Art
Aware scouts selected the artwork for the “2006 Camden Children
at Peace Doing Art” poster from 14 public and parochial elementary
schools.*
The
Camden School District should be commended for having art teachers
in every elementary school. Look at the artwork they initiated from
all ages (see grade levels in parentheses)! Such creativity! Such
variety!
Collages
made from small pieces of paper (5th, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd)
| A
large flower design in Georgia O’Keeffe style (1st) |
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A
landscape. Paint is eyedropped onto the paper and then the students
blow through straws to push the paint where they want it to go.
(4th) |
| Variations
of Vincent Van Gogh’s starry day/night (2nd) |
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Watercolors
and markers used in intricate designs (2nd, 2nd, 7th)
| A
still life and a button/straw collage by kindergarteners |
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A
stained-glass window, a tissue paper collage (2nd, 4th) |
| A
watercolor/crayon-resist islandscape (2nd) |
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A
pre-K monoprint, a close-up eye study (5th) |
| A
portrait, a 3-D construction of Nefertiti (4th) |
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It is
essential that each student’s creativity be encouraged and celebrated.
It has been proven (see article on website) that art activities raise
success levels in all academic areas.
In 2005,
after presenting reproductions of fine artwork, Art Aware presenters
often demonstrated in hands-on exercises that one doesn’t have
to be able to draw realistic images in order to create great art.
Modern artists such as the Impressionists, the Abstract Expressionists,
Piet Mondrian, Victor Vasarely and others illustrated this point.
And
to prove that each student could tap into his or her creativity we
had the class do small designs which we put into a larger mural which
turned into GREAT ARTWORK and celebrated the ingenuity of the whole
class.
In 2006
we look forward to taking classes to the Andrew Wyeth retrospective
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and to performances of Julie
Taymor's “The Lion King” at the Academy of Music (June 14 and July 5) in addition
to our usual activities of enabling students to tap into their inner
resources through examining reproductions of fine art.
*Names
of schools (and their art teachers): Bonsall (Gail), Cramer (Watkins),
Cream (Neely), Davis (Grey, Sherby), Forest Hill (Spann, Jones), Holy
Name (Mattern), Mcgraw (Mann), Molina (Harrington), Parkside (Auge),
St. Joe’s Pro Cathedral (Brown), Sharp (Saeger),Sumner (Allen,
Savarese), Washington (Sassano), Yorkship (Baskin, MacArthur).
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Posted
8 May 2006
http://www.artaware.org/artnews2005.htm
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