Gabby's awesome Hundertwasser-inspired Landscape is featured at the Family Physicians/Ridgefield Parkway offices until Fall. Congrats Gabby!
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Thank you to all who were able to come out to the first HCPS Fine Arts Festival! It was a wonderful weekend and celebration of all the amazing work our students create. I am so proud of them! Sorry, it has been way too long since I have written... Our halls have "fresh" work up and it looks like spring! Kindergarten "Rain" Self Portraits, 1st grade Keith Haring Symbolic Figures, 2nd grade Georgia O'Keefe Watercolor/glue Flowers and F. Hundertwasser Imaginative Landscapes, 3rd grade AMAZING Raymond Saa-inspired Mixed Media Collages, 4th grade Bird-inspired Clay Vessels, and soon, 5th grade Romero Britto-inspired Paintings. Many of these projects are now in the online galleries as well - more to come. Your artists have been working hard! Exciting news! Please join us THIS COMING WEEKEND for the *NEW* HCPS Fine Arts Festival at Glen Allen High School. I will be there first thing on Saturday morning and last thing on Sunday afternoon. Please see the above invitation for hours and location. Students whose work will be exhibited will be receiving a special invitation Tuesday. We enjoyed a wonderful reception at Our Lady of Hope Health Center (next door!) yesterday. This gave young and old an opportunity to enjoy some art and conversation. Thank you to all the students and parents who were able to join us for this special event. An extra special guest was Mr. Fox, a resident of the center. A longtime professional artist, Mr. Fox (yes, can you believe it?!) exhibited two watercolor paintings (one a fox!) alongside the students' work and also shared his portfolio of work. Students were thrilled to meet him and be able to ask questions about his artwork. Thank you to Ms. Merritt, Director of Activities, and the entire staff for helping us make this such a meaningful event. Congratulations to all the students whose artwork was selected to hang at West Creek Emergency Center and Barnes and Noble. Also a special congratulations to Emily G., Emma H. and Kathryn T. Their artwork is displayed at three VERY special exhibits - the HCPS School Board offices, HCPS Central Office and Suntrust Bank. (Only one piece from the entire school was chosen for each exhibit!)
March is a busy month in the Art Studio! We will celebrate Youth Art Month in MANY ways. Activities will include: special receptions at HCPS School Board offices, Suntrust Bank, and Our Lady of Hope Health Center; 4th graders will share artist information on the morning announcements; 5th graders will decorate the school's front doors and windows; a display with teacher's thoughts about the importance of Art; the library will feature a collection of Art and Music books; DAILY NFES Art Studio blog entries (did I say daily?!:); 4th grade-created artwork and stage sets for the their PTA program on March 18th; and teachers will meet to create their own art during a special "Art Afternoon!" Thank you for all you do to support creativity and the importance of the arts with your children. As a note, in past years there has been a Youth Art Month art exhibit in March at Virginia Center Commons. This year HCPS will start a new tradition by presenting a whole county Fine Arts Festival at Glen Allen High School in May. More details to come... We say goodbye to Ms. Susie Kim, VCU student teacher, who has been with us for the last eight weeks. She has done a fabulous job and has taught many wonderful lessons. We wish her continued success with her next placement in Chesterfield and want her to know that she will be missed! ************** Here is a message from Ms. Kim: Hello all! I can’t believe my time at Nuckols Farm is coming to an end. I have enjoyed my time with your little artists. What have the students been working on? After reading “The Kindness Quilt” by Nancy Wallace, Kindergarteners were asked to recreate acts of kindness. On red hearts, students drew a time when they were being kind and on white hearts, they water colored a time when someone else was being kind to them. They turned out super cute and will be displayed together in the hallway. First grade is finishing their Alliteration Illustrations. Inspired by “Animalia” by Graeme Base, students learned about and created their own alliterations along with color illustrations. Second grade completed clay coiled jars inspired by Ancient Egyptian canopic jars. For their lids, they were asked to create the head of the animal they most related to. In addition, they also created three charms that represented the reasons they choose that animal. Discussing aspirations, third grade created sock puppets representing what they would like to be when they grow up. During this lesson, students learned a new skill – sewing! After sewing on the eyes, nose, and mouth, students created uniforms and other related items using construction paper. Fourth grade is finishing up with self-portraits. After looking at portraits done by the contemporary artist, Kehinde Wiley, the students water colored their self- portraits that will later be attached to a patterned background, a unique style of Wiley’s work. The patterned background is created by a repeating a symbol that each student created. Lastly, fifth grade will be finishing up on narrative self- portraits, inspired by Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village.” In these self-portraits, students were asked to draw a side profile of themselves including symbols of their favorite hobbies or what they like, their family and important people in their lives, their home or community, and their favorite memory. All these are common issues that Marc Chagall represented in his famous painting. My experience at Nuckols Farm has been absolutely wonderful. The Nuckols Farm family and staff have been nothing but supportive and helpful. I hope the students have learned something new about art during my time “on the Farm!” Sincerely, Ms. Kim ************** Happy Youth Art Month! Mrs. Hampton WOW! We are certainly busy sharing our artwork with the community! Here are two recent highlights: West Creek Emergency Center (11 works) The artists at the West Creek reception! Barnes and Noble (Short Pump) Cafe (14 works) We have many special exhibits and events coming soon for YOUTH ART MONTH (March). Stay tuned!
1st graders created woven hearts for residents at Our Lady of Hope Health Center. Staff and residents were thrilled with the beautiful Valentines. Such a wonderful feeling for 1st graders to give back to our Nuckols Farm community! UPDATE: 2/24/14 We just received a very nice thank you and some pictures (see below) with residents holding the Valentines. Way to go 1st graders!
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