Williams Art, J. Lindquist

Kehinde Wiley at the Harn

2011-05-25T10:43:00.000-07:00

4th and 5th grade tudents studied the life and art of Kehinde Wiley. This project was inspired by a painting which was purchased by the Harn Museum of Art for the permanent collection. 4th graders went on a field trip to the Harn to see "The Dogon Couple" original and were blown away! The trip was funded through a Foundation for Success grant that Ms. Lindquist was awarded this year.

Here is Roderick with a drawing of himself as the Ingres' portrait of Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, painted in 1806.

David did his self-portrait after Eugene Delacroix's portrait of Baron Schwiter painted in 1827.

Art Club Celebration!

2011-05-25T10:34:00.000-07:00

We just had our last art club session which once again ended with the now famous "Edible Art" project. It was a great season of Art Club and I hope all members will keep up their sketchbook assignments over the summer.

Mathew with his cookie design - Nice symmetry!

Sana's designs look delicious!

Thank you to the Pizza Hut on Main Street for the donation of personal pan boxes - perfect.

August with his paper mache mask. That's a key for a nose!

Cada, Mathew, Jenaya and Cassie.

Chloe and Sydney with their paper mache masks.

Good job everyone!

A picture is worth 1000 words!

2011-05-06T06:42:00.000-07:00

4th Grade Students

Art photography as prompts for writing

Henri Cartier-Bresson

French, b. 1908, d. 2004

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper (1932)

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photographtaken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.

Migrant Mother (1936), Dorothea Lange
For many, this picture of Florence Owens Thompson (age 32) represents the Great Depression. She was the mother of 7 and she struggled to survive with her kids catching birds and picking fruits. Dorothea Lange took the picture after Florence sold her tent to buy good for her children. She made the first page of major newspapers all over the country and changed people’s conception about migrants.

Surrealist Photography

2011-03-14T11:09:00.000-07:00

4th graders are preparing for their field trip to the Harn Museum of Art. We will be

Highlights from the Photography Collection: Faces and Figures

Nov 9, 2010 – July 3, 2011

This exhibition of about 50 photographs explores representations of the portrait and the nude over the last century. Central to all the selected photographs is a concern for identity. In some cases subjects are treated with specificity as unique individuals while in other cases identity is addressed in more general terms through idealized perfection or association with broad cultural groups. The installation includes portraits of renowned figures such as Pablo Picasso, James Joyce and Mikhail Baryshnikov as well as portraits of anonymous individuals such as Irving Penn’s image of two Nepalese women and Edward Curtis’s image of a Native American woman. For the latter examples, details of costume and dress provide clues to the sitters’ identities. The exhibition also addresses concepts of the nude and the naked by juxtaposing idealized images of the human form (such as Ruth Bernhard’s Classic Torso) with images of figures in various stages of undress by Steven Meisel and Anne Noggle. These themes are further explored in portraits and nudes by famed photographer Andy Warhol. The exhibition is made possible by the Sidney Knight Endowment.

Dali Atomicus, photo by Philippe Halsman

Papier mache - Resources for Art Club

2011-01-27T08:27:00.000-08:00

Papier mache masks

Middle School masks

Kindergarten Still-life drawings

2010-12-08T05:59:00.000-08:00

Mary - Ms. Ambrose kindergarten class

Kyan - Ms. Ambrose kindergarten class

Wildcat Student Artists!

2010-10-20T07:22:00.000-07:00

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

Keith & Octavious analyzing postcard art productions using a Venn diagram

Kehinde Wiley project

2010-05-21T04:42:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-21T04:38:00.001-07:00

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

2010-04-23T09:50:00.001-07:00

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

2010-02-26T07:02:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-29T08:16:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-29T07:54:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-05T04:51:00.000-08:00

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

5th grade self-portraits

2009-12-10T11:08:00.000-08:00

Fifth graders studied famous portrait paintings and caricature cartoons. They used their knowledge of facial porportions and exageration to create their own self-portrait picture.

Foundation for Schools grant awarded!

2009-12-10T10:51:00.000-08:00

5th graders will be taking a field trip to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Artto see the recent acquisition of one of Kehinde Wiley's oil paintings. http://www.harn.ufl.edu/

The students will also be creating an original piece of art in the style of Wiley based on a unit of study.

Congratulations Keden Wallace

2009-11-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Keden Wallace in Ms. Baker's second grade class. He has his Amazon Rainforest picture on display in a special exhibition at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Art Club Registration

2009-09-04T09:29:00.000-07:00

Wow! Art Club is fully enrolled with only 2 scholarship positions remaining available. (Scholarships are reserved exclusively for free/reduced lunch students)
The early registration during Open House showed overwhelming interest in extended art enrichment opportunities. For anyone who was interested in Art Club but did not get in for this semester, remember that a new session will begin following the winter holidays.

It was great seeing everyone last night. It was the largest attendance for Open House I have seen at Williams in the 20 years I have been working here.

You can download and print a copy of the Art Club permission slip. It is still a great idea to be on the waiting list. For a variety of reasons positions open-up throughout the year and I will invite those on the waiting list to join if they are still interested.

Art Club Registration & Permission Slip
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgb56dvr_18dzv2xrn4

Day 1 of the 2009 - 2010 school year!

2009-08-26T11:55:00.000-07:00

Thank you again to the voters of this community who chose to help fund full-service arts programming in the elementary schools! I wish I could have filmed the surprised and delighted reactions from the kids when they saw me on campus that first day. It was beyond heartwarming to witness how much they appreciated having art class in school.

To start off with . . .

Kindergarten - First grade are beginning the year learning basic techniques with clay.

2nd - 5th grade is learning how to read the credit line and analyze art works from a variety of perspectives

In response to the many inquiries I've received in regards to Art Club . . .
YES, there will be an Art Club this year!

Once our enrollment and schedules have stabilized we will pick dates and times to hold sessions. The first club meeting will be just after Labor Day.
Check backpacks for further information.

I'm Back!

2009-06-25T19:56:00.000-07:00

It was wonderful teaching art to students at Idylwild Elementary school this past semester. I will miss them. They are excited to have their original art teacher back in the fall the same way that I am excited to be back home here at Williams. Thought I would throw out this miny-movie clip from of "art in action".

First graders painting with watercolor.

A semester of Art programming is coming to an end

2009-01-06T16:04:00.000-08:00

. . . the good news is your going to be getting a music program now! I will begin providing art instruction to the students at Idylwild Elementary and the music teacher there will be coming to Williams to provide you with music instruction. Please give a warm Wildcat welcome to Ms. Lou Hyatt when she arrives on January 20.

Keep up the good work. You have been incredible with a fast pace in the art room this year. We have accomplished a lot. Truly a team effort. It has been a joy.

Enjoy some of these student art works . . .

Max Fowler, 4th grade
Smoothe as Jazz
(in the style of Aaron Douglas)

Aaron Douglas was a Harlem Renaissance artist. To learn more about him go to
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/douglas_aaron.html#imagegalleries

Darius Stackhouse, 1st grade
Climbing the Jungle Gym

And more art . . .

2009-01-06T15:51:00.001-08:00

Stephon Gould, 5th grader
In the style of William Johnson

William Johnson was a Harlem Renaissance artist. To learn more about him go to:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/johnson_william_h.html

Alex Hood, 1st grader
Playground Party

And more art . . .

2009-01-06T15:36:00.000-08:00

Jenna Smith, 2nd grade
Amate Bark Painting

Afrika Belle, 2nd grade
Amate Bark Painting

Worth a Million Words

2008-11-14T18:52:00.000-08:00

Students at Williams were invited to share their love for art, music and school nurses through postcard art. The post cards were supplied by the Friends of Alachua County Public Schools Elementary Arts Programs and the Gainesville Community Foundation and were mailed to our Alachua County Legislators. We hope this postcard campaign would remind our state officials that arts education is important in Alachua County. They sure reminded me!

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Third Grade - Georgia O'Keefe

2008-09-25T06:59:00.000-07:00

Third graders are creating warm and cool color flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keefe.

Here are Xavier Collins and Isaiah Gordon from Ms. Scott's class with their work-in-progress.

The lesson with reproductions and objectives.

Talented Student Artists

2008-09-24T19:34:00.000-07:00

The Art Program is in full swing and our student artists are creating high quality projects. Second through fifth graders began the year with lessons on reading the credit line (the information that accompanies a piece of art). They learned how to identify the artist, the artist’s nationality, date of production, title of piece, medium and size. They learned the various mediums artists use for visual creative expression and practiced analyzing pieces from a variety of perspectives.
First through fifth graders all recently completed “Name Plate” designs. They learned basic graphic design principles of spacing, balance, symmetry, positive/negative space and warm and cool colors. Completed pieces are on exhibit in the art building foyer gallery. Kindergarteners are now completing self-portrait paintings – to be on display soon.
New projects are beginning this week.
First grade – “People in Action”
Second Grade – “Amate Bark Paintings”
Third Grade – “Georgia O’Keefe Flowers”
Fourth Grade – “Mona Lisa/American Gothic Parodies”
Fifth Grade – “City Street - Linear Perspective”

Keep up the good work!

Summer Update

2008-06-26T20:42:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacation.
I just developed some end of the year photos and wanted to share this one . . .

Samuel, Deanna and Ja'Mese are 3 creative and cool kindergarteners, as you can tell.

I know you have seen the news of the funding cuts to the art and music programs in our county for next school year. The good news is that I will be at Williams with you all. The bad news is that it will only be half of the year. As things stand now (although I am campaigning to reinstate our full-service art programs) I will be the art teacher at Idylwild the other half.
I am myself enjoying summer vacation so far. Thank you for your emails and calls. It has been wonderful hearing from you. I love your ideas for future art projects! Keep them coming.
I will 'blog' again closer to the school year to let you know how plans have progressed.
Enjoy the rest of your summer.
Now go make some art!

Love,
Ms. Lindquist

It's Been Great!

2008-06-04T19:13:00.001-07:00

Have a great summer young artists.

Remember to keep in practice.
Buy a sketchbook ($1 at the DollarStore) and draw from real life. Set something on a table in front of you and draw it. Try and make it fill up the paper-space and add shading if you can. Plain ol' pencil on paper. There is nothing better to stay in training and to foster the most important skill in being an artist - really seeing!
Bring your sketchbook to school in the fall for me to see . . . . . p l e a s e.

Congratulations to all on so many amazing accomplishments. It's been a pleasure.
Love,
Ms. Lindquist

Juneteenth Festival & Juried Art Show

2008-06-04T18:58:00.000-07:00

It's Almost Here!

Please come out to Lincoln Park on the Williams Elementary and Lincoln Middle School campus on June 14 & 15 anywhere between 10:00am - 8:00pm and experience African American cultural heritage through the arts. Many of our students will have art work on display in the children's art tent. Mr. Thomas and his band will be performing some wonderful Jazz. And very thrilling to me, is that 8 Highwaymen will be exhibiting! The Highwaymen were a group of young African American artists from Ft. Pierce who painted Florida landscapes and sold them of the side of the roads in the early 60s. There work hangs in the Governors office and is sought after by art collectors everywhere. This is the first time that this many from the group will be together since they were conducted in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame (floridahighwaymen.com)

To know more about the festival visit jfestcentral.com

Science Fair

2008-06-04T18:53:00.000-07:00

The Science Fair was a big success. I am so proud of the Art Club participation.
Here is a picture of Max Fowler, Shane Schenck and Mihir Patel (3rd graders) with their color inquiry on creating the pigment color 'peach'. Good Job!

Art Club - Scientific Method

2008-04-30T10:10:00.001-07:00

The Art Club explores 'Color'.
Steps of the scientific method
1. Name the problem or question
2. Form an educated guess (hypothesis)
3. Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment
4. Check and interpret your results
5. Report your results
Second graders, Justin Harbilas, Promise Santos & Desitiny Bivins wondered how to make silver paint. They pose here with their exhibit displaying the evidence of their research.

Third graders, Emili Pearson, Destiny Dunaway and Elaa Singh wondered how many different shades of brown could be made by mixing the primary colors (yellow, red and blue).

Current Curriculum

2008-04-30T06:35:00.000-07:00

Kindergarten through 2nd grades are studying proportions of the human figure, learning the techniques for representing the human form in natural poses.
Third grade is studying 'warm and cool' colors and analogous colors. They are using these color schemes and relationships in creating a oil pastel picture in the style of Georgia O'Keefe.
Fourth grade is just finishing up a Still-Life project.
Fifth grade is completing a project on Linear Perspective.

JFest 2008
June 14 & 15.
Some of our students will have art work on exhibit at the Juneteenth Arts Festival this summer. Ms. Lindquist is in charge of the youth art exhibit and welcomes volunteers

(Call 352-339-1698).

Students working with clay

2008-04-30T04:49:00.000-07:00

Kindergartener, Samuel Freeman with his modeling clay sculpture.

Fourth grader, Isaiah Smith with his Timucuan-syle clay pot.

. . . and Tavaris Jones.

*The Timucua were an American Indian people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia.

Harn Reception

2008-04-25T09:47:00.000-07:00

It was a spectacular evening celebrating our talented students and their art achievements at the Harn. Thank you to 5th grade teacher, Laura Maxwell, for attending.

Last Friday, guest artist Adam Eccleston, gave a presentation about making jewelry to the students in

Ms. Ulrich's kindergarten class, Ms. Skipper's 4th grade class and Ms. Davis' 2nd grade class. The presentation was fascinating and our students were so interested and respectful.

Mr. Eccleston had his jewelry on exhibit at the 5th
Avenue Art Fair.

GRU / Wards Canvas Earth Day Bags

2008-04-25T08:52:00.000-07:00

Beautiful and smart art. Our students decorated canvas grocery bags that were given away at Wards supermarket last Tuesday, Earth Day. It was a team effort, from kindergarten through 5th grades to get all 100 bags completed within a week.
We received a "Thank You" card from a man in Alachua, Florida (as copied)
"I was so pleased to receive one of your hand painted bags when I went grocery shopping on Earth Day. The bag is beautiful and I will use it every time I go shopping. You must truly love the earth to create so many bags to save the Earth's resources."
- David Williams

Williams' student DO love our Earth!!!!!

Art Club Announcements

2008-04-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

Williams Art Club

The last Art Club meeting will be on May 20.

We have finished our projects using the scientific method to explore ideas of “Color”.
For our last project we will be creating acrylic paintings on board, a la Matisse, “Scenes of the Seasons”.

This Tuesday’s Art Club meeting (April 29) is cancelled. I will be going to Tallahassee with the School Board and ACEA (teacher’s union) to talk with our state legislators about school policy and budget issues. If you have any words you would like me to pass on your behalf, write me a note or call. I'd be happy to.

Thank you,
Jennifer Lindquist
352-339-1698

Juneteenth Festival & Juried Art Show

2008-04-22T13:34:00.000-07:00

JFest 2008

June 14 & 15, 10:00am - 8:00pm

I will be teaching a variety of lessons inspired by the upcoming Juneteenth Festival & Juried Art Show both in art class with our students and periodically here in this blog for the last couple of weeks of school for everyone. It is an historic event both in what it commemorates and as the first arts festival of it's kind in East Gainesville. The event encompasses the ideas of African Heritage, the arts (visual, music and performance) and culture.

Also, many of our students will be participating in the Youth Art Competition and Exhibit!

Lesson #1 - What is Juneteenth?
History (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
Though the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued on September 22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863, it had little immediate effect on most slaves’ day-to-day lives, particularly in Texas, which was almost entirely under Confederate control. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived on Galveston Island to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves. Legend has it while standing on the balcony of Galveston’s Ashton Villa, Granger read the contents of “General Order No. 3”
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.[6]
That day has since become known as Juneteenth, a name derived from a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth.

Go to Gainesville's JFest website to know it all -

http://www.cce.ufl.edu/JFest/index.html

Carnival, 4th Grade DVD cover designs & news

2008-04-21T15:57:00.000-07:00

Good news:
The Williams Annual School Carnival and Spring Arts show is this Friday the 25th. Please come and celebrate with our school family, support the PTA and revel in the artistic talents of our students!
The 4th Grade DVD cover designs for the "Let It Be Told!" oral histories project of Williams' alumni pre-integration have been receiving compliments in the community. They are very impressive. I invite you to view an example interview of what our students used as inspiration for their DVD designs.
Go to http://www.documentary.org/resources/fiscal_sponsorship_donate.php?film_id=3022
Not so good news:
I'm sure you aware of the budget cuts that are affecting the planning for next school year. It is hard for me to believe that our school board/district would allow the arts to be cut from the school curriculum as a means to lower expenses. But with the recent press . . . (please review the article in last Wednesday's Gainesville Sun http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080416/NEWS/804160360
As parents, you see the value of arts programming in your child's education. I urge you to contact our school board members for more responsible measures for dealing with our budget issues and to express any and all of your thoughts about your child's education.
Thanks, and get your face painted by Ms. Lindquist at the carnival.

Emmanuel Durr's photograph

2008-03-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

Here is Emmanuel Durr's photograph titled "Bikes Outside" that was selected to be the postcard art for the Harn Museum of Art's announcement for the Annual Student Art Exhibition.

Please take time to visit the website and view ALL the fifth grade photographs at
http://www.williamspta.org/photoshowcase/ .

Art is Blooming

2008-03-24T06:57:00.001-07:00

All are invited to attend the opening reception of the Harn Museum of Art’s annual Alachua County Student Exhibition on April 24th at 7:00pm. Congratulations Emmanuel Durr, Fred Carmen, Collyn Thomas, Davis Wilkey and Luke Meyer. These fifth graders have their photographs on display in this special exhibition. Emmanuel Durr had his photograph selected to be the postcard design advertising the exhibition. To see Emmaunuel’s original photograph and view ALL our talented 5th graders go to http://www.williamspta.org/photoshowcase/ .

Congratulations to 5th grader Tesshia Adolphe for having her painting “Going To the Movies” inspired by Jacob Lawrence (one of the best-known of the twentieth century African American painters) on exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.

All students at Williams are engaged in meaningful art experiences each week in our visual arts program. Come see the work on display in the building. Our students are so talented.

VOLUNTEER! Our students have recently completed projects. They are mounted, labeled and ready to go. Come by the art room any time, grab a stack and hang them on any piece of empty wall you can find. Donations of Plasti-tack and/or Wax greatly appreciated. Come by TODAY!

Ceonda Honer & Jasmine Murphy at the Thomas Center

2008-02-24T18:44:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to 5th graders Ceonda Honer and Jasmine Murphy. These two students have art work on display in a special exhibition at the Thomas Center that will run from March 1 - 23. Ther will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 6 @ 6:30 and everyone is invited to attend!

Projects are coming to completion as part of the school-wide Black History Unit.

Curriculum:

K - Romare Bearden, "Funny Face Collage"

1 - William Johnson, "Family Portrait Tempera Painting"

2 - Faith Ringgold, "Community Quilts"

3 - Harriet Powers, "Story Quilt, Fabric Collage"

4 - Graphic Design of the Harlem Rennaissance, "DVD Cover Design"

5 - Jacob Lawrence, "Narrative Painting with Tempera"

Congratulations to Emanuel Durr!

2008-02-20T18:13:00.001-08:00

5th grader, Emanuel Durr had his photograph entitled "Bikes Outside" selected to be the postcard and poster image for advertising the Harn Museum of Art's student exhibition. When you see the image you'll understand why. Beautiful work Emanuel!