Belding Art For All Program

We are turning our school into an art gallery! Come see over 1,000 student artworks at Art-O-Rama Belding Art Showcase!! Our art teachers Miss Kat and Ms. Sterenberg will be strolling around our galleries. Also we will have a printmaking make-n-take, zen coloring corner with custom coloring booklets and chalk drawing in front of the school. Hope you can make it!

Grades 4-8 Art For All Update!
Week 4: It was Day of the Dead week and the art lessons centered around this Mexican holiday. They leaned about point perspective and drew Monarch butterflies or sugar skulls.
Week 5:: The students started a weaving unit. They learned the basics of weaving with paper.
Week 6: The weaving unit progressed with a lesson about making a loom and how to set up weaving with yarn.

PreK-3 Art For All Update!

Week 4: The students learned about surrealism. They made a collage inspired by Salvador Dali's "Meditative Rose" painting.
Week 5: The students learned about printmaking. They made a collage inspired by Japanese artist Hokusai.
Week 6: The students learned about architect Antoni Saudi's sculpture called "El Drac" or The Dragon. The students created their version of the sculpture.
Also we have added new art galleries in the stairwells called
"Art Cove North" and "Art Cove South". If you are in the building on Monday for parent/teacher conferences, check them out!

We now have gallery walls on all 3 floors of the school! We believe this is something special!

Here’s what’s up in the gallery world:

1st Floor: Kinder Room 106 Aaron Douglas inspired collages and a few 1st Grade Room 109 Piet Mondrian inspired sculptures.

2nd Floor: 6th Room 312 Color Wheel Pumpkins

3rd Floor: 7th & 8th Color Wheel Lesson

8th Grade/Room 306 Artists love the color wheel! Check out their eye pleasing art in the photos below! OR if you are at the school, head up to the 3rd floor and view their gallery wall thru Friday.

Grades PreK-3 Art For All Update! We are in our 3rd week of art instruction already. Week 1 the students celebrated Hispanic Heritage month with a mixed media collage inspired by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Week 2 the artists learned about color value to create an Aaron Douglas inspired collage. The students explored how adding black or white to a color gives it value. Week 3 (this week) is clay week! Artists will create a 3D clay version of Piet Mondrian's famous "Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow".
We will be featuring PreK-3 artwork on a bulletin board on the 1st floor throughout the Art For All program. This week is PreK Room 104 and 110.

Grades 4-8 Art For All Update!
We are in our 3rd week of art instruction already! Week 1 had the students working on "getting to know you" drawings that included their names and favorite things. Week 2 was "Rainbow Week". Students learned about the color wheel and created clay rainbows or painted personalized color wheels. Week 3 students are finishing up the Rainbow projects and their "getting to know you projects". We will be displaying Grades 4-8 projects on floors 2 & 3 starting tomorrow.

Ms. Sterenberg, our Grade 4-8 art teacher, is wondering if anyone has an empty laundry detergent dispenser or unwanted plastic carafe with valve? It would live on the art cart and would be used for fresh water when painting. We like the idea of recycling an unwanted item for use in the classroom and wanted to check this forum before we go purchase one. Thanks!

We are excited to start classes next week. We wanted to close out Hispanic Heritage Month celebrating Frida Kahlo. Here is some background information and a little bit about the project.

Week of Oct. 10: PreK-3rd Artists will create a portrait of Frida Kahlo using oil pastels, paint, cut paper collage and model magic. Firda Kahlo was famous for her colorful self-portraits that celebrated indigenous Mexican culture.

The Belding Art For All Program begins next week!

Grades PreK-3 Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays for 10 weeks
Grades 4-8 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays for 10 weeks