Art With Miss Emily
Term One is coming to a close and it has been a huge term in the art room which culminated with our Adelaide Fringe School Camp.
The F-2 class began the term by creating an art work to display on the front cover of their art portfolios. Students had free range on this task, they created their backgrounds, used photos of themselves and cut out letters from magazines to form their names to create a cover page that best describes their individual creative minds and personalities. These portfolios are where we will be collating their art works and learning on different artists and their works to take home at the end of the year. The portfolios are on display in the art room at all times so parents can come in and look at what their child has been learning and exploring during class.
The curriculum for the F-2 class is strongly based on experimenting with different techniques and using other artists works to guide them in this exploration and experimentation as a way of building on their confidence to try new things and problem solve in creative ways to make their art work. This term students have explored the works of two artists, Dale Chihuly and Henri Matisse. As a class we have created artworks together to display as a whole and then students have used what they’ve learnt in the group environment to create their own individual artworks with great success.
The 3-6 class and the 7-9 class have both spent the term focusing on the glass artist Dale Chihuly. Students have learnt about the artist and his career, they have used his work as inspiration to create some marvelous art works and they have had the privilege of travelling to Adelaide to witness Chihuly’s art work in all its glory at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens where students were given a guided tour and were given access to activities along the way allowing them to make real connections with what they had been learning in the class room.
The 3-4 students undertook a Makers Empire challenge course called Watching Glass Grow which took students on a journey from how glass is created and how it has been used in both the ancient and modern worlds. They looked at the ways different Artists such as Chihuly and Thomas Moore use and manipulate glass in order to create their art.
The 5-6 students using Chihuly as their inspiration have created their own sculptures representing mini worlds of light and colour.
The 7-9 students have completed artist research pages on Chihuly and worked as a group to create an instillation piece that is close to completion and will be hung for display in the art room for all to enjoy. Whilst in Adelaide the senior class not only got to visit the Chihuly exhibition but they were also taken on a tour of the Jam Factory where they got to go behind the scenes and see what it is to work in a real working artist studio, woodworking, furniture, ceramics, metal/jewellery and of course the amazing glass studio where they got to watch the glass artists at work.
