ARTicls

The newsletter of the art department of the Phoenix Elementary School District

November 2014 Established August, 2003 Issue # 157

“Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made the commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s hard for

people to stop you.” – Bill Cosby

Bethune

Ms Susan Sanborn’s Bethune kindergarten classes made

flower images by hand tearing construction paper in order

to develop fine motor skills.

Monthly Haiku

A big fat turkey

Yams and hams and spams and lambs

Happy Thanksgiving

Also at Bethune both Ms Sanborn’s and Ms Stacy

Hedrick’s classes have been working like mad on

posters for the annual Lion’s ClubInternational

Peace Poster Contest. This year’s theme is, Peace,

Love, and Understanding.

Other

schools

entering

the

Lion’s Club International Peace Poster Contest are

Ms Rosa Wino’s Edison students, Ms Deb Stanger’s

Emerson classes, Ms Janet tucker’s classes at Heard,

and Mr. Rudy Begay’s Capitol kids. Good luck to all

of our very talented artists

Working Hard At Bethune

Currently there is a solo

school show of the work of Ms Stacy Hedrick’s

Bethune students in the Governing Board Room.

Check out the young art prodegies.

Board Room

Display

Peek into the Governing Board Room.

During the month of October the featured show will

be artwork by Ms Stacy Hedrick’s Bethune art

classes.

Happy Thanksgiving

The Art Team wishes a Happy Thanksgiving

to all of our Phoenix Elementary School District

friends. We are all beginning to think about our little

November respite and the upcoming holidays. It is

amazing that it is already here when it seems like

only yesterday we were battleing opressive heat and

deluges of rain that turned our streets into great

rivers. Amid all of the shopping, cooking, and the

friends and relatives, we hope everyone will reserve a

little time for themselves to reflect and think, not

about lesson plans or evaluations, but about the joy

we all see in a child who has benefitted from what we

do. The noblest work is that which is done for

children, They are the vanguard, and we are the

nurturers. They are our legacies.

Who is Wittier

than Whittier?

Ms Leah Mitchell’s 7/8 grade Whittier art

classes are working on

caricatures. They studied

facial features including

recessed and protruding

areas. They practiced

creating a feeling of the

third dimension by using

shadows and contrast as

well as color with pastels.

They have gotten some

amazing results as one

can see form these

images.

MADE in the Shade

Watch for our student made holiday ornaments which

wil be on sale at the MADE Art Boutique beginning

the day after Thanksgiving break.

Oh, What A Relief It Is

Currently there is a display of the work of

Mr. Rudy Begay’s Capitol students in the main

reception area at Emerson Court. They are releif

sculptures created after studying the art of

contemporary artist Frank Stella.

Youth Theater

The Valley Youth Theater featured an

exhibition of the work of 25 of our students during

the run of their musical, Narnia: The Lion, The

Witch, and the Wardrobe. Another exhibition will

cooincide with their next production, Winnie the

Pooh, which opens December 5.

A painting by Ms Rosa Wilno’s Edison student at The

Valley Youth Theater

Cubism

Ms Abby Christensen brought her art history expertise

to students at Faith North and Dunbar by introducing a

lesson on Cubism. The children saw pictures and

discussed the leading Cubists such as Pablo Picasso and

learned about their theories. The students did great

work with a very complicated concept. Using cut paper

and crayons the children in grades 1, 2, and 3 created

portraits in which several different angles of a face are

viewed at once.

Edison Wired Ms Rosa Wilno’s 76th grade Emerson Art classes are

woring on wire sculptures. They began by learning the

diference between 2-D and 3-D art and how an artist

uses the two concepts to achieve an artistic goal. The

students needed to show movement and action..

State Fair Winners form Ms Deb Stanger’s class walked away

with ribbons for the State Fair. The exhibiton is open to

schools from all of Arizona so this recognition ishuge.

Congratulations to the incredibly talented students and

to art Teacher Ms Deb Stanger.

Mural Shaw School has been awarded a mural by the

city of Phoenix. The students and art teacher Ms

Dominika Cosic will work with well known muralist

Mr. Hugo Medina to create the project. Light rail riders

will be treated to a view of the mural as will the

audiences of the Black Theater Troup. The design will

culminate in a community painting day in which

parents and neighbors can come to Shaw School on a

Saturday and finish off the mural. Congratulations to

Shaw School. Our students will showcase their talents to

the entire city. An unveiling ceremony is scheduled for

November 22. Details to follow.

A Tisket A Tasket Magnet Traditional 7th grade art classes under

the direction of MTS art teacher Ms Alisa

Spavronskaya have started a unit on basket coiling.

They have studied the techniques of Native Amerifcan

and compared them to modern fabric artists who also

use coiling. The students are creating their baskets

using yarn and rope.

How Did The Zebra Get Its Stripes?

You can find out from Ms Deb Stanger’s Emerson 1st

grade art classes who studied line by creating zebras

with white tempera paint and black markers. They also

included the line patterns in trees and even in the

construction paper border. The Zebras will be on

display in the governing board room during the month

of November.

Every day on the veldt the zebra awakes and knows it

has to be faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten,

and every day the lion awakes and knows it has to be

faster than the slowest zebra or it will starve. So

whether you are a zebra or a lion, you’d better start

your day running. – South African saying.

Jeremy Jackrabbit

Art classes in most of our schools are busy getting their

entries ready for the Jeremy The Jackrabbit Water

Conservation Contest sponsored by the Phoenix Public

Libraries. The deadline was October 1, so winners will be

annoounced soon. Entries msut include an image of Jeremy

Jackrabbit, desert scenes of scenes including Phoenix

landmarks. They must also include a specific grade level

theme that shows water conservation. The contest is open

to k-8 students. Good luck to all of our students.

One of Ms Janet Tucker’s Heard School 8th grade entries.

Jeremy The Jackrabbit posters from Ms Vicki Ross’s

Herrera kindergarten classes

Day Of The Dead…

and Music Day of the Dead ofrendas are being completed at

Herrera in Ms Vicki Ross’s classes. Students are getting

ready for the Day of The Dead Show at the Musical

Insrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd. PESD night at

the museum is November 7. There will be an artist’s

reception from 5:00-9:00 pm in one of the must unique

museums in the United States. All are welcome to attend

Admission for PESD employees is a special $8.

Autumn at Bethune

Ms Stacy Hedrick’s 7/8 Bethune art classes

drew some really terrific pumpkins . They first drew the

design with white glue on black paper. When it dried

they colored with pastels. The glue, the pastels and the

black paper combine for a very interesting illusion of

illumination.

Her grade 5 students did drawings of fish

using markers. They created a pattern in the fish and

the background. Part of the pattern included their

anmes as an integral aprt of the work.

ARTifacts: It is in their DNA, that’s why

The great Impressionist, Claude Monet developed

cataracts in his later years, but he was not deterred.

He never quit working. He just made bigger and

more brightlycolored paintings.

Mary Cassatt also developed cataracts along with

severe rheumatoid arthritis, but painted until she

drew her final breath.

Frida Kahlo, the great 20th

century Mexican painter

contracted polio as a child which caused severe

physical limitations. When she was 13 a bus on

which she was a passenger collided with a trolley car.

She suffered many broken bones and other permanent

injuries.

Edgar Degas suffered from debilitating arthritis

in his hands, but continued painting some of the

most sublime images of the Impressionist era with

a paint brush tied to his gnarled hand.

Contemporary artist Chuck Close suffered a spinal

artery collapse, which left him a quadrapalegic. He

continues to paint portraits that are as much as 15 feet

tall with the use of a small

lift for his wheel chair. He

has only slight movement

in his painting hand.

Chuck Close Self-portrait

Post Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was

born with several congenital health issues. At 13

he broke his left femur in a horse riding accident.

The next year he broke the other femur. A genetic

disorder, pycnodysostosis (also called, Toulouse-

Lautrec Syndrome) caused his legs to stop

growing leaving him an oddly proprotioned adult.

He suffered excrusiating pain his entire life.