Category: Art News

What is TAB and Choice-Based Art?

What is going on in the art room?!  We’re now a TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behaviors) and choice-based art classroom.  Here’s some information on what to expect this year. 

How will my child show progress with TAB? These are the development stages for artistic development.  TAB allows children to move through these stages at their own pace. Students will show growth weekly, monthly, and yearly. Students keep portfolios to reflect on how they’ve grown.

Here’s more information:

Read more about 21st Century Skills here.

Read more about TAB: http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org

Here’s a view of our TAB classroom. I’ll make small changes as we learn and grow, but this is how our room is organized at the beginning of the year.

 

TAB- Update: First Two Weeks

Life is good in the art room! Students are learning about our new centers and we’ve opened up three out of eight so far: drawing, inspiration, and collage. We’ll be opening up a new one each week.

*New this year:  Each student has a portfolio to keep his/her artwork in. Students will choose which artworks will be displayed at school and which artworks to bring home.

 

 

New ideas, new school year!

Welcome back to Southside!

This year will bring some changes in the art room. We’ll have a T.A.B. art classroom this year. T.A.B. stands for teaching for artistic behaviors. Learn more about T.A.B. here. I’m so excited!

We will open centers one at a time. After several weeks, we will have these centers open: drawing, collage, painting, fiber arts, inspiration, sculpture, and rotating. The rotating center will have different options throughout the year, such as: clay, architecture, and printmaking.

 

3rd gr.- Assemblage Sculptures

Abstract art lets artists use their imagination and create unrealistic art. Abstract art can even be a sculpture. Artist, Louise Nevelson, created abstract sculptures from pieces of wood that she found. She assembled the wood into sculptures. This type of sculpture is called an assemblage.

We will make abstract wooden assemblages inspired by Louise Nevelson. Goals:

  1. My assemblage can stand on its own.
  2. My assemblage uses many different shapes.
  3. My assemblage includes at least one object that I found.
  4. My assemblage is all painted.
  5. I can talk about what my assemblage could mean.

Bernard Williams is also an assemblage sculptor. How do his sculptures look different from Louise Nevelson’s?

2017- Art to Remember Ordering

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Students have worked so hard and just completed their Art to Remember artworks. They are impressive!

Important dates:

  • Friday, March 24– Order forms sent home
  • Friday, March 31 (before Spring Break)– Online/phone orders due

Please make sure your Art to Remember order form has your student’s name and artwork on it. Each form is personalized, so it is very important that you have your student’s order form. *If you have another student’s order form, please return it to me (Ms. Baird) and I will get you a new one. 

This year, Southside is using online or phone orders only. Directions on how to order are on the back of your order form. Please do not send completed orders, checks, or money to school.

If you have any questions, please contact me at: sara.baird@woodford.kyschools.us

Thank you!

5th grade- Picasso Papier Mache Mask

Masks have been made all around the world. Many cultures have used masks for celebrations, ceremonies, special occasions, or for fun. When have you worn a mask?

The artist, Pablo Picasso looked at masks, too. He looked at masks from many African cultures and was inspired by their use of geometric shapes.

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We’re going to create a mask based on Picasso. Here are our goals:

  1. Mask must show a human face with eyes, nose, and mouth. It doesn’t have to be realistic.
  2. Mask shows inspiration from Picasso’s Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism, OR Picasso’s original inspiration: African masks.
  3. Mask must be fully painted.
  4. Mask should be carefully papier mached, with no visible holes or cracks.

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