Thank you, thank you- Warmly, Galia”

“Art is individualism. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

LESSON OF THE WEEK: Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower 3-5’s This week the students will learn about the most important holiday of the year – Mother’s Day :0). We will honor the wonderful women in our lives by making a Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower. This project will be fun and creative, yet it will also …

Great comprehensive show through April 30th! Go see it! After a fabulous tour with Riva Blumenfeld last Wednesday, I highly suggest a visit before this show ends next Saturday… Based on this Russian painter’s early use of simplified shape and pure colors, see how artists such as Stella, Twombly, Newman, Kelly, Judd, LeWitt, Serra, Calder …

LESSON OF THE WEEK: Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower 3-5’s This week the students will learn about the most important holiday of the year – Mother’s Day :0). We will honor the wonderful women in our lives by making a Mother’s Day Crepe Paper Flower. This project will be fun and creative, yet it will also …

We’ll explore sculptor Louise Nevelson’s techniques of painting and arranging found objects in a small frame to create a pleasing composition to exemplify balance, variation and scale!

LESSON OF THE WEEK (3-5’s) WOODAABE POUCHES The people of the African tribe, Woodaabe, are known to idealize and celebrate beauty; some may even call them narcissists. The tribesmen wear Woodaabe pouches around their necks decorated with found objects such as beads, buttons, and copper along with a mirror. Students will create their own Woodaabe Pouches using …

Line, shape and form were the themes while noticing artists and architecture.

We’ll be practicing our reuse skills to create abstract landscapes by stacking and compacting a plethora of multi-colored plastic bags replicating a landscape of our choice!