native American Indian art through creating their own projects based on the Native styles. They designed everything from bowls, medicine man pouches, and petroglyph writings to ceremonial vests, crayon-resist symbols, and jute basket-weavings.

Conservation 2016

This week, students in grades 1-5 are working on "Backyard Adventures," this year's theme for the annual Conservation Poster contest. 

Multiple Perspectives

This week students participated in a new activity I learned about this summer at the Murray State University Discovery Education workshop. It is called "Multiple Perspectives."

Students are given directions based upon the "Multiple Perspectives" criteria.

 Each table team of students are given a picture of some kind. (In this case, it was a photograph of a landscape, an outdoor scene.)

Students then choose a person or object from the picture and write a narrative based on that 'character.' 

When they are finished writing, students share their stories with their teammates. 

October 2016 Masterpiece of the Month Winners Are.......

First Grader Krista created an "Owl Focal Point Drawing."

Sixth Grader Lukin created a focal point drawing using everyday objects.

Denis, a fourth grader, designed his self-portrait as the focal point of his artwork.

Gourd Festival Children's Booth 2016

Sofia creating a gourd ship. 

Kaci beginning her gourd project.

Hannah creating a gourd ship with a flag.

Zachary creating an abstract gourd design.

Addi designing a gourd creation. 

Avery painting her gourd design.

Riley choosing paint for his gourd project.

Kaci giving the finishing touches to her gourd cat.

Sam and GCHS art teacher, Laura Cope, putting together an American flag gourd project. 

Austin creating a gourd necklace.

Patterns in Art

This week students are studying patterns in art. Students created Warhol-style repeating patterns, Frida Kahlo self-portraits, pointillism self-portraits, and Magritte-style surrealistic art.

Texture for Artworks

This week students are creating texture artworks. They are designing everything from collages, to Panda lines, and texturized floral still life watercolor paintings.