Huntertown Art
Here are some of the current and recent art projects created by students at Huntertown. Starting with winter Holidays 2016
Just before the holidays, young students worked on identifying and creating the difference between shapes and forms (shapes are flat, forms are 3 dimensional). Here they are making cubes and turning them into a Jack in the box with a paper spring.
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Fifth graders sewed quilt patches to go along with their Colonial America social studies unit. We looked at traditional quilt patterns, in these images students are making a 9 patch. Other classes made basket quilts and star quilts.
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In late winter, some older students created non traditional self portraits. Featured here are two family members and a dark mood.
Kindergartners learned about the famous artist Matisse, who was a painter until he had to be in a wheel chair, when he learned to make paper collage. Students did the same.
Learning about Egyptian ancient art and culture, making a tiny pyramid and mummy.
Intermediate students experimented with pop out art, a low relief kind of sculpture. We used this opportunity to talk about positive and negative space within a sculpture.
Students of all ages helped in March prepare a stage prop of a large rainbow made of painted and construction paper hands. This gave us a way to talk about multi media art and about purposes of art.
Younger students worked on creating patterns within a paper quilt block.
Immediately after spring break, students loved making a monoprint, it is easy, we got to learn a bit about the mechanics of printmaking, and they made some beautiful images. Some classes are using the images as part of further class projects, such as handmade books.