This is the cover letter to acompany each student's art work. 

Art Work To Go Home #1                                                               November 2017

     ”Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”  

                               E. Degas

Dear Parents,

This art work was created by   each artist specifically to bring home to share.

Each student creates  a specific piece or pieces for your enjoyment. Keep the art work, and return the sleeve to school.

When we talk about art work at school we talk about what we “notice”. When we notice something about a piece of art it is not always what we “like”.  It could be the colors – bright, dark, many or few. Kinds of shapes, lines and textures attract attention. Commonly students notice the subject of another’s art work – animals, sports, and of course, rainbows. 

Types of lettering are interesting to the artists.

Feel free to email me msansoucie@sau16.org  if you have any comments, questions or would like to visit art class. 

 I would change the sentence to read, “Art is not what you see, but what you lead others to see. “

                                                                                                                            

MEMORIES  all school exhibit...

The art work selected from 2016-17 portfolios is in the hallways of EKES. Take time to enjoy it when you are visiting. The pieces will be up for a while.
Media and themes are varied: "Blue Dog",  fall and winter themes,

geometric designs,with slick sticks, collage, colored pencils.and watercolors..., 

slick sticks

pop art label for "I Can"

gardens  - view out 

These sketches are based on the activity "1-12". Twelve objcts have postits on them . After looking at them, students choose 4 to sketch. Then they are working on art inspired by 

 one of the four.

Museum Share #1 for 2017-18
If you have ever noticed yellow postits in your child's prior sketchbooks, this may be of interest to you. They are from a "Museum Share"of a classes'art work. The selected work is positioned on the tables. Student arrange the needed postits on a page. Then they circulate through the "museum", look at everyone's and make a tiny sketch of  everyone's work.  Here are some pics.

We gather on the rug for each to then share what was noticed about someone's work - color, details, texture, shapes, and theme are the most frequently noticed art elements.
This is largely a 2nd-4th type of sharing.  The 5th graders prefer circulating and writing an art based comment on their classmates' works.

from the ARTIST WORKSHOP

How do I guide students to  improving sketching  styles without taking away personal strengths and interests ? A fun way I found  includes movement, observing and choice. I numbered 12 places/images with sticky notes. The class  (2-4^th grade) was to walk around, look at all images and then sketch at least 4 in sketchbooks.

 Number 12 was on the window where we have a view of the gardens.

This is the cover of the book “The Cat and The Bird” about Paul Klee.

 Number one was a photo of a piece of fabric art winter scene with a reflection.

This quartet includes the Miro, Charley Harper’s “Cardinal” ( a calendar reproduction.) the plant on my desk, and one of the drums in the room. 

 This is the oxalis on my desk. 

 This is the quilt with sunflowers, with the wall behind it. 

  

more "Sketchbook Cover Art"

With 3 Tuesday sessions and 2 for Friday's classes, we have some sketchbook cover art laminated. A share time will be planned soon for "cover art"or portfolios.

 I'll be at school for the Open House.

 "We Can"sculptures are in the hall near the office, and library. Some have been hung on the wall also.

repeated colorful images

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-kids-presents-pop-art

  I was at the Exeter Town Hall Gallery Saturday LOTS of people.This is the Youth Art Month exhibit including all the SAU 16 schools as well as other area schools.
Open 12 - 4:00 March 12, 18, 19, & 25

REMINDER Youth Art Month exhibit opens at the Exeter Town Hall on  March 11, 12:00- 4:00, all are welcome and the hours for March 12, 18, 19 and 25 are the same. Art from all the SAU 16 schools as well as other area schools will be on exhibit. Works from EKES were selected from the great selection at art class projects to represent  the outstanding work that is created every day at EKES. 

From the ARTISTS WORKSHOP

Youth Art Month

It is with great honor that I announce the EKES artists that will have work on display at the Youth Art Month exhibit at the Exeter Town Hall. The opening is March 11, 12:00- 4:00, all are welcome and the hours for March 12, 18, 19 and 25 are the same. Art from all the SAU 16 schools as well as other area schools will be on exhibit. Works from EKES were selected from the great selection at art class projects to represent  the outstanding work that is created every day at EKES. The YAM exhibitors for 2017 are Maia White, Leanne Downs, Ethan  Kramer,  Cameron Massicotte, Nicolas Metcalf, Reid LaBroad, Kendall McBride, Christian Arcidi, Jack Lessard , Vera Webber, Abigail Kobrenski, Kennedie Gallant, Kaylee Miller, and Egan Beveridge. 

Happy New Year From the ARTISTS WORKSHOP

There are varied projects in progress, and starting in Art Classes as we kick off the year. Fifth graders are completing  woven pouches. These are part of their Social Studies “Trade Fair”. It is a challenging project, but end of the year conversations with prior classes reliably contain comments about it being their favorite( or one of), and yes, I should do it again.  The students of 4T have done circular weavings. They are hanging on the wall as you go up the ramp near the Art/Music Room. The 3/4 class have done rectangular weavings, which go home/have gone home after a sketch is done in their sketchbooks.  Basic, guided collage landscapes have been created by Kindies that are also on the wall  near the Art/Music room.  Using staplers and paper punches are part of this project, and prove to be effective tools. Also, 1O, and 1/2 Y created  winter landscapes of their own design. Some made reindeer by tracing their hands, and cut triangle trees, but many just had their own plans. The students of 2S did paper snowflakes last week and will be looking at some winter landscapes to enhance with more snowflakes. I take photos as much as possible, and post some to www.artistworkshop.blogspot.com

Survey Information

Thank you for the great response to the survey that went home with the report cards in December. I made several interesting discoveries, and plan on addressing some in upcoming Wednesday letters, as well as this one.

First, AWTGH stands for Art Work To Go Home. And yes all of their art work does go home, most of it is in portfolios that go home in June. The AWTGH pieces are small, specifically created pieces that fit in sleeves for their protection and go home at the time of  report cards for Trimesters 1 & 2. Since they are small,  the momentum allows trying, and comparing a variety of media. One  class session is devoted to planning, by talking about and doing thumbnail sketches of their ideas. These AWTGH  planning papers will be included in their final folders in June.

ART WORDS

After I saw that few students were using art language in sharing, I have renewed an emphasis on presenting/reviewing vocabulary as part of each class. They see it in writing, read it, and write it in their sketchbooks. Recent words include weaving, tapestry, loom, warp, weft, ( 3/4 W, 4T &5th),  3S also discussed weaving, pattern and 3- dimensional in relation to the baskets they took home in December. Watercolor, and still-life are the next words related to this project.  K-2 saw, read, and many wrote landscape, collage. Background, and foreground were part of the lesson for 1/2Y and 2S. Introductory work with sculpture and 3-dimensional were connected to work with blocks for KD, KG and 1O. As with any vocabulary work, they need to see, write and use them several times as well as having personal experience with the meanings before they “own” the words.