Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
Art Program
sponsored by the PTA
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Art Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso |
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Prince
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Art Awareness sponsored by the PTA |
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Our art teacher is Ms. Vandersommers Tulip Grove shares Ms. Vandersommers with two other elementary schools in Bowie, Maryland. But our students still have art about four times a year. The art projects always incorporate art into the core subjects, such as Social Studies, Science, Math, and English. |
The PTA's art awareness program provides art enrichment at Tulip Grove. The lessons are designed and taught entirely by parent volunteers.
Each lesson, based on a poster of a famous piece of art, includes information about the artist, the style or period represented, and specific art concepts or techniques used by the artist. The students then do an art project based on the famous piece.
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Art Awareness Projects, 2009-10 |
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| Stained Glass Louis Comfort Tiffany |
Printmaking Andy Warhol |
The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend |
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Stained -Glass Louis Comfort
Tiffany |
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| A poster of "Vase of Flowers" introduced our students to the translucent art of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany was an American artists and designer who was known for his work in stained glass, particularly lampshades. The students created their own mini-stained glass widows using clear vinyl, Sharpie markers, and tissue paper. | ||
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Pre-Kindergarten |
Kindergarten |
1st Grade |
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2nd Grade |
3rd Grade |
4th Grade |
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5th Grade |
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Printmaking Andy Warhol |
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| The students learned about American "Pop" artist, Andy Warhol, who used common everyday images such as Campbell's soup cans, comic strip characters, and movie starts as subject matter for his art work. Andy Warhol used the process of silkreen printmaking to mass produce his art work. The students used a different form of printmaking which involved the creation of a master plate (in this case, Styrofoam) on which they etched an image, applied ink, and pressed paper onto the plate with a brayer. | ||
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Pre-Kindergarten |
Kindergarten |
1st Grade |
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2nd Grade |
3rd Grade |
4th Grade |
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5th Grade |
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Quiltmaking
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quiltmakers of Gee's Bend |
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| Our students were impressed by the resourcefulness of the African-American women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who passed down, for many generations, a unique and sophisticated quilting style. The women of Gee's Bend sewed, by hand, old clothing and linen into fine art quilts. In the tradition of the Gee's Bend quiltmakers, the students took old clothing and linens to create a "no sew" quilt square which was assembled into a large classroom quilt. Some of the individual squares are shown below. | ||
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Pre-Kindergarten |
Kindergarten |
1st Grade |
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2nd Grade |
3rd Grade |
4th Grade |
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5th Grade |
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Art Awareness need volunteers! Tulip Grove's Art Awareness program provides art enrichment to all the students at Tulip Grove. Please help this valuable program continue by giving a few hours of your time to present a lesson or two to your child's class next year.
The committee is losing several of its instructors next year as their children move on to different schools. New instructors must be found if we are to be able to provide the lessons to all of Tulip Grove's students! Willing to help?? Contact Kim Allegrezza by calling the school, or sending e-mail to kimsterthirteen@yahoo.com |
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Art Awareness Projects from Previous Years |
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| THE BOOK OF KELLS (Illuminated Manuscripts) |
Munch's The Scream (color and emotion) |
Sculpture Rodin |
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Illuminated Letters
The Book of Kells |
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Using the Book of Kells as an example, students will learn how the process
was done in medieval times -- scraping hide to make parchment, and
grinding gems and minerals to create colors. Each child will get a
sheet of parchment, create an elaborate first initial and write their
name, in the style of The Book of Kells, using markers and a gold ink
pen for the illumination and decoration.
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Pre-Kindergarten |
1st Grade |
2nd Grade |
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3rd Grade |
4th Grade |
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Expressionist Art Munch |
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Using The Scream by Edvard Munch and the book, The Great Blueness and
Other Predicaments by
Arnold Lobel,
students will realize how the emotions of a color and the strokes of a
line will give a picture "feeling". Then students will use oil
pastels/craypas to create an emotional picture.
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Kindergarten |
1st Grade |
2nd Grade |
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Third Grade |
Fourth Grade |
Fifth Grade |
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Rodin Sculpture |
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TULIP GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, BOWIE, MD |
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