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Story Quilts With Faith Ringgold

12/16/2014

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Students in Kindergarten and first grade have been creating their own "neighborhood" story quilts. Each student used fabric markers, fabric crayons, and ink block printing techniques to create a picture and story about where they live. Our project was inspired by the famous artist Faith Ringgold. During the project we read Faith's famous story "Tar Beach" and used her book as inspiration for our quilt squares. Special thank you to our extra important guest visitor Mrs. Meredith, who brought in sample quilts and is helping make our quilt dream a reality! Mrs. Meredith and  Ms. Reynolds are currently sewing the quilt squares into amazing story quilts to be displayed in the lobby.
Artist Bio:
Faith Ringgold, born in 1930 in Harlem, attended the City College of New York where she received her BS and her MA in Fine Arts. In 1967, Ringgold created a series, The American People, which focused on racial conflict and discrimination. In 1972, she helped found the Women Students and Artists for Black Liberation in order to make sure that African American art exhibitions equally represented men and women. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts, an art form that combines story telling and quilt making with genre painting. Ringgold has also written a children's book, TAR BEACH , which was a Caldecott Honor Book and won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. 

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Faith Ringgold's artistic process

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Bottle Cap Mural

12/10/2014

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Congrats to Mrs. Nelles' class for earning three golden brooms! Each week a class is chosen as the golden broom winner for being the cleanest class. When a class earns three golden brooms they get to participate in a special art project. Mrs. Nelles' class has chosen to create a bottle cap mural.  

Mural Theme: The Four SEasons

Step One: Sorting Donated Caps

Step Two: Rough Draft Mural Sketch
Step three: Bottle cap Glueing

I can't wait to finish assembling this mural and display it in the cafe!
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Shapes in Architecture

12/8/2014

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During the past few art classes 3rd - 5th grade students have been exploring the art of designing a building. Each student has been designing their own 
cityscape using shapes.

Cityscape:
the visual appearance of a city or urban area; a city landscape.
"shades of red brick which once colored the cityscape"
3rd grade sample project
4th - 5th grade sample project
A-Z Buildings Around the World
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PTA Reflections Contest

12/4/2014

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PTA Reflections Contest

During the month of December Carrcroft students K-5th are encouraged to enter the PTA Reflections Contest! The class with the most participation will earn an art party. In addition 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place projects from each category will earn a trophy! Local winners in each category will go on to compete at the district/region and state levels
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Other important info: please turn in entries to Ms. Reynolds with full name, grade, and room number on the back. 

Questions: please contact Ms. Reynolds at

Katherine.reynolds@bsd.k12.de.us
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Theme: “The world would be a better place if…” 

Category: Dance, Film, literature, music composition, photography, and art. 

Deadline: January 12th 2015
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More information, entry forms, and sample projects available via the Delaware PTA website.
Reflections Link
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