NEW ART CLASSES in Carroll Gardens
“All’ Aperto”! “En Pleine Air”! “OUTDOORS”!

Claude Monet Irises

NEW: ART CLASSES forming in the Transit Garden in Carroll Gardens

Adults, Children and Families!

Where: The lovely Transit Garden at the Corner of Smith Streets and Second Place in Carroll Gardens.

Who: For Would Be Artists of All Ages and taught by Triada Samaras*

Classes:

Adults: Drawing and Pastels Classes using the flowers, shrubs and trees in the garden as our inspiration. $25.00 per 90 min class. Sign-up for a minimum of four. (Art supplies to be purchased by you). Parents: You may bring your child to class to draw with you for the reduced rate of $10.00 per child!

Children ART/SCIENCE class (Ages 3-5) and (Ages 6-9): $20.00 per 45 min. class. Siblings 12.00. Sign up for a minimum of four. ($15.00 materials fee). This is a drop class. Parents or another adult MUST attend with a three year olds however.

Times:
Adults: 90 min. classes will be offered twice a week beginning June 21, 2009. Sundays 10:15 -11:45 and Thursdays 6:30-8:00.

Children (ages 3-5) 45 min. classes will be offered Sundays at 12:00 and at 1:00 and will begin on June 21, 2009. Children (ages 6-9) TBA.

Why: Because making art in the open Brooklyn air will feed your heart and soul!

*Bio: Triada Samaras is a visual artist and poet who lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn for the past 15 years. She holds a Diploma and “Fifth Year Certificate” in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and her Masters Degree in Art and Art Education from Teachers College/Columbia University. Triada has taught students of all ages for the past 17 years in and around the Metro NYC area. She has published an article** on wood sculpture for young children in the NAEYC Journal/ National Association for the Education of Young Children. Her work with young children in the arts has also been cited*** in Creative Thinking and Arts-based Learning. Triada homeschooled her two sons for 11 years and through high school.

She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Kean University, Union, NJ, and an Adjunct Professor of Art and Art Education at William Paterson, Wayne, NJ. Triada recently exhibited her art work at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and at the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery at Kean University. For more info, contact her at: triadasamaras@gmail.com or cell 917-558-6157


**”Young Children Try, Try Again Using Wood, Glue and Words to Enhance Learning” in Spotlight on Young Children in the Creative Arts, NAEYC, 2005.

*** Creative Thinking and Arts-based Learning/ Preschool Through Fourth Grade by J.P. Isenberg and M.R. Jalongo, Pearson, 2006.

Bookmaking ideas!

Here is an early childhood website for a very specific bookmaking activity (a book about eggs for grdes1/2) with complete instructions. What I like about it this site that it gives any early childhood teacher many skills that he/she can transfer for use in a later book of one's own design for any age child. I am not a huge fan of all the teacher-made illustrations however!

http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/popupbooks.html#eggs%20books

"Curriculum Laboratory"

"Teaching Ideas Showcase: Toy and Movable (Pop-Up) Books...Two Cross Curricular Crafts (Egg Pop-Up Book and Small Crawling and Flying Animals Pop-Up Cards)"

Here is a pdf with extensive instruction for each page of the book. There are 24 pages in total.

http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/popuphos.pdf

And here is a simple, on-line book cover making site that your students can use themselves to make a cover for their books that teachrs print-out in black and white.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/bookcover/

For many more ideas relating to the Torn Paper Collage lesson for young children,

this wonderful website has numerous collage examples as well as info

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/collage.html

From there, I found a White on White Exhibition which relates so much to the torn white paper collage lesson! See:

http://collagemuseum.com/white-on-white/index.html

for the beauty and subtlety of WHITE.


...
collageart.org DEDICATED TO THE ART OF COLLAGE http://www.collageart.org/

"...the principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the twentieth century." -- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
''l'art pour l'art.'' -- Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830) also attributed to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)

Teachers Making Prints!

We made a variety of prints tonight:

• Collgraphs with glue and various relief pieces
• Rubbings from the backs of tiles, shoes, handbags, phones, etc.
• Monoprints with yarn dipped in paint
• Monoprints using bathroom tiles from Home Depot (only 16 cents a piece) and tempera paint
• Engravings using foam board and toothpicks and other tools to carve out the surface
• We tried to create a serigraph with recycled lace and shelving fabric but were not completely successful!

Most of our prints were printed on recycled tissue paper from Crate and Barrel.

Images will be here soon........just as soon as "J" sends them from her digital camera!

Vocabulary: brayer; ink; relief print; collograph; monoprint; serigraph


Some Useful Printmaking Links (Click once):


"Printmaking 101"

http://www.kinderart.com/printmaking/print101.shtml

"Printmaking 102"

http://www.kinderart.com/printmaking/print102.shtml

"Styrofoam (Engraved) Printing"
http://www.kinderart.com/printmaking/styro.shtml

"Entire Index of Printmaking Techniques"
http://www.kinderart.com/printmaking/index.html

Fish Prints: ("GYOTAKU" Fish prints:
http://freshaquarium.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.conknet.com/~r_rich/gyotaku.htm

http://www.reeldreamsfishprints.com/

http://freshaquarium.about.com/library/weekly/aa062899a.htm

Early Childhood Teachers Invent with Recycling Materials!

On 2-17-2009 at William Paterson University in the Creative Arts and Children's Literature Class we read Leonardo and the Flying Boy/A Story About Leonardo da Vinci by Laurence Anholt. Next we sorted many different types of recycling materials (plastic, wire, masking tape, packaging, fabric, plastic lids, etc.) onto a large table and the students chose whatever appealed to them. They added these materials to the ones they had already collected from home. The goal was to make an invention (a contraption) with at least one part that "moved". Some students worked collaboratively and others alone.

More books about Recycling and Art:
Beautiful Stuff: Learning with Found Materials by Cathy Weisman Topal and Lella Gandini; Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams; Shapes by Philip Yenawine; Round and Round by Tana Hoban; Beautiful Junk by Jon Madian; Wire Sculpture and Other Construction by Gerald F. Brommer

Other Recycling Materials: Twisteez http://www.twisteez.com/
Pipe Cleaners; Styrofoam (several kinds: the packaging supply type works best)

Vocabulary Words: Attach; glue; tape; twist; bend; wire; plastic; receycle; re-use; conserve; invent; create; imagine; kinetic sculpture; found object sculpture


"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known." (Loris Malaguzzi (20th century), Italian early education specialist. Quoted in The Hundred Languages of Children, ch. 3, by Carolyn Edwards (1993).)

Artists To Look At: Alexander Calder's Circus; Jean Tinguely's Kinetic Sculpture; Willie Cole's Found Object Sculpture

Willie Cole Made in the Phillipinnes 1993 Shoes, Pvc pipe 40x38x38 "

Teachers Painting!

On 2/11/2009, at William Paterson University in our Creativity and Play Class, we read Art Dog by Thacher Hurd. Next, we worked with black tempera first, on large white butcher block paper, exploring the many marks created by various tools from Home Depot, the classroom and elsewhere. Next we worked wet into wet paint using white tempera as our background then working into it with very small brushes. We talked about clouds and the sky as a point of departure. We also experimented with postive/negative space using Painter's Tape and tempera paint applied with brayers to the construction paper. Finally we created our own paint with 1/2 shaving cream; 1/2 Elmer's White All Purpose Glue, and food coloring and tried applying it with make-shift palette knives.

The Elements of Art: Line; Color; Texture: Shape: Form; Space: Value.

Other books on Paint and Painting: The Artist by John Bianchi; The Painter Who Loved Chickens by Olivier Dunrea; Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Leonni; I Spy Two Eyes by Mickelthwait; Discover Great Paintings by Lucy Mickelthwait; Camille and the Sunflowers by Lawrence Anholt; The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater; The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola; Tye May and the Magic Brush by Molly Garrett Bang; Experience and Art/Teaching Children to Paint by Nancy R. Smith


Some Painting Words:
Drip; Stain; Glide; Slide; Brushstroke; Thin Line; Thick Line; Cover; Composition; Area; Imagine; Create; Smudge; Center; Top; Bottom; Horizontal; Diagonal; Repetition; Pattern; Warm Colors; Cool Colors; Tints; Tones; Value

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach By Elliot Eisner

1) The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2) The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3) The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4) The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5) The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6) The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7) The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8) The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9) The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10) The arts ’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. Copyright Information | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Copyright © 2007 National Art Education Association. All rights reserved.

Take A Look