Elementary Art Club will be welcoming 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade artists this year. We will meet on Fridays at 2:30-3:15 starting on September 15th. A completed sign-up form is required for each student to attend. Forms are available on my PKY Class Page. Completed forms can be brought to me at any time, but enrollment is limited, and only a few spots are left! I’m very much looking forward to providing this opportunity to all of our young artists at P.K. Yonge. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions at [email protected]!
Our PKY Art Club page can be found here.
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I am looking forward to starting a new school year and creating amazing works of art with our Blue Wave artists - those who are returning as well as those who are new to P.K.!
Elementary Open House will be held on September 7th. The specials team hopes to see you there! The annual P.K. Yonge Spring Art Show is scheduled this year for Thursday, May 11th. I encourage everyone to come and see the amazing artwork our Blue Wave artists have created this year. Parents and guardians, please contact me at [email protected] if you would like to volunteer to assist in the preparation for this event!
Winners of this year's contest have been announced. Please join me in congratulating Isabella Acuna for her placement in the 4th grade category! Her artwork will be featured in the upcoming 2018 "Saving My Alachua" calendar.
All of the selected K-12 entries are currently on display in the County Administration Building (12 SE 1st Street) for the month of April. The artwork has also been posted on the contest's official Facebook page. I encourage everyone to check it out. Thank you to all students who participated in this year's UF HealthStreet awards. Blue Wave artists recently won first and second place in the 3rd-5th grade category, as well as first place in the K-2nd grade category. Please join me in congratulating Isabella Acuna, Polina Antonenko, and Jaeden Johnson for their hard work!
Greetings, Everyone, I’m happy to announce that Art Club will be starting for Elementary students during the second semester of the year. The planned days and times are as follows:
Art Club Form Below is a link to the Art Club Sign-Up Sheet. If your student is interested in joining, and you didn't get a chance to fill out a sheet at open house, please print the form and you or your student may bring it to the art room once completed.
Click here for the Art Club Sign-Up Sheet. As I mentioned during open house, Art Club will begin in January, and will meet weekly. The meeting day is still to be determined. I will post more information as the second semester approaches. I'm happy to invite everyone to have a look inside the PKY Elementary Art Studio throughout the year at our new Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marrenpky. I'm also looking forward to inviting the families of the artists into the studio in person on Tuesday, September 6th, after the "welcome and introductions" at 5:30! 2nd-5th grade students have been creating special projects to display for open house which represent this year's school theme of "P.K. Yonge's Blue Wave Nation - Embracing Our Differences as We Build the Future." Hope to see you then! Today in art class, we had our first Wacky Wednesday with the Poole, Geiger, and Lanier 4/5 advisory groups. The artists and I decided to try out a choice-based art day, meaning each student had the opportunity to choose one art medium to work with, (with the ability to switch media midway through class time), and direct their own exploration, learning, and creativity. The available choices for today were drawing, (including pencils, markers, crayons, and pastels), modeling clay, art books, floor puzzles, and yes… painting.
Our elementary Blue Wave artists did an amazing job with this experiment, and greatly impressed me by staying focused on their art and leaving the studio as clean as they found it… (okay, maybe 95%-99% as clean as they found it, but that’s fantastic for our first try!). Thanks again to the Poole, Geiger, and Lanier advisory groups for doing such a great job today! I would like to thank all of our Elementary Artists for an amazing first week of art class!
This week in class, we worked on the following projects: K/1 artists warmed up for a year of creativity by drawing their heroes, their favorite places, and their choice of any creature. Mom and Dad were many artists' heroes, and Skate Station was a popular place. 2/3 artists got to create monsters with modeling clay. This activity was an exercise in "sketching" with clay, and great practice for working quickly and creatively. Students were given a prompt for sculpting a monster, such as "spikey monster," "flying monster," "food monster," or "eyeball monster." Students had several minutes to create their monster before smushing the clay back into a ball to start a new monster with a new prompt. 4/5 artists created large-scale collaborative drawings. Each table was covered in a large sheet of paper, and students were each given a marker to draw at their seat. Every few minutes, students were instructed to switch spots, and to add to the drawing they found in their new spot, or to begin a new drawing in any available space. I am extremely impressed by the creativity and cooperation we have had in the art room already. It's going to be a great year! Go Blue Wave, Mr. Marren |
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Visit our class Flickr page to see photos of student artwork. www.flickr.com/photos/marrenpky/ Archives
September 2017
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