Art Project – Studying Eric Carle
There are several exciting projects developing in the art department! The children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle is the first of 12 artists we’ll be studying this year. He loves color and uses his painted and textured color sheets to create collages for his books. Students in kindergarten through second grade are learning the basics of primary colors and mixing secondary colors. The upper grades have painted their own color sheets, like Carle, which we will use to create our own children’s book based on Carle’s work. Each class is working on a page featuring plants and animals found in our Orlando Junior Academy garden. We plan to unveil our collaboration during Art in the Garden in November! Another fun project that we will have on display at our art show during the Art in the Garden event is a Temperance Quilt. This project, during National Red Ribbon Week, focuses on the art principle of pattern and on American cultural experiences. It will give students another avenue to discuss and work through temperance issues. A third project to look forward to is inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. They are environmental artists who have installed artwork on a large scale throughout the world. Some of their notable projects have included the saffron colored fabric Gates in New York’s Central Park, and the Biscayne Bay, Florida Islands that were skirted in hot pink canvas. On a much smaller scale, I’m challenging our OJA artists to work in teams to come up with proposals for some very modern environmental art of which the the winning proposal will be installed for a short period of time in our school garden.
Look for the following OJA artists whose winning work will be represented in the soon to be published Celebrating Art book!
Maurie Andino, Leif Bromme, Britney Jean Charles, Leilani Farfan, Allison Hickham and Garren Miler. Congratulations!