The Art Room: March 2015

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

5th grade yarn bombing

Yarn bombing is a new form of street art. Like graffiti, it's illegal but its intentions are to spread warmth, love and color throughouth cities across the globe. We used an old cup as a mold, dipped our yarn in glue, strand by messy strand, and created a design that covered the cup. Once the glue dried, we removed the cup and our creations were complete,

Monday, March 2, 2015

5th grade "Design an Ad" project

5th grade artists looked closely at what makes a good print advertisement. Students were given a real local business. Using their iPads, they had to research their business to find out what they sell and who they are trying to sell it to. They then had to create a memorable ad with a headline and illustration. The projects are headed to the Business owners themselves, where they will choose which ads to run in the actual newspaper! They've got some work to do, because our ads came out great!

10 things learned in Art

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

5th grade yarn bombing

Monday, March 2, 2015

5th grade "Design an Ad" project