Thursday, May 3, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Irving Art Fest 2012
Mark your calendar for May 17th!
This year's Art Fest is going to be a true celebration of the arts! In the hallways there will be visual art on display representing all Irving students. There will also be Music, Dance, Spanish, Poetry, and Dramatic performances throughout the evening.
The event is being organized by Ms. Linne, Ms. Tarabus, Mrs. Hiolski, Ms. Noonan, Ms. Zaragoza, Mr. Williams, Mr. Packer, and Mr. Hancock.
We hope to see you there!
This year's Art Fest is going to be a true celebration of the arts! In the hallways there will be visual art on display representing all Irving students. There will also be Music, Dance, Spanish, Poetry, and Dramatic performances throughout the evening.
The event is being organized by Ms. Linne, Ms. Tarabus, Mrs. Hiolski, Ms. Noonan, Ms. Zaragoza, Mr. Williams, Mr. Packer, and Mr. Hancock.
We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
10 Lessons the Arts Teach
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.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.
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.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Head, Body, Legs!
These 2nd grade works of art were inspired by the story "Head, Body, Legs." The students read the story in their classroom and created their own bodies in art class. Since the story came from Africa, in art we discussed the similarities between the illustrations in the story and other paintings by African artists. The 2nd graders learned how to draw and cut out each part of the body from colored paper, then they used paper fasteners to put their bodies together and paint to add details to the face and clothes.
The students "bodies" can now be seen in the hallways of Irving School. Some of them turned out to be the same size and the students themselves!
Monday, January 30, 2012
Collaborative Painting by the 5th graders
With the assistance of guest artist, Jenny Tiner, each of the 5th grade classes are working on a collaborative painting. Each student will have an opportunity to work on the painting along with their classmates during art. Before beginning the paintings, we discussed the importance of being respectful towards other students' work and expressing yourself and what you are feeling through the paint.
When completed, the three paintings will be up for sale as a part of the silent auction during Irving's Fun Fair on February 25th.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Winter Wonderland!
It may not be snowing yet in Oak Park, but the students have been making some beautiful snowy pictures the past few weeks!
(Kindergarten Snow People)
(1st grade Snowy Day Collages, inspired by The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Students on the Green Team helped me attach some of the recycled CDs to the fence yesterday. We decided it looked cool to make the CDs form a wave across the fence.
However, we are going to need a lot more donated CDs to be able to stretch across the whole fence. So if you have some, bring them to the art room!
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