Visual Art Update for Friday September 17th, 19th, & 21st
Pray for peace!
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: Students created “All About ME Self-Portrait”. They explored artmaking ideas. The theme helps children to realize that every person is unique and special; every child’s thoughts and ideas are important and no one person is more or less important than another!
Kindergarten: Students worked collaboratively with eighth graders putting together their pinwheels.
First: Students learned about three dimensional space. They put together their pinwheel.
Second: Students used visual art materials to express an idea that reflects their own social and cultural identity.
Third: Students learned the elements and principles
of design while creating their three-dimensional pinwheels.
Fourth: Students generated ideas and employed a variety of strategies to solve a visual problem.
HSP: Students connected art with understanding how social, cultural and political factors affect what contemporary artists and designers create.
