Art Club Mural

MST Art Club and our enrichment group "Adventures in Art" made a mixed media mural based on Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night." The kids had a great time working together to create their own "MST Starry Night" version.

Artist Trading Cards

5th and 6th Grade MST Artists made Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and one of their very first assignments of the year. We discussed layering different materials, and trying new ways of handling every day materials to make mixed media collages.

 

The results were one of a kind! These cards were such a success, we traded them with another Elementary school in Ft. Worth. Each student received a different card from an unknown artist. You can read more about their experiences on our blog's "Artist Trading Card" page. 

4th Grade Gets Splattered!

Our 4th Grade winners of the MST Box Tops for Education Contest received the Famous Rock Star Artist Trophy and a special art project. Students will have the chance to explore the life and work of Jackson Pollock, and create a collaborative splatter paint mural to be displayed in school. Pictures of our process will be displayed below:

Cottonwood Arts Festival

Cottonwood is this weekend!

Cottonwood Park, Richardson TX

October 2-3, 2010
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Rick Loudermilk is the Featured Artist

Cottonwood Arts Festival

Cottonwood Arts Festival
May 1-2 2010
FREE
Artist Charles Rice will be visiting MST soon!

       ART NIGHT was a blast!.  Thank you parents, teacher, and students for making it a night to remember.  We raised *drum roll please* $495.63 for the MST Art Department. Congratulations to all that helped to make it a success.  A special thanks to our art student teacher Ms. Fitz as well as the two high guys for working on the pottery wheels with the kids.  We were able to throw down $100 for Houses for Haiti a donation, I am very please to make.    BIG THANKS! Mrs. van Hamersveld-Foster.

MST ART NIGHT 2010

MST ART NIGHT
APRIL 22nd
6:30-8:00pm
Join friends and family for a night of art creation and appreciation.  There will be several stations of make and take art projects, Art Auction, Art Night t-shirts for sale, and the debut of the first Empty Bowl Project student documentary!  Hope to see you  soon.

Howtoons: Seeing the Future

Our 5th grade artists are connecting laugauge with art through visual story telling.  We have studied the industries that involve visual communication such as comic novels, animation, design, movies. After reading the comic "Seeing the Future"  students began to illustrate their own comic stip to include a title frame and action frames.  Their story could be fictional, historical, or personal. 

Resources: Teaching Comics, Understanding Comics

Aldea Weaving from aldea on Vimeo.

Through the unit Recycle, Reuse, and Renew: 3rd grade artists are learning to create functional items from reuseable household materials.  In their first lesson students created a handmade wallet from recycle magazine paper and duct tape.  We discussed the importance of measuring, folding, and craftsmanship.  The second lesson will teach the students to create a woven cloth from yarn, string, pipe cleaners, plastic baggies, sticks, lace, felt, etc.  By weving these patterns from a variety of materials, students will increase their dexterity and fine motor skils. What can you make from recycled materials?

Marie's Mandala from Marie Camille on Vimeo.
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle," a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself--a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.


Describing both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community. -http://www.mandalaproject.org/What/Index.html


6th grade artists are beginning to work on their own sacred circles to describe their personal beliefs, traits, and characteristics.

SmArt Games

Click here to link to SmART Games binder created by Craig Roland for a workshop using  AirSlates and SmartBoards in the art classroom. Explore these art websites and increase your artistic knowledge.

Art and Technology

Our 4th-6th graders have just recieved educational laptops!  This site is created for the students to gain access to art resources, games, and information on the world wide web.  Students will have the ablity to post and comment on MST student artworks as well as famous artist's work around the world.  Through this blog students, teachers, and parents will be able to enter the virtal MST art studio anytime.  As the art teacher, I hope to engage and inspire MST students' art in a new technological way.  Let the artistic blogging begin!
             -Mrs.van Hamersveld-Foster