Kindergarten Still-life drawings

Mary - Ms. Ambrose kindergarten class

Kyan - Ms. Ambrose kindergarten class

Wildcat Student Artists!

So far, so good. Tropical rainforest birds - faux Amate Bark paintings

Keith & Octavious analyzing postcard art productions using a Venn diagram

Kehinde Wiley project

Travis Warmack with his completed project

Dedrick Baldwin sketching a copy of the portrait picture he chose to represent.

Natalie Taylor and a volunteer from Junior Achievement are sketching their portraits

Thank you to Ms. Lockwood and Ms. Smith for running the photo-shoot for Ms. Hannum's class

Lennon Barrow (3rd grade Art Club member) with her completed project

5th grade field trip - Bus ride to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

Relay for Life

Jalesia Tillman (4th grader)

Williams Wildcats participated in the East Gainesville Relay for Life sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The art program supported the effort by designing luminaria for the night portion of the race.

Art Club does Morgan Steele

Ms. Lindquist acquired some original acrylic paintings of Morgan Steele when attending the Florida Folk Art Festival in Orlando this February. Mr. Steele's distinct style of bright, highly stylized, comical animals and figures combined with layers of patterning was the inspiration for Art Club students own acrylic paintings.
Morgan Steele is identified and documented as one of Florida's special Self-Taught Artists in the book:

The Art Club display of Morgan Steele inspired acrylic paintings on board.

Amber Gillete, Fifth Grader, "Turtle and the Tree"

Emanuel Shuman, Second Grader, "Hermit Crab"

Foundation For Success Grant

For the Classroom Teacher

Read with students

Kehinde Wiley Biography

1977 Born in Los Angeles, California
1999 BFA, San Francisco Art Institiute, San Grancisco, California
2001 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
Artist-in-Residence Program, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC

Like the hero of a children’s story, painter Kehinde Wiley grew up as one of six siblings raised with more love than money by a single mom who was an antiques dealer in South Central Los Angeles. His father, who works in architecture, was from Nigeria, and had left Wiley’s mom before he was born. At age 20, Wiley, then studying art in San Francisco, set out for that country’s largest city, Lagos, to find his dad—which he did, remarkably, by asking around. After about a month in Africa, Wiley returned to the U.S., where he started a series of portraits based on his father.That career has been going great guns since the spring of 2001, when Wiley, who had just earned his M.F.A. from Yale, moved to New York to participate in the Studio Museum’s residency program. Over the rest of that year, he began to choose his subjects from what he has called the “runway” of 125th Street. By granting them the ceremonial trappings of the historically rich and famous, he cast himself as the court painter of urban life. In 2005, that role became more literal when VH1 tapped him to immortalize such members of hip-hop royalty as LL Cool J, Ice-T and Biggie Smalls for an campaign advertising that year’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show. Ice-T said, ‘If anyone deserves to be Napoleon, it’s me.’ Accordingly, the rapper and Law & Order SVU star appears in a pastiche of Ingres’s 1806 coronation portrait of the French emperor, complete with golden throne and scepters.
To view all the VH1 paintings go to >>>
http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/hip_hop_honors/2005/art.jhtml

Kehinde Wiley, Dogon Couple, 2007
From " The World Stage" series
Purchased by and on exhibit at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

Over the last two years, Wiley has expanded his work by living and working abroad; he temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture, history and art. His “The World Stage” series is the result of these travels.

"In “The World Stage: Africa Lagos-Dakar,” Wiley critiques the effects of African colonialism, transforms ordinary men into national icons. Yet his photorealistic portraits of young black men set against vibrantly patterned backgrounds derived from textile designs are also beautiful."
~By Dan R. Goddard - Express-News Staff Writer

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, 1806
Oil on canvas; 102 x 63 3/4 in. Musée de l'Armée, Paris

Kehinde Wiley, Ice T, 2005

Oil on canvas
243.8 x 182.9 cm (96 x 72 in)
Private collection, courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery

View this video clip >>> http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/21284520

Classroom teachers -
Please encourage your students to research and find their own pre-1900s portrait painting, make a copy and bring it to art class the week of March 22-26. This is photography week!

Black History Units - 4th & 5th Grades

Students Kindergarten through 5th grades are studying the life and works of accomplished African-American artists. They are learning about each artists' style, medium, technique and then creating an original work in that style.


Fourth Grade - Monochromatic Metaphors ~ in the style of Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899 – February 3, 1979)

Fifth Grade - The geometry of People ~ in the style of William Johnson

William Johnson (March 18, 1901–1970)

Black History Units - Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Kindergarten - "Funny Face Collage" ~ in the style of Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988)

First Grade - Secondary Colors Painting ~ in the style of Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000)

Second Grade - Illustrated Quilts ~ in the style of Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930)

Third Grade - Fabric Collage Quilt Panel ~ in the style of Harriet Powers

Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910)

Session II Art Club

Now open for enrollment!

Art Club is for 2nd - 5th graders who take their art process seriously. The class is designed to further the conceptual and technical skills necessary for sophisticated artisic expression. Because the class is large, individual instruction and attention is minimal, therefore independent working habits are necessary. Applications are being passed out by classroom teachers to their interested students, or . . . you can download a copy here >>>

Application
https://docs.google.com/a/gm.sbac.edu/Doc?docid=0Acee-MmdjWJHZGQ3eDZxeHZfNzVjNGZzd2JjOQ&hl=en