10/13/2026
🎨🎃 **7TH GRADE ART IN ACTION!** 🎃🎨
7th grade students have been learning about Yayoi Kusama, a famous Japanese artist. 🇯🇵 Kusama was known as the “princess of polka dots” . She created many magnificent sculptures, paintings, and installations of pumpkins with polka dots all over them. 🎃
🖼️ Students learned about the artist, and examined/ critiqued many examples of her art. The students discussed how the use of pattern, contrast, and movement within art can create a masterful work of art made with simple subjects such as polka dots and pumpkins. 🎨✨
🎃 Today, students created their own pumpkin sculptures inspired by Kusama. Students observed and practiced the process of creating sculptures by placing glue covered strips of newspaper over a form/ armature. This process is called paper mache. 📰✂️
🌈 Next, the students will paint their Kusama inspired masterpieces with high contrasting colors, and many polka dots like the great Yayoi Kusama once did. 🔴🎃🎨
We can’t wait to see these masterpieces come to life! 👏✨
