A blog: How To Use: How This Works

A blog is a web site page that an individual can respond to. This blog can be responded to by clicking on the comment button at the bottom of each entry.

Ms. T, the art teacher, will post information about what is happening in the art lab. 

Topics will include: 

current art projects 

interesting art events in the city 

artists 

art supplies needed in the art lab 

student work 

etc.

I will post something about the art lab each month. I will let students know that there is a new post so they can pass the information on to their parents!

In order to respond and access the blog you must sign into http://www.blogger.com/home you can use your current email account in order to sign into blogger.

You can also start your own blog in blogger if you have info to share with your friends and the world: blogging is free!

Check it OUT!

The President Project

During the culmination of the momentous 2008 presidential elections my 6th and 7th grade students from Hale School were engaged in a conceptual art project during which they were asked to construct their own president(s) in terms of ideas and visual image. 

Images from this project are currently on display at the Hyde Park Art Center (http://www.hydeparkart.org/) on the main floor in the conference room. Please check them out!

The culminating fruits of this endeavor can be viewed and responded to on a blog entitled: The President Project. 

http://the-president-project.blogspot.com/

In order to respond to the blog you must sing into http://www.blogger.com/home you can use your current email account in order to sign into blogger.

Please visit this blog. Please respond and interact. 

Wrapped Sculptures : 1st - 4th Grade

Last Year with the 1st - 3rd grade we made abstract wrapped sculptures based on the art work of Judith Scott! I think that this project was very successful: the Kids loves it! 

This year in February we will be engaging in this project once again!

In order to make this project successful Students need to bring a roll of yarn and, if possible, some masking tape to art class!

Info About Judith Scott 

Judith Scott (born 1943), a fifty-five year old woman with Down's Syndrome, has spent the past ten years producing a series of totally non-functional objects which, to us, appear to be works of sculpture, except that the notion of sculpture is far beyond Judith's understanding. As well as being mentally handicapped, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language. There is no way of asking her what she is doing, yet her compulsive involvement with the shaping of abstract forms in space seems to imply that at some level she knows. Judith possesses no concept of art, no understanding of its meaning or function. She does not know that she is an artist, nor does she understand that the objects she creates are perceived by others as works of art. Whatever she is doing she is definitely not concerned with the making of art. What then is she doing? Unmistakably she is working, and working hard.