Trying to squeeze in one more project with first grade before the rotation is over. Modigliani style self portraits. But first, we practice! Long necks, blank almond shape eyes, oval heads, long skinny noses, and small closed mouths.
1st grade is working on Ted Harrison inspired row houses.
Middle School Studio Art has their designs on fabric for their batik. Can you recognize the famous works of art they choose to draw from??
Middle School Studio Art has begun engineering tubular sculpture inspired by Alexander Liberman. No rules, just gotta use the tubes, glue, and scissors. …to be painted later.
I did this once a long while ago when I taught elementary in Delaware. I made a tree and changed its leaves, decoration, and animals for each season. I decided to do that here at Nebinger this year since I have a big ok basement hallway to play around with.
This is just the start of it… Hard to find the extra time to work on this. I need more leaves for the “ground” to represent the falling of the leaves in autumn. The leaves up there now were made by the lower grade autistic support classes.
We will change it to no leaves during winter (maybe keep some on the ground) and add snow and snowflakes. Maybe even some snowy owls.
A lot is going on at Nebinger in the art world!
We had a fantastic field trip to the PMA…My middle school studio art students…
I really like this photo 🙂
Lots of observational drawing and discussion on art
Here is a list poem the students collaborated on with our guide, Rebecca:
This group of students will have work on display at the PMA in January, as they are part of the Delphi Art Partners.
In addition to that, I went to Fresh Artists today and was pleased to see one of our students art on permanent display in their outdoor space. 🙂 The art to the right is Nebinger work! 🙂
Roy’s work, pictured above is also on display at the Comcast Building on Market Street. His classmate Robert also has a piece in that show! These kids get better art cred than me!
My middle school studio arts students are learning Batik through our partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. So far we have practiced using the tjanting (the drawing tool) in the hot wax and have begun to plan out our collaborative Batik piece. Ms. Donna Backues (our resident artist) has been wonderful in leading my students through the process. It’s all very exciting and I look forward to seeing the progress.
Ms. Grace Face 