Urban Folk Art© is proud to present a show made up artwork from the first grade at P.S.8 in Brooklyn Heights in conjunction with an awesome organization Studio In a School. The work goes up this Friday the 5th and will be up through the 19th.
HERE'S A GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT THE SHOW FROM THE BROOKLYN BUGLE
The work looks awesome!
From the press release:
"1st
Grade classes from P.S.
8 in Brooklyn
Heights in collaboration with a not for profit teaching arts
organization, Studio in a School, present landscape paintings and drawings called
"How's the Weather?". First grade teachers, Carolyn
Saffady, Sjene Kendrick, Mackenzie Field, Sandy Long and Matthew Levy and
teaching artist, Belinda Blum, collaborated during this fourteen week
residency,
to connect students' science
(weather and cloud study) and literacy (vocabulary and writing) curriculum to
their art making experience. Through exploration students engaged in the
creative process while having a professional visual arts
experience.
Students
spent weeks exploring various types of mark making using drawing pencils and
paint brushes to advance their visual vocabulary. They expressed
different types of emotions such as funny, scary or calm by using various marks
and lines. They learned how to make brush strokes that described
different types of weather such as rain, snow or lightning as well as something
that could only be felt or heard like the wind, midst or thunder. Prior
to painting their landscapes students spent time learning how to mix primary
colors into secondary colors and how to make gray and other pastel colors mixed
with white. For most of the children, it was their first time
painting a landscape with a horizon line.
Urban
Folk Art© Curator Adam Suerte and the teachers think it’s an exciting idea to
have the students see their work in a real gallery setting. There will be a
signing book placed in the gallery so at the end of the shows run, the children
can see the positive feedback from people who have come into the gallery to see
their work."
"How's
the Weather?" will be up from May 4th through the 19th.
"It is raining. I used white and dark blue because it just stopped snowing and now it is raining. The top of the sky is very cloudy."
Emma
1-208
"My weather is stormy. I made the grays with black and white. I used more white on the bottom than the top so the bottom is lighter."
Maddox
1-208
" It is rainy and drizzly but also a little sunny. There is a mist coming down. I took white and yellow and put on thin strokes."
Sonia
1-210
Belinda Blum reviewing the project with the students
Students and parents checking out their work
