The Art Room

5th grade artists looked at Islamic art. We noticed the patterns, the repeating elements and the lack of representational imagery. We came u...

 4th and 5th grade members of Art club learned how to accurately draw the human eye. We used #2 pencils and blending stumps to create a rang...

First graders watched a youtube video about the colorwheel- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrGkJtSLsk After discussing primary colors, secondary ...

Kindergarten artists read the book "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. We read the book online using the website www.wegivebooks.o...

OPEF (Oak Park Education Foundation), the 2nd grade team, and two art teachers all joined forces as second graders completed a community bui...

5th graders studeied surrealism. We learned the surrealism combines real, common, everyday things in very unusual ways. We looked surreal ar...

Third graders read the book "Robot Zot" by Jon Scieszka. We looked carefully at the pictures and talked about Robot Zot. What make...