Molas are a Central and South American art form originating in Panama as a traditional clothing art of the Kuna women. Molas are created by layering fabric in a subtractive method where the next layer is placed behind the first and it shows through the shapes that are cut away from the first layer. Then the process is repeated as the shapes are cut away. It is a very tedious process! The 3rd grade students imitated this process using paper and layers smaller shapes on top of larger shapes. We used, reused and reused again to eliminate paper waste! The results are beautiful!
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Students will begin voting the week of April 25th on which of these Michigan endangered species will be our Art for the Sky image in June! Dear Lindemann students and families, I am so excited to announce that earlier this school year we were awarded a grant through the MCACA - Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs to fund a school-wide project called Art for the Sky. Daniel Dancer is the founder of Art for the Sky and has completed this project at hundreds of schools all over the country and a few international projects. Our Art for the Sky project is scheduled for the second week in June. Daniel Dancer will be at our school Wednesday June 8th – Friday June 10th with our “Sky Art” day schedule for Thursday 9th. A video like this https://vimeo.com/119596234 will be created for our school community too. For more information, you can visit http://www.artforthesky.com/htm/howitworks.htm or Art for the Sky on facebook to see the most recent projects. I am asking the families to discuss this experience with your children at home. I want us to work together a community to spread the excitement and build anticipation for this opportunity. We will be the 1ST SCHOOL IN MICHIGAN to participate in an Art for the School project. I anticipate our story may be covered by the local news media. I’d also like to form a committee of parent volunteers to help with logistics preparing for our guest artists arriving and also some parents to help on the day of the event. Please read and research the information below and email me at [email protected] if you are interested in helping. Originally, t-shirts for the students were written into the grant, but after discussing this further with Danial Dancer, he requires t-shirts be environmentally friendly, organic cotton, which increases the cost beyond our means. T-shirts are not necessary for the project, but if anyone has any companies or businesses that may be interested in sponsoring this aspect of the project, please contact me. Again, this is not necessary, but I’d hate to find out later on that we missed an opportunity simply because I didn’t ask. "Art For the Sky is a unique, team building activity for schools and special events that helps dissolve boundaries that often exist in our daily lives. These enchanting creations are a whole-body way of stimulating our imagination to see the elusive "big picture" and help us understand our interconnection with one another and all life." Third grade learned about the traditions of the Ashanti people from Ghana and their decorative Adinkra clothes that are stamped from calabash gourds. We read The Talking Cloth to understand the mean of the Adinkra cloth and the colors they use. We finished up the end of the year with the chilly continent of Antarctica. With no permanent human inhabitants, we concentrated on the animals and landscapes of this Southern-most continent. Kindergarten and 1st Grade - Snowflake Prints
2nd Grade Penguins at Play2nd Grade created tints by adding white to blue to create these icy, Arctic landscapes. And what Antarctic landscape would be complete without a few penguins?! 3rd Grade grey-scale Empire penguin baby3rd grade created a simple grey scale painting with these baby penguins. A value scale is the different hues of a color from light to dark.
3rd Grade Clay CastlesThey used a slab technique with a template that they created. They added texture to create a stone effect.
Our art show, VIVA!, will showcase many aspects of Mexican culture and art, so of course we could not forget the great Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera! I began this lesson by teaching the students about Frida and Diego, their significant works and their impact on the art world in Mexico. The Detroit Institute of Arts had a special exhibition during March - July of this year on these two artist and their time spent here in Detroit while Diego painted the industry murals at the DIA. I shared my book of the exhibition with the kids as well as a few other books. 3rd grade worked on mini portraits of these famous artists while 5th grade worked in groups to complete extra large portraits.
In preparation for our fall show, students at the elementary and high school levels are studying and drawing the same photos of objects and scenes from Mexican culture to show student development and growth.
Here are a few examples of the elementary progression. |
AuthorHello! I'm Ms. Trapani and I have been teaching art at Lindemann since 2010. This blog is to share all the wonderful things that happen in the Lindemann art room! Archives
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