Let the new year begin!

Hello Friends and Families of Holy Family School!

I am pleased to be with you all once again for another exciting year at Holy Family School. This being my third year teaching at Holy Family, it is once again another year filled new adventures. The art program is growing steadily .... and the students are responding amazingly!

I'd like to start by sharing with you a few new additions to the Holy Family School Art Program:

1. Hyde Park Art Center
    Thanks to a gracious donor, HFS has been blessed with a teaching artist. Meaghan Burritt is the new teaching artist at HFS for the 7th grade class. She visits us once a week and brings with her years of experience! We look forward to sharing the work created together. Currently the students are creating self-portrait weavings. They will be revealed the week of October 16th!

2. The First Ever Holy Family Art Exhibition
    David Rhodes and myself have been working hard since the spring of 2012 with all the students of HFS to compile a wide variety of artwork. The ultimate goal was to feature the work at an art exhibition featuring all HFS student work. That day is quickly approaching. The students have had 5 workshops and we have had tons of artwork to sort through and select to feature. We are pleased to announce that October 20th will be the date of our exhibition. 12-3 at the Starbucks on 1245 W Fullerton will be the gracious hosts of our event. Keep posted for more details.

Well, last but not least, I'd like to share with you a few of our artists of the week!!! Please enjoy!!!

                                1st Grade : Study of Color : Primary Colors = Secondary Colors

Maliah Lucas

Corey Moses Jr. 

2nd Grade : Study of Color : How does color change your favorite place? 

Keari Neeley - Gray 

Keari Neeley - Color 

Kindergarten : Study of Expressing Emotion : How did you feel on your first day of school? 

Please enjoy some photos of HFS students hard at work!!!

Lawrence Henderson, Alasia Campbell - Sharing their photos for the weaving project

Which to use? (7th)

Measuring our warps and wefts (7th)

Kindergarteners hard at work building their fine motor skills!

Carnival of the Animals

Hello!!

1st Grade has been my prized symphony class all year. Not only did they study the ins and outs of Beethoven's 6th Symphony, they just recently finished studying Camille's "Carnival of the Animals." We acted out the animal parts, talked about which instruments the composer chose to represent the animal he was trying to portray, the melody lines, the tempo, and the dynamic levels. To take it another step further, we created art work while listening to specific movements of the symphony.

Please enjoy photos of the tortoise, the chicken, and the fish!!

Willie Simmons

Andre Miller 

Joseph Tucker 

True Artists!!!!!

Artist In Residence

Calling all artists!!!!

We have been blessed by the powers from above, and into our laps has fallen a local artist who wishes to offer his skills to the students of Holy Family School. David Rhodes, photographer, hosted 3 art workshops, in cooperation with myself, for the students of HFS. We will be hosting more workshops once the 2012-2013 school year rolls around. The final artwork will be framed and showcased at an art exhibition, that will be hosted by the artists themselves! It will be a fundraiser for the art program at Holy Family School. We are so thrilled to be experiencing such wonderful community support!

Please enjoy some inside shots!

Birttny Lewis - 3

Jaliyah Tubbs -1

Heaven Preston -1

India Culpepper - 2 

Q4 : All New Topics !!!

Hello Students and Parents !!!

Q4 is here, holy cow :-) We are so close to being finished with the 2011 -2012 school year. What a journy our students have taken over the year. I'd like to just provide a list of the topics your children will be learning about during their time in art during the 4th Quarter.

K - Spring Time Contrstuction
1 - People and the things the do
2 - Sculpture
3/4 - Art History
5- Set Desigining
6/7 - Editorial Cartooning, Logo Making, Poster Designing, Mask Making, and Weaving
8 - Painting

Here is a look at some artwork done this quarter so far!

3rd Grade - Marc Chagall inspired Dream Drawings

"Once upon a time there was a lady named Paris who had a dream that it would be peacful on her block and she could listen to her favorite song, "Love on Top." Then there was a snake that dreamed about catching a purple mouse and having it for dinner" - Aniya Watts 3rd

"Once upon a time there was a man who loved the bulls. He went to a Bulls game and on his way home he saw a parot. It was in a tree, dreaming about the beach and going to his nest to find grapes." - Kelis Johnson 3rd Grade

" There once was an Indian who had some friends who loved to swim in a pool. the friends had a

 dog called kior and everybody played with Dior. One day the Indian and his friends saw a snake. They were all scared so they ran from the snake, laughing." - Marcellous Tredwell 3rd Grade

Art and Immigration

7th Grade Students : Art and Immigration

Our lesson today is designed for us to experience some stories of immigration that took place in America. We will be integrating our lesson into your social studies, where you are looking at citizenship and immigration. For this lesson though, you need to access this interactive website :

http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/logcabin.html

Please use this website to answer the questions on your worksheet.

We will be working aloud together in groups of two.

Have fun!
Ms. Schillinger

Q3 : Art History : Unit 1 - Middle Ages

** Slide show coming soon!!!

WK 16 : Artists of the Week

Hello Students and Parents :

I hope you all enjoyed your winter break, and share memories with family and friends. I would like to send a shout out to the students of the week from week 16, before we went on break.



Raven Stallworth - 3 : Pose and Posture w/ Pencil

Aniya Watts - 3 : Pose and Posture w/ Pencil

Jailen Johnson - 1 : Pattern

Courtney Kimbrell - 1 : Pattern

Wyzdom Gary - 1 : Pattern

Joseph Tucker - 1 : Collage w/ Shapes

Makayla Rockford - K : Outline w/ Pencil and Coloring

Andre Miller - 1 : Collage w/ Shapes