2013 Art Festival: Pop Op Art

We celebrated the Prior Lake-Savage Elementary artists on May 6, 2013 showcasing Pop & Op art.

Check out this article in the Prior Lake American!

Thank you to the amazing artists!

Kindergarten: Andy Warhol Flowers

1st Grade: Jasper Johns Alphabets

2nd Grade: Andy Warhol Prints

3rd Grade: Robert Indiana LOVE

4th Grade: Bridget Riley Op Art

5th Grade: Wayne Thiebaud Cakes

Art Adventure: Kpele Kpele Masks

The Art Adventure Program through the Minneapolis Institute of Art introduces K-6 students to works of art from a variety of cultures. Trained school volunteers visit classrooms with posters of art relating to a common theme, such as animals, celebrations, or relationships

The kpele kpele mask represents the junior male element in a series of four mask types that appear in pairs in the Goli ceremony.The Goli dances are performed at elders' funerals and as village entertainment. The dance was introduced to the Baule by the neighboring Wan people around 1900. The four sets of dancers are symbols of the structure of society and the inter-relationships of men, women and the social order.

4th grade students used paper plates, raffia, egg cartons, and other mixed media for their masks.

A spin on paper weaving!

Paper weaving with 1st and 2nd grade students can get boring...red, blue, red, blue gets old after 10 years.  So, I was looking for a new way to teach the concept!
Thanks to Pinterest, I found www.artsmudge.com and this lesson.

We started by painting 2 12x12 white papers, one with warm colors, one with cool colors in watercolor.
The following week, we cut one of the papers into strips, and weaved in between the other.  We love the results!

Primarily Mondrian

Kindergarteners and 1st graders learned about the artist, Piet Mondrian, and his love of primary colors, squares, and rectangles.

We started w/ a 12x18 black (or white) paper, then cut red, yellow, blue, and white (or black) small papers into geometric shapes.

(Teacher's example)

Jasper Johns inspired Alphabets

For the 2013 Elementary Art Festival, students learned about various Pop artists.  1st grade learned about Jasper Johns.

Here's his original piece:

Students started with a grid, then added letters with oil pastels.
Next, they used watercolor paint on top of the oil pastels for a resist.