Another VSA Festival is in the books! This year 8 classes joined in on our takeover of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens! The weather was just the right temperature and with four tour groups, we felt like we owned the place!
A HUGE thank you to the Cummer for hosting our students and all of the thousands of students around Jacksonville!! We had a BLAST!!
Enjoy this gallery of pictures from our magical day of ART!
We have a show currently on display at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens!! The show features the work from our VSA Artist-in-Residence program with Mrs. Huffman and Ms. Hill’s homerooms. We worked with Heather Heywood, an amazing art teacher for this project! Enjoy the pictures of the opening reception and make time to go by and see the students’ work on display until June 1st!
Up next: the VSA Festival!!! One of our favorite events of the year!!
Fantastic student work on display!
Koi ponds by the students in Ms. Hill’s homeroom
Koi ponds from Mrs. Huffman’s homeroom
A few walls of space for our students’ work…
Solar System pieces from students in Ms. Hill’s homeroom
Collaborative pieces created with our visiting artist, Liz!
Heather and Liz, our Artist-in-Residence and Guest Artist for this amazing program!
A few more walls of space featuring art from Alden Road and Palm Avenue student artists
We are in the middle of an exciting project with the VSA and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens! We have a guest artist working with Ms. Hill and Mrs. Huffman’s homeroom classes! Ms. Hill’s homeroom works with Ms. Heather (our guest artist) in the art classroom, so naturally we have been taking lots of pictures to share! Enjoy the pictures of our adventure so far and be on the lookout for the art show displaying these piece in a couple of weeks!
Koi Pond Art!
Another koi pond-so many textures and colors!
A third koi pond
The artists working on creating planets for a Solar System Art piece.
Steve smiling for the camera while his classmates are hard at work. 🙂
Our most recent adventure: Solar System Art pieces! In the foreground a student is sponge painting her outer space background.
This student just finished splatter painting her Solar System Art piece. Beautiful!
One of the completed pieces.
Another student artist adding final touches to his piece.
Stay tuned for more pictures to come soon! We have three more classes until the big show opens on May 5th!
Hello!! Sorry for the gap in posts!
We have been wildly busy creating art of all kinds and working with a guest artist in the classroom! Before you get a peek at the artwork we’ve been creating, we wanted to show you a few pictures from our school’s spring beautification day!! This past Friday, April 10th we rolled up our sleeves and got to work outside the classroom, weeding and replanting our classroom flower bed!
Enjoy the pictures and come by to see our new and improved school grounds!!
Early morning weed pulling…note the overgrown flower bed!
Mimi isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty!
Teamwork makes the dream work!
Notice the huge pile of weeds behind Eric!
Showing off those dirt covered/hard working hands!
We’re getting there…pull by pull
Karen and Amber working together to pull the last few weeds
Our landscape team coming to the rescue with some gardening tools!
A crew of helpers arrived!
Brandon leading the team!
No dirt left unturned….
Mimi supervising the crew
She’s not sure about all that dirt yet…
Cameron trying his hand at some gardening work…
Courtney sifting the dirt through the screen table
Final touches on the mulch layer
And done!
We can’t wait to watch these ferns grow!
We have one more art show reception scheduled for this spring and it is TOMORROW NIGHT!!! Tomorrow: Wednesday, February 11th at 6:30 we will reveal one final show (that we know of) at the South Mandarin Branch Library at 12125 San Jose Blvd!
We hope you can join us for this exciting collection! This show features a variety of projects from our program including some Aboriginal Art, New Years Fireworks Cityscapes, Pop Art, and various other pieces!
See you tomorrow evening…oh and here’s a preview 🙂
A view of one side of our display
A closer look at a panel including a new years art piece, two Aboriginal animals, and two ink and watercolor pieces
A closer view of another panel…
A variety of pieces from our class
Full side of a display
A view of some Pop Art Wheelchair paintings on the other side of the display…
Pop Art Wheelchair art piece from Fall 2014
The view from behind the circulation desk 🙂
Alden Road Visual Arts 