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8th Grade Students used a variety of technologies, i.e. digital camera, scanners, Gimp and Comic Life to create a work of art that looked similar to the style of Andy Warhol (http://www.warhol.org/). View all of the students’ creations on Artsonia at: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=308685
Taught Rotation 1: September 13th 2010, Taught Rotation 2: October 16th 2010, Taught Rotation 3: January 4th 2010, Taught Rotation 4: February 22nd 2011
- We live in a visual age. Most children and youth spend 10 hours per day in front of screens composed of pictures and words, often two types of screens at once.
- The arts provide jobs. 1.25 million Americans currently work in the visual arts. Jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 43% by 2016.
- Art education equips students to form mental images, which can be used to solve problems—an ability that chemists, engineers, and architects use to create models and that inventors use to think up new ideas.
- Art education requires students to use their eyes and hands to give form to ideas generated in the brain—a discipline that Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel proved boosts brain power.
- Research also indicates that high school art programs engage students and keep in school those at-risk of dropping out.
8th Grade students used clay carving tools and Ivory soap to make simple sculptures. Visit the Ivory website for How-To’s and ideas if you want to create your own soap sculptures (http://www.ivory.com/PureFun_IvoryProjects_SoapCarvingTips.htm). View all of the students’ creations on Artsonia at: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=372454
Taught Rotation 4: February 10th 2011
8th Grade students used their portrait drawings from their Comic Life project and choose an analyougus color to use while blending and coloring their portraits with oil pastels or chalk pastels. View all of the students’ creations on Artsonia at: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=312088
Taught Rotation 1: September 19th 2010, Taught Rotation 2: November 17th 2010, Taught Rotation 3: December 16th 2010, Taught Rotation 4: February 14th 2011
8th grade students took photos of themselves in poses in order to make a designer project of themselves with patterns and colors. View all of the students’ creations on Artsonia at:http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=307999
Taught Rotation 1: September 8th 2010, Taught Rotation 2: November 8th 2010, Taught Rotation 3: December 14th 2010, Taught Rotation 4: February 11th 2011
8th Grade Students viewed various examples of silhouettes. Student then cuts silhouettes of items in action out of black paper to mount on white paper. Once complete, all of the works were hung to make a Black and White Gallery. View all of the students’ creations on Artsoniahttp://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=353250
Taught Rotation 3: January 14th 2011, Taught Rotation 4: February 10th 2011
8th Grade students used a photograph of themselves to make a black and white portrait drawings to be used later for their Comic Life project and their Oil Pastel Portraits. View all of the students’ creations on Artsonia at:http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=310231
Taught Rotation 1: September 19th 2010, Taught Rotation 2: November 17th 2010, Taught Rotation 3: December 16th 2010, Taught Rotation 4: February 10th 2011
