Visual Art Update for Friday September 10th, 12th, &14th

Visual Art Update for Friday September 10th, 12th, &14th

Imagine… millions of pinwheels spinning in the wind – pinwheels in the United States, Great Britain, South America, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, Africa, Europe and Asia; pinwheels all over the world! – big pinwheels, small pinwheels; pinwheels of all shapes and sizes – colorful pinwheels, decorated with drawings, paintings, collages, photographs – pinwheels with words of peace and harmony written on them – fields of pinwheels, pinwheels along roadsides, in schoolyards, in parks, pinwheels EVERYWHERE!

This is the Pinwheels for Peace project!
Please join us EVERY year on International Day of Peace, September 21st, as we create a visual public statement about peace!
http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/Pinwheels_for_Peace/home.html

Preschool:

Kindergarten: Students were experimenting with a variety of art materials and tools for drawing; Identifying, naming and describing the marks they make on the paper; Inventing strategies to translate what they see and imagine into a drawing.

First: Students identified described subject matter; Connecting what they see in works of art to their experiences.

Second: Students designed a pinwheel while using visual art materials to express an idea that reflects their own social or cultural identity.

Third: Students designed a pinwheel and collaborated with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme.

Fourth: Students designed a pinwheel and identified sources for artmaking ideas (e.g., self, environment).

Fifth: Students designed a pinwheel and focused attention on selected artworks to identify and pose questions about aesthetic qualities (e.g., sensory, organizational, emotional) in the works.

HSP: Students connected art with understanding how social, cultural and political factors affect what contemporary artists and designers create.