Category: Art in the Community

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Get out and do some #PleinAir #Drawing – #Communication with Janie and Australia!

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.”

― Courtney Hickman

Why can’t the snapshot of my video be a little less GOOFY looking?

Art Foundations: Bullying and the Critical Thinking it takes to discuss the social topic. WORKSHEET and Romare Bearden Foundation

Romare Bearden and Collage – what can you do to create an environment? http://www.alexrosenbergfineart.com/images/beardentrain.jp

GOALS

  1. 1.3 communicate your thoughts on social topics clearly

Talk to one another about the topics of Bullying and Social Commentary. What are 3 things about each that you have learned and think would be helpful to share tomorrow.

Drawing: OUTSIDE – Sketchbook – DRAW from OBSERVATION

American Regionalist –  – WEBPAGE – BRIEF explanation. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1086988/thumbs/o-CALIFORNIA-SCENE-PAINTING-570.jpg?

Emil Kosa – California Regionalist 1940.

GOALS

  1. 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition, meaning of artwork, and inspiration of American Regionalists.

What did Thomas Hart Benton and Other Regionalists teach you about society, community, and Composition?

AP Studio Art: Collaborate!

Collaboration – Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat – GREAT WORKS! Website! http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture_test/kelly_warholbasquiat_post.jpg

GOALS

  1. 2.3 create COLLABORATIVE artwork that solve visual challenge about Technology and Art (?)

After having THOUGHT about the idea of collaboration, what do you hope to CONTRIBUTE and TAKE AWAY from this process?

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#Community is not just a funny TV show! It’s an #Art #Project

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.”

― Courtney Hickman

Art Foundations: Bullying and the Critical Thinking it takes to discuss the social topic. WORKSHEET and Romare Bearden Foundation

Romare Bearden – Social Comentary – What MIGHT he have been making art about? What is happening in this collage? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/0a866-romarebeardenuptownlookingdowntown-1965.jpg

GOALS:

  1. Create multiple solutions to solve the visual problems of collage about BULLYING! How are you going to gather images, textures, and ideas to assemble a collage to illustrate your ideas about Bullying?

As you think about the social topic of Bullying, why is it important to you that it become s the final work that you spend the time this semester working on? With all of the different techniques, projects, elements and principles that we have learned, how are you going to pull it all together to this final excellent work of art?

Drawing: American Regionalisms – What are they saying about their COMMUNITY? 

PROJECT INFORMATION

Andrew Wyeth
Grant Wood
Thomas Hart Benton

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork . What images would you like to GATHER and USE to create your final image? Photographs? Drawings? Refernces of your Artist’s work?

What was REGIONALISM ABOUT? Give a 3 point history… What artists are you really looking at and working to follow? Why? How would you explain the importance of their work and what you are interested in regarding them.

AP Studio Art: Collaboration. Is it getting over the HUMP on HUMP Day?

Teamwork. JPG

GOALS:

  1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value.

What was the big accomplishment today? How are you being focused on the task now?

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#Research and Art – Making art with a message

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.”

― Courtney Hickman

Art Foundations: Collage and Research – Bullying – Deeper Thinking

What does Bullying mean to you? http://balancedlifeskills.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bully-wordie1-1024×740.jpg

WORKSHEET HERE

WEBPAGE HERE

GOALS:

  1. Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information about the ideas and definitions, and examples of Bullying
  2. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve visual challenges about bullying.

How are you using the idea of BULLYING In your artwork? What direction are you going with it? Share these ideas on paper and with your neighbor

Drawing: Working on American Regionalism – Who and Why are you interested? PROJECT INFORMATION

What do you see when you see your community? What do you ADD to your’s? What does it add to you? http://www.artcyclopedia.com/images/Curry.jpg

GOALS:

  1. Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information about COMMUNITY and the artists. – What did the artists say about their community as they created their works? What can you do?

What did Thomas Hart Benton and Other Regionalists teach you about society, community, and Composition? How did they reflect their communities?

AP Studio Art: What is COLLABORATION and why are you struggling?

What is COLLABORATION and why are you struggling with it?
What is COLLABORATION and why are you struggling with it?

GOALS:

  1. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges.

  2. WRITE THIS OUT (those of you who are REFUSING to participate in the REFLECTIVE part of this class) What are you struggling with as the ideas of the collaboration are you having? Why? WRITE IT OUT!

After having THOUGHT about the idea of collaboration, what do you hope to CONTRIBUTE and TAKE AWAY from this process?

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#Communities and #Art, #Collaboration and #Technology… what does it all mean?

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.”

― Courtney Hickman

http://pushydreamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/if-you-never-chase-your-dreams-youll-never-catch-them-245218-500-331.jpg

Art Foundations: What is Social Commentary? This is PART of the RESEARCH you can do today!

How can you VISUALIZE the feeling of Bullying and being a bully? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2013-01-15_07-59-44_878.jpg

Goals:

  1. Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information about the ideas and definitions, and examples of Bullying.

Research these two topics and collect information to work from – Bullying and Social Commentary.

Talk to one another about the topics of Bullying and Social Commentary. What are 3 things about each that you have learned and think would be helpful to share tomorrow.

Drawing: How do we build communities?

Perspective? http://www.buzzle.com/images/diagrams/2-point-perspective.jpg
Communities in the American Regionalist Eyes… RESEARCH!

Goals:

  1. G: Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information about COMMUNITY and Thomas Hart Benton and other American Regionalists.

What did Thomas Hart Benton and Other Regionalists teach you about society, community, and Composition?

AP Studio Art: What is REAL collaboration?

How are YOU toughing the ideas of CREATION? http://www.artmarketingmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/marketingculturale02.jpg

Goals:

  1. 2.4 compare different points of view regarding composition and meaning in artwork.

How are your ideas being worked into the LARGE image? What can you do to encourage your ideas to be represented and present in the final composition? Discuss and WRITE IT DOWN!

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The Art Student (and the lessons you can learn)

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” ― Robert Henri

What a great day at the Milwaukee Art Museum. It has been FAR too long. Oh to get back into the looking at the visual arts (and a lot of it at that). I was very happy to have changed my approach and began with the European Art from the Baroque era and worked my way forward. Of course, I ended in the Bradley Collection with a look at the Alex Katz painting of “Sunny” but… it wouldn’t be a trip to MAM if I didn’t end there.

As an art teacher, I look to Robert Henri as one of THE art teachers to look up to. Color Theory, Art Theory, Aesthetics, History, Art Making… if one knows me, the ideas behind the art are as (if not more) important than the final product itself. Here you go… and if you are an art student, her you are…

10 Things the Arts Teach Students

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.

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A long time coming… Thanks Painting Class 2008 – 2009

Waterford Union High School in Oil Painting class of 2008 – 2009

The painting class of 2008 – 2009 took the challenge of creating a series of works that documented their high school and challenged their understanding of how to use oil paints, mediums, power tools, and the very challenging linear perspective as they composed their images. BEginning with a long walk and conversation about composition, the artists came up with their favorite angles of the building and developed their own ideas for the image as they were faced with the challenge of their school as the subject matter. From photography and thumbnail sketches, teamwork and construction of the canvases, the artists created a wide variety of compositions using all the different skills and techniques they had in their art toolbox. Thanks to the following artists for their hard and dedicated work creating a strong and successful body of work. Each one of them created a unique and individual viewpoint of the building that gave them so many memories and skills to last a lifetime. Thank you Waterford Union High School artists.

  • T.E.
  • Erica
  • Daja Braatz
  • Steve Rudan
  • Cameron Robinson
  • Amandine Gerus
  • Brittany Canfield
  • Megan Barker
  • Bina Olafsdaughter
  • Alexandra Jones
  • Mike Bink
  • Maryann Little
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Spring Break, but no break from ART!

January 21, 2013 - Monday - 2nd Semester WELCOME!

Happy Monday – Welcome to Spring Break!

As a note to all the artists I have the opportunity to work with when it is NOT Spring Break… I will be in the building from about 8 – Noon on Monday, April 21 hanging artwork. If you are interested in coming in to work, help, or simply gather supplies for the rest of the vacation (because there is a lot to do when we all get back) come on in and find me. I should be in the art room or in the hall between the atrium and the cafeteria. Have a GREAT SPRING BREAK!

Mr. Korb