Spring Celebration of the Arts- Fine Arts Night
Kinders penguin collages. I saw this idea on Artsonia, a great place to get ideas! Notice that I used snowflake printed wrapping paper to cover the display board. This is an inexpensive way to add some pizazz to your displays.
Printed Pointsettias based on Georgia O'Keeffe and made by using cut styrofoam shapes to print.
Faith Ringgold Story Quilts by 2nd Grade. Students painted a place they would love to fly over and claim, like Cassie Lightfoot in the book Tar Beach. They added fabric borders and wrote a story around the edge. A digital photo of them flying was added to the sky. This was a first try project. It might be a keeper...
These metal masks with hanging beads and clay faces were the hit of the show. The clay faces were inspired by the artist Kimmy Cantrell. They were made by 5th grade.
Most of my displays are arranged by project so that I can hang a sign explaining them. However, I always hang the Young-Fives (AKA Developmental Kindergarten) art all together and add a sign that emphasizes "It's the PROCESS, not the PRODUCT!"
2nd Grade "Picasso Monsters", modified from a lesson in Arts & Activities Magazine, in which only witches were made. Many of the kids loved making vampires this year. I wonder why?
These Wild Things made by 1st graders also included a story they wrote by chosing adjectives from a list and filling in the blanks. This idea comes from Dryden Elementary School, another of my favorite Artsonia sites.
3rd Grades made these Frank Lloyd Wright inspired stained glass windows using overhead film and Gallery Glass.
Golden Gourds, also created by 3rd Grade- lesson found on the Deep Space Sparkle blog.
WOW - amazing! The work is fantastic and the displays look awesome! Very impressive! Great work!
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What a fantastic art show! There is so much great work! I love the clay faces and metal masks with hanging beads. I'd love to hear more about the process for both of these if you ever post them.
ReplyDeleteKudos to you for such a great job!
Thank you for your comments! I will be sure to blog about the metal masks and clay faces VERY soon. They are a favorite among my students.
ReplyDeleteWow such good art work!! I would also like to hear more about those metal masks! Unfortunately, I do not have a kiln to do clay ones, but I do have that foil. Did you have to use permanent markers on them?
ReplyDeleteYes, permanent markers are used. See the instructions I just posted!
ReplyDeletelove your site!! i had to do a monster art show at a former school-and an idea shared w/me by the cooperating art teacher-hang roll paper first on the wall to create an area for each project, then hot glue the work onto the paper-sounds like a lot of work, but with a cordless glue gun-it goes up in no time!!
ReplyDeleteI have been following you for awhile and just now stumbled upon this post. I am gearing up for the Art Show in May and I need some help. How exactly did you hang all the work on the walls? I used Masking tape last year and it worked great! But I was afraid to put work on large roll paper and then have the large roll paper up on the wall with the masking tape. I was afraid that it would fall. Can you give me some tips and tricks?
ReplyDeleteHi, Becca!
ReplyDeleteI use masking tape for the walls and push pins for the display boards. My show only has to stay up for 3 hours, so that seems to work.
I am released the entire day to work on hanging the show, so I don't need to pre-hang anything on paper rolls. I do know that I have seen an art show hung where they placed rolled paper back to back and hung it from the ceiling. Artwork was hung on this, making portable walls. I hope I explained that cleary. If I happen to find the photo of that show, I will post it for you.
As for my show, it is hung right to the walls. I have extra help this year, so I may have to put a little more thought into using the rolled paper. :)
Denise
Thank you so much. This helps so much!
ReplyDeleteImpressive! what a shame the display stays up for such a short time. truly inspiring.
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