Northview Public Schools K-12 Visual Arts Program

Squeezing in one more painting before Summer! 4th graders at East make a sign for next year’s art shows.

♥️♥️♥️♥️ mic drop… summer can now begin!

A student reflection on our independent studio unit (7th grade boy):

I love how I was able to create something without stressing about it. I loved having the freedom to not have to make everything perfect. This is the feeling I really needed to have an opportunity to feel.

To me, being creative means simply doing things with little to no confines. It means making something entirely my own. It means being willing to make mistakes and to be free.

It is important for people to make art so they can develop their brain. The art of making art builds creative skills. Also, art allows people to focus on something. It increases their attention span. For me, art is a reminder that not, everything must be perfect.

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The art students at Northview High School had an amazing day in Chicago with our Coopersville High School art friends. Thank you, SAIC, for the college visit. Your art school is amazing, and the ability to see masterpieces in person at the Art Institute of Chicago is priceless.

Crossroads artists had a fun puppet play date with all of the DK and Kindergarteners at North Oakview today!

Each Crossroads artist made at least two puppets, one to gift to a “Kinder friend” and one or more for themselves to keep. They learned how to sew, develop patterns, problem solve and how to embellish their puppets to develop characters. (Check out these photos to find a puppet modeled after Mrs. Pitt and Mr. Garlets!)

Our Kinder buddies helped create puppet show stories that solved a problem and reminded the bigger kids of the best parts of playtime- using their imaginations!

We were extra fortunate to have lovely weather!

Congratulations to Evie Paradowski, 7th grader! Her work was selected by Crossroads staff as the first winner of “The Creative Cup”.

Each week for four weeks, all students at Crossroads (whether in art or not) are invited to submit a creative work in response to a prompt. The only limitation is that the work must fit a 4” x6” size. (This is just something fun I wanted to do to get kids excited about creating before we head out for summer break!)

The winners each week win a $25 Amazon gift card and a new professional quality sketchbook from Mrs.Buys

Next weeks theme (due to me by end of school dayThursday) is “man made vs. nature”.

Get creative Crossroads!!!

The puppet wedding that happened in art class this morning (of course) had all the drama. So much drama. 🤣

It’s pretty awesome to have a job where you can laugh and create with teens all day.

Check out the newest painting created by East Oakview’s Mural group. These 4th graders donated their lunch and recess time to beautify the DK classroom’s door. Both the stars and fluffy unicorn are covered in glitter because of their teacher’s love of sparkles!

Congratulations to Northview senior Mi'Angel Harris whose piece ...BLOOM."" won 2nd Place in the Congressional Art Competition!

Her work will hang in Representative Hillary Scholten's office for the next year.

Please also congratulate our WildCat artists who also had work selected for the Congressional Competition.

Thank you to all who attended Northview’s District Art Show last night! We were able to use this new space thanks to the generous funding from Northview Education Foundation to purchase an additional 4 display panels to show off the talent of Northview’s Artists.