Monday, April 22, 2024
Large DYI Palm Tree Decorations
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Spring Art for kids
The following class period, we made more paper leaves with butterflies of tissue paper wings and pipe cleaner bodies. This is a science lesson, in talking about how caterpillars build a cacoon and turn into butterflies, but it was also a literacy lesson since we read, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" during class.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Spring Student Art Show: Edifice Sweet Edifice
Our architecture unit included a trip to an architecture firm, videos, audio described slide lectures and writing assignments on types of architecture and the great buildings throughout art history. Students made elevation drawings, blue print inspired cyanotypes, cardboard and clay sculptures of houses, shops, castles, and churches. And a totem pole of some of the most famous buildings in the world. It's been a productive couple of months culminating in our student art show: Edifice, Sweet Edifice!
Monday, March 18, 2024
History of Architecture Ceramic Totem Pole
Clay House Assignments
Personal Cyanotype Assignment
We used the shape of a house to frame most of the images in order to keep with the theme of buildings/ homes.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Cyanotype Murals Art Lesson
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Making Art History Accessible for the Blind (Architecture Unit)
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Architecture Firm field trip
Education is more meaningful when there is a clear connection between what is being taught and real-life application. Do you think architects need to know about important buildings in Art History? Do you think they understand how to use color, form, texture, pattern etc? Absolutely! The principles we study in Art are used in the buildings that surround us. And our architecture unit called for a peek into the projects and the in-and-outs of a favorite architecture firm (BTBB) just a few miles from our school. Architect, Bob Brown, is married to my friend and coworker, Linda, who has been at the Academy for the Blind for over 30 years. BTBB has been working on so many projects from rock climbing gym to an ice cream parlor, from classrooms and shops, to loft apartments and even the historic Capricorn Records building. It's hard to drive through downtown Macon without seeing many of the buildings they drew up the plans to build or renovate.
Students got to hold the massive spec books and blue prints and listen to what a day in the life of an architect is like. Then we were off to pizza for lunch! Hooray for community partners in eduation!