Students will be creating their own story to go along with a quilted border. Their stories will be personal narratives, drawn from a memory or experience they wish to display on their story quilt. Many thanks for the donations and volunteers who helped cut thousands of 2 in fabric squares - Thank you!
Faith Ringgold is an American artist, writer, and teacher best known for her narrative story quilts that blend writing, traditional crafts, and painted canvas. She adapted her work "Tar Beach" into a children's book of the same name. The story is a whimsical remembrance of Ringgold's childhood memory of her family's tradition of evening picnics on the roof of their NYC apartment building. In one excerpt, the young girl's father is denied a place in the union because of the color of his skin. In introducing the artist, I felt it was important to mention the fact that some of her stories dealt with areas of civil rights. I also read a brief excerpt from a picture book about Martin Luther King Jr. to better connect to the students' current understanding of the civil rights movement. Students will be creating their own story to go along with a quilted border. Their stories will be personal narratives, drawn from a memory or experience they wish to display on their story quilt. Many thanks for the donations and volunteers who helped cut thousands of 2 in fabric squares - Thank you!
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In the art room students have been finishing their watercolor landscapes inspired by the song and poem "America the Beautiful" written by Kathy Lee Bates. Using palette and liquid watercolors, crayons, tempera sticks, and oil pastels students listened to the Ray Charles version and then created their own inspired landscape paintings based on the verse, "O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!" Starting with their horizon line, students then outlined with their crayons, tempera sticks, and oil pastels various parts of their landscapes including purple mountains, amber fields, and plains of grass. With each student adding their own individual perspective to this project by making unique compositions and creative artistic choices. America looks beautiful through the eyes of Schavey Road artists! "Bonjour!"
Students are finishing with adding a silhouette to their colorful sunsets. Students were able to choose what type of building they wanted for their silhouette. Churches, houses, castles, and of course the Eiffel Tower are all possibilities. Most students choose to make an Eiffel Tower after watching me demonstrate how to create one using black paper and markers. The sunsets were created the previous week in a lesson about mixing colors like the impressionists. "Belle!" |
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