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Thanks to all Hilton Artists

 

 

Working together with Hilton students and parent volunteers art projects were auctioned at Family Bingo Night, on Feb. 16th.  Thanks to all the artists that contributed their skills and time to create the beautiful pieces that were auctioned to give back to Hilton School. Every student at Hilton contributed to the projects and I am so proud of their hard work and so glad that they were able to experience and learn that artists can and do often use their talents and skills to uplift and give back to their community!  Way to go Hilton artists!

 

 

 

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Mrs. Cuy's class quilt
Mrs. Cuy’s class quilt
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Mrs. Graham's class ceramic tile wall hanging
Mrs. Graham’s class ceramic tile wall hanging
Mrs. Haluch class ceramic tile wall hanging
Mrs. Haluch class ceramic tile wall hanging
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Mrs. Berchtold's class giant planter
Mrs. Berchtold’s class giant planter

Mrs. Moroney's class plate
Mrs. Moroney’s class plate
Mrs. Gagne's class plate
Mrs. Gagne’s class plate
Mrs. Duke's class quilt
Mrs. Duke’s class quilt

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Mrs. Garrison's class
Mrs. Garrison’s class
Mrs. Gagne's class
Mrs. Gagne’s class
Mrs. Ciolek's AM class
Mrs. Ciolek’s AM class

Mrs. Ciolek's PM Kinders
Mrs. Ciolek’s PM Kinders
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Mrs. Berchtold's class project
Mrs. Berchtold’s class project
Mrs. Aufmuth's class mirror
Mrs. Aufmuth’s class mirror
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Mrs. Duke's class quilt
Mrs. Duke’s class quilt
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proud artists
proud artists
Mrs. Haluch's class quilt
Mrs. Haluch’s class quilt

Art Auction Projects

3rd grade tile for the framed mirrors

Students in grades K-3 have been busily creating art projects that will be up for auction at Hilton’s Family Bingo night-for more information about the event see Hilton PSO’s website http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e3a8hohf6e4347be&llr=trnm69dab.

painting the robot details

another tile

3rd graders voted on a theme, then painted tiles that will be used to frame mirrors and a chalkboard.  2nd graders have reclaimed furniture and decorated each with painted images.  Each 1st grade student created a square for a class quilt.  Kindergarten students gave their thumbprints for class ceramics bowls…..

Mrs. Gagne's class ceramic bowl-before firing

Mrs. Ciolek's am class

Mrs. Ciolek's pm class

2nd graders painting their Bee Bench

 

more pictures to come as we finish up!

1st Grade Shapes

Georgia O'Keeffe

nam june paik

After exploring lines, 1st graders have moved on to studying shapes.  We are finding the different ways that artists use shapes to create works of art in a unique way.  We have been inspired by two artists that worked in America, Georgia O’Keeffe and Nam June Paik. 

 O’Keeffe uses natural shapes to depict nature.  She paints nature larger than life to highlight the details and make you pay attention.  We chose leaves from a variety of trees, as a beautiful autumn inspiration. 

a sasafras tree leaf shape

Each student looked at their leaf and drew the beautiful, natural shape really big!  Using a magnifying class, we looked for and drew all the lines and details on the inside of their leaf.  To show the amazing color of fall leaves we oil pasteled the lines, and used watercolors to paint in the spaces, over the oil pastels.  Gorgeous colors and shapes! 

Look for our “O’Keeffe Leaf” hanging in the halls of Highland and Hilton!

We are now investigating the “Father of Video Art,” Nam June Paik.  Paik was born in Korea, and moved to the US to become an artist.  Paik uses TVs, video, technology to make all kinds of sculpture; our favorite is his robots.    We discovered many geometric shapes in his sculpture, circles, squares, rectangles, triangles!  We are exploring 2-D vs. 3-D shapes to build our own robots.  

We have found many ways that Nam June is opposite from Georgia: Nam June is a boy/Georgia is a girl, Georgia was born in America/Nam June in Korea, Georgia paints nature/Nam June uses machines, Nam June’s work is 3-D/Georgia’s is 2-D, Georgia uses natural shapes/Nam June uses geometric shapes.  “They are different but they are the same, they are both great artists!”

We learned to fold a 2-D rectangle into a 3-D box, to make a pretend TV…then glued it to our paper.  We then explored how to fold, curl, roll, bend, and glue a variety of geometric shapes to make them pop-out.  We used these shapes to build the body of our robots, than used gadgets to print the background.  Check out our geometric, 2-D and 3-D Robots-complete with pretend TVs!

1st Grade Lines

1st Grade art students have just completed a unit studying the various qualities of lines used in art works…exploring many ways to make lines and different media to make them with. 1st graders drew lines, made 3-D paper lines, and found lines in a variety of materials to decorate Line Hats. They thought of many words to decribe different lines and the feelings lines can express.
Then we watched a movie made in 1952 of the famous American painter Jackson Pollack creating one his action paintings. In response kids moved around the art room using different colors and objects to create action paintings with spontaneous lines.