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Slidell’s ‘Salad Days’ Art Show for Students

The Salad Days exhibit will open on Friday, January 18, with a reception and awards ceremony at the City Hall gallery (across from the auditorium) from 6 to 8 p.m. Awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. The show will remain on display through Saturday, February 16. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Feb 16, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.


Looking for art classes?  Try Rembrandt Studios in Slidell and/or Bruce Hume Art website, or Art Time in Mandeville.  If your child likes art just keeping plenty of art supplies handy at home and encouraging them to look at art is very helpful.  Artsonia website has lots of children's art from all over the country - it's great for generating ideas.

 

It is my fondest hope that your child will teach you something he or she learned in art class.  If they do, please email me or send in a note with your child and tell me what you learned.  I will present your child with a golden ticket next time they come to art!  Don't forget to remind me who your child's teacher is. mary.christopher@stpsb.org  I tell my students that they may not be able to teach their parents and grandparents about math, english or science, because you all probably already know about these subjects.  But the chances are pretty good that they can teach you something you don't know about art.

Your children love art because they are good at it, but did you know they are learning about many other subjects through their art?  When we learn about famous artists, we find out where they are from on the map. (geography)  And we talk about what happened to them and why or why not people liked their art at the time they created it (social studies)  We learn vocabulary words and sometimes we read books (literacy).  We learn about lines and shapes both 2D and 3D (geometry), colors, values, space and textures (science).  Smart teachers have been using art to teach other subjects for years.  And why not?  It works!  

For our first project each year we create art to decorate the St. Tammany Parish Fair booth - our theme for 2012 was the Louisiana Bicentennial. Other themes we will be studying throughout the year include "South of the Border", "Go East!" and "Art and Weather".

Walter Anderson was our next study.  If you get the chance to take you child to visit his museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi that would be great!  We used water color crayons and purple glue to make organic shapes and prints - they are all different and all wonderful!

Next we ventured to Mexico to study Oaxacan sculptures - and then we used clay to take a look at the ancient culture of the Aztecs.  I hope you get the chance to look up these interesting people and their art on the computer with your child.

We studied George Seurat's pointilism dots to create weather pictures, some of which will hopefully show up on the front page of the Slidell Sentry newspaper.  Seurat was from Paris, France and he studied how lines and colors affect our moods and feelings.  I hope your child can tell you about this!

We will be going to the far east in the near future to have a look at Japanese cherry blossom screens and learn about Hokusai, the artist who painted the "Great Wave" (actually it was a wood-block print).

Our studies are taking us all over the place, and we are learning so much about our world.  Your children will learn alot more about art than we ever did in elementary school!  Maybe they can sing these art songs for you and tell you what all those big words mean:

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FORM, SHAPE, LINE, FORM, SHAPE, LINE
MAKES MY ARTWORK SHINE
COLOR, VALUE, SPACE AND TEXTURE
ALSO MAKE IT MINE!

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HORIZONAL, HORIZONAL, GOES SIDEWAYS, GOES SIDEWAYS
VERTICAL'S LIKE A TREE, VERTICAL'S LIKE A TREE
DIAGONAL'S A SLIDE, DIAGONAL'S A SLIDE
CURVED MAKES A RAINBOW, CURVED MAKES A RAINBOW
THE SPIRAL IS A SNAIL, THE SPIRAL IS A SNAIL
ZIG ZAG ARE THE MOUNTAINS, ZIG ZAG ARE THE MOUNTAINS
WATER IS WAVY, WATER IS WAVY
PARALLEL, PARALLEL, LIKE THE OLD RAILROAD, LIKE THE OLD RAILROAD
RAILROAD TRACKS ARE PARALLEL, RAILROAD TRACKS ARE PARALLEL
I KNOW LINES, I KNOW LINES

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Just for fun, try out these websites with your child:

Learn about the elements of art: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit

Create your own Picasso faces: http://mrpicassohead.com

To get some ideas for some fun and easy art activities:
http://www.Kinderart.com or crayola.com

Incredibleart.org

http://gardenofpraise.com/art.htm




 
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