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Hello all!
Throughout the upcoming year as we settle into our new space students will be exploring ways they can create gallery exhibitions that invite conversations on the importance of art in our culture and daily lives. Opportunities to experience art, both through creating and viewing it will enrich the school experience for our students.
This year, in addition to creating individual artworks art, students will be collaborating on many innovative projects that merge traditional art making methods with technology while adding to the lively school community felt throughout JHS. This spirit will be echoed in community service projects for the school including designing and painting a mural, photographing events, and curating mini art shows throughout the year in our AMAZING new gallery space. The Studio Gallery is attached to the newly renovated Art Room as part of the District’s Capital Project.
We are proud and excited to be part of the dramatic transformation and invite families to visit our art room to see our student work on display at Open House on October 16th. I also share the ongoing work of students right here on my blog. Of course, if you are in the building stop by and say hi! I have loved seeing all the teachers and students stopping in to see the new room and introduce themselves. It truly is a privilege to be the new full time art teacher at JHS working with the students of the community where I also grew up following in the footsteps of the amazing art educators who built up this art program with integrity before me. It is the exposure I was given to the arts here from a young age that I credit for guiding me in a direction that has always given me a voice and a goal. I was taught how to utilize art as a form of expression as a youth and now as an adult I use my role as an art educator to advocate for the need for a new generation of adolescents here to share their voice in a positive way through art. As a mom to a student starting kindergartner this year, I also have a new appreciation for how important what we do here that nothing the roughly ten years I spent attaining a higher education could have ever given me.
I look forward to getting to know everyone this year as we incorporate new ways of thinking about and creating art to the changing world our students live in. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, ideas or donations to the art room. I welcome your creative input!
All the best,
Ms. Kelly
Throughout the upcoming year as we settle into our new space students will be exploring ways they can create gallery exhibitions that invite conversations on the importance of art in our culture and daily lives. Opportunities to experience art, both through creating and viewing it will enrich the school experience for our students.
This year, in addition to creating individual artworks art, students will be collaborating on many innovative projects that merge traditional art making methods with technology while adding to the lively school community felt throughout JHS. This spirit will be echoed in community service projects for the school including designing and painting a mural, photographing events, and curating mini art shows throughout the year in our AMAZING new gallery space. The Studio Gallery is attached to the newly renovated Art Room as part of the District’s Capital Project.
We are proud and excited to be part of the dramatic transformation and invite families to visit our art room to see our student work on display at Open House on October 16th. I also share the ongoing work of students right here on my blog. Of course, if you are in the building stop by and say hi! I have loved seeing all the teachers and students stopping in to see the new room and introduce themselves. It truly is a privilege to be the new full time art teacher at JHS working with the students of the community where I also grew up following in the footsteps of the amazing art educators who built up this art program with integrity before me. It is the exposure I was given to the arts here from a young age that I credit for guiding me in a direction that has always given me a voice and a goal. I was taught how to utilize art as a form of expression as a youth and now as an adult I use my role as an art educator to advocate for the need for a new generation of adolescents here to share their voice in a positive way through art. As a mom to a student starting kindergartner this year, I also have a new appreciation for how important what we do here that nothing the roughly ten years I spent attaining a higher education could have ever given me.
I look forward to getting to know everyone this year as we incorporate new ways of thinking about and creating art to the changing world our students live in. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, ideas or donations to the art room. I welcome your creative input!
All the best,
Ms. Kelly
Last Board Before Break!!!
Students made paper feathers as we winded down the clock to Christmas break. See what they will become next for when students return in the new year!
The Bus...
When I told my Ceramics class this year that I had once made a massive ceramic schoolbus in college and painted it with nailpolish many MANY years ago they had just to see it. The display I put together for my students shows each of the main ceramic construction types. Can you spot them above?!