Craft Outreach takes over Shwab!

Here are a few photos from last weeks Craft Outreach program! A big thanks to all the artists who came to teach our students, David Heustress, Brenda Stein, and Teresa Hays! An even bigger Thanks to Cheekwood Gardens for providing us with this fabulous artists' in residence day :) A day I'm sure my students will not forget!

A Sneak Peak from CHEEKwood!

This past Saturday I went to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens for the first time since Chihuly's exhibition has opened up and OH MY GOODNESS!!! The show is absolutely breath taking! This week for the first week of "Summer School" the students field trips are to the zoo- and the week is "Nature Week." For nature week I'm going to teach the students about Chihuly's artworks at Cheekwood and a little bit about man made versus nature made objects and how they interact with one another. I'm so excited! Then the last week in July I'm taking a group of students to Cheekwood one day and to the Frist the next couple of days following. The students are going to be so psyched as well!

Check out this lesson from Dick Blick on Dale Chihuly I haven't tried it yet but am looking forward to doing it later on in the summer with my Kiddos!

http://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/classroom-chihuly/

Ms. Malone's Art Room has already tried it! Check out her results here

A Trip to the Frist Art Center 9/3/09

I cannot rave enough about the Frist Center! It is Free and always FUN! The students love it, it serves as a great good-behavior incentive, and they learn! The students saw the Chuck Close show yesterday and loved it. Ofcourse those that had been before couldn't wait to make it to Art Quest...

Finger Print Portraits (like Chuck Close!), Painting, and Printmaking...

Line Communication, (students draw on the plexi-glass on both sides with dry-erase markers), and magnetic city construction!