Visual Arts

Brazilian rain forest mural 2015 – 2nd Grade

Inspired by the work of Henri Rousseau – Second Grade (2015), one of twelve created for fund-raising event

Summer Flowers by Elizabeth K

Anchor

Montague Sculpture Fields

Culture fest 2016

Fifth Grade shoes, 2016

Wolves – Kindergarten 2016

Kinders created red and grey wolves using painted papers they had made and wallpaper

Beehive After School Arts Program

Students channeled Matisse this Spring, 2016, acrylic on canvas

Beehive After School Arts Program

Goldfish bowl, Grades 3-5, acrylic paintings on canvas

Coco Rescue Dog Visit 2016

Ivy Academy Science teacher Jim Watson brought COCO the rescue dog to visit our Third Graders. We talked about art, drawing & painting, Jim’s work with rescue dogs, dog breeds and their history, science, geography and so much more while the kids drew and painted Coco!

Second grade profiles 2015-16

Students tackled expressionistic profiles in chalk, 2016

Michaels Mandala – 2016

Mandala using fractions by Michael, 2016

Mandala by Walker – 2016

Watercolor, 2016

Art Show

Photo of art

2nd Grade- Animal Mural

Second grade Brazilian Rain Forest Mural #2

Fifth Grade – Mural

Fourth grade Animal Mural

Fourth Grade designs for Aboriginal mural, 2015

First grade Animal Mural

First grade african wildlife designs for mural, 2015

Artists salon Nate Dallimore as Leonardo

Fifth grader as Leonardo at Artist’s Soiree

Photo of teamwork

Fifth grade creating graffiti mural, 2015

Photo of painting

Arkadi Monastery monk (Crete), acrylic on birch board, 2015

Photo of high five team

Team Work Makes the Dream Work, 2015

Murals 2015

Matterhorn Winter Sports – Third Grade mural, 2015

Photo of Connors howler monkey

Mixed media Second grade howler monkey in Brazilian rain forest, 2015

Artists salon – Abby Ligon

Michael Wimmer – Fifth Grade

Sculptor Michael Wimmer demonstrates his techniques to Fifth Grade students and their parents – 2010

Renoir visits his paintings

Chancel of San Vitale Ravenna Medieval

Byzantine mosaics in Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy – 2011

Jack Patton – 2009

Mola – 2012

Indian masks

Mosaic coyotes

Ella Saks

Indian dolls

Joya carving block – 2012

Zanaya Bonnie – 2012

Camilla Mook

Harrison and Ash – 2012

Alice Martin

Art Teacher – Ryan Patterson

2016-17 Dates

October 18, 2016 – First Grade field trip to see THE JUNGLE BOOK, Chattanooga Theatre Center
November 3, 2016 – Fourth Grade field trip to see LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW at Memorial Auditorium
December 13, 2016 – Fifth Grade field trip to see A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta
January 18, 2017 – Fourth Grade MUSEUM COLLECTORS’ DAY

Stay tuned, more special events to come!

Creative Gift Ideas

Books about Art

Especially those by Bob Raczka: NO ONE SAW and ART IS… – two great ones!

Art supplies

Oil pastels, watercolor paint and paper, good brushes, DO-a-DOT kits, unlined journals, Zentangle books and supplies – (paper and markers), a ruler and compass, colored or watercolor pencils, printmaking supplies – soap erasers, a carving tool (gouge) and ink pads, quality air-dry clay like paperclay (paintable), and FIMO or Sculpey, Twisteez wire for sculpture projects, sets of art pencils with charcoal and sepia crayons too!

Educational Success

“The educational success of our children depends on creating a society that is both literate and imaginative, both competent and creative. This success depends, in turn, on providing children with tools not only for understanding their world but for contributing to it while making their own way. Without the arts to help shape students’ perceptions and imaginations, our children stand every chance of growing into adulthood as culturally disabled. We must not allow that to happen.”

National Art Education Association Education Reform Handbook, 1995

Why Visual Literacy?

“Tests show that people can remember the content of more than 2,500 pictures with at least 90% accuracy 72 hours after exposure even though the subjects see each picture only for about 10 seconds. Recall rates one year later still hovered around 63%. The same research says that if new information is presented orally with no image present, people only remember about 10% of what was presented 72 hours after exposure to the images — but the percentage remembered goes up to 65% if a picture is added to the new material after the fact. It turns out that the reason for this is that the eye processes and interprets the content of complex imagery, such as photographs, 60,000 times faster than it does words.” Burmark, 2002, p.5, Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn, New York: ASCD

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