Happy February! Here is a peek into some Lower School art installations around campus.
KINDERGARTEN
100 Day Dot Hearts: Kindergarten students created these colorful heart artworks to celebrate one hundred days in school! While creating they were tasked to count the dots and see if they used 100 (or more)!
FIRST GRADE
Collage Pengiuns: The first graders created these mixed-media penguins inspired by the friendship story of Penguin and Pinecone.
SECOND GRADE
Wassily Kandinsky: The second graders created these wonderful warm & cool concentric circle artworks after learning about artist Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky felt that he could express feelings and music through colors and shapes in his paintings.
THIRD GRADE
Faith Ringgold Story Quilts: Faith Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts. In addition to making art, Faith Ringgold is an activist, teacher, speaker, and the author and illustrator of many children’s books. After reading Ringgold’s Tar Beach–a story of a young girl in Harlem, NY.
FOURTH GRADE
Winter Printmaking: Students created textured landscape designs demonstrating line, texture, fore ground, middle ground, and background and then used foam plates to make multiple prints.
FIFTH GRADE
Winter Birch Trees: Fifth grade students created Winter Birch Trees inspired by printmakers Currier and Ives and their iconic winter landscape prints. Today, original Currier and Ives prints are much sought-after by collectors, and modern reproductions of them are popular decorations.
