Assignments for week of October 27 & into November 3

Grade 7-Students are adding aboriginal dot designs to the ceramic clay frogs. We will continue on this through Wednesday. Drum sticks will be stained or painted on Thursday. On Friday students will complete a brief artist statement/biography to include with their frog for the auction. This will be due on Monday. Students may type it up at home or neatly hand write. Max width will be 7 inches across. We will mount the statement/biography to cardstock in class on Monday and add some decorative dot details. I plan to have a student art exhibit of the frogs during lunch on Tuesday, November 4. I will ask a few students to act as docents for the exhibit while they take turns eating lunch. I will also need a few students to act as docents during the eighth grade lunch. Grade 7 art students will set up the exhibit of 6th and 7th grade frogs during class on Tuesday.
Next projects:

• finish fall pastel drawings...possibly two more days.
• Narnia based 3D wardrobes...the outside design will be based on traditional architecture... students need to come up with an imaginary place/topic based on personal interests to be the interior of the wardrobe.

Grade 6-Students have completed frogs. We are working on a few group project frogs to add to the auction. Students will complete artist statements/biographies to include with their frog in the auction. This is due on Monday. Students may type it up at home or hand write neatly. Max width is 7 inches. On Monday, November 3 we will mount the papers to cardstock and add some decorative details. We will have a student art exhibit of the "Frogs on Parade" at lunch on Tuesday, November 4. I will ask a few students to act as docents for the show during the 6th grade lunch times.

Students are continuing on the African design GOLD worksheet. This will be collected on Thursday. Students voted to change our topics for printmaking and ceramic clay. The abstract faces will be the subject for a future ceramic clay project. We will form cylinders and use clay additive techniques to create tiki/totem designs. Our current printmaking project is designing a Kenya based warrior shield. We will print the shield 4 to 5 times and collage to shields together from these original prints. We will incorporate some fiber arts by sewing in some yarn or rafia into the completed collages.

Other projects:

• I still hope to try pastel PUMPKIN drawings if we can get a few more pumpkins to have as reference. Please keep us in mind as the plastic pumpkins go on sale. I would like to touch on working with space in a picture plane as we try the still life drawings.
• If we get the Narnia grant I plan to have students construct SNOWFLAKES out of wire and beads for the lobby of Springfield Little Theatre. These would be great keepsakes to use as decoration every winter.

Don't forget...November 7th is the "Frogs on Parade" auction!!