Friday, May 30, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Planting a Rainbow at Lincoln School

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Rizzi City

He created step by step his own colorful world, full of happy pictures, which spray a vision of happy lifetime and joy.
“Much of my work is about New York City, but above all it is about the people, about how they live.

New York is a multicultural society where people with all kinds of cultural backgrounds, religions and languages are living together in harmony.


In my work I want to portray the positive side of New York, I want to show how privileged we are to have such a rich and diverse society and that living together in such a community can be a lot of fun.”
James Rizzi video
Matisse Windsocks
In 1941 Matisse was diagnosed with cancer and, following surgery, he started using a wheelchair. However, Matisse’s extraordinary creativity was not be dampened for long. “Une seconde vie”, a second life, was what he called the last fourteen years of his life. Following an operation he found renewed and unexpected energies and the beautiful Russian-born assistant, Lydia Delectorskaya, to keep him company.
Vast in scale (though not always in size), lush and rigorous in color, his cutouts are among the most admired and influential works of Matisse’s entire career. By maneuvering scissors through prepared sheets of paper, he inaugurated a new phase of his career.
Michael Hall: Author Visit
On March 7, Michael Hall the author of My Heart is Like a Zoo and Perfect Square, visited our Treehouse and shared his book, It's an Orange Aardvark! To welcome him to our school, we read My Heart is Like a Zoo and Perfect Square and created some artwork inspired by his illustrations.
Kindergarten students used painted scraps of paper to cut and design environments for their animal pictures. Their children had to include at least one heart in their animal composition, just like Michael Hall's pictures. The created homes, forests, and other environments with additional scraps. Finally, they shared a narrative of their composition to help the viewer appreciate the context of their image.
Kindergarten students used painted scraps of paper to cut and design environments for their animal pictures. Their children had to include at least one heart in their animal composition, just like Michael Hall's pictures. The created homes, forests, and other environments with additional scraps. Finally, they shared a narrative of their composition to help the viewer appreciate the context of their image.
Jackson Pollock Birdies
Eva Crawford is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. She loves to work with mixed media and teaches high school art. Her 3 little birds, like the Bob Marley song, sit waiting on her doorstep!
Clay Fortune Cookies
Second grade students created beautiful pop art inspired fortune cookies. They were able to craft the extra large clay cookies after a few practice rounds making small fortune versions.
Students designed their cookies with a theme which they later applied to their cookie with sharpie and watercolors. Later, they designed take out containers to match the theme of their cookies.
Students designed their cookies with a theme which they later applied to their cookie with sharpie and watercolors. Later, they designed take out containers to match the theme of their cookies.
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