Hello parents and students and welcome back for the 2011-2012 school year! I am very excited to be teaching your children all about the visual arts. This year promises to be the best yet because I am full time and will be spending more time with students. This year I decided to charge an art fee for each student. The reason for this was to save you time and money. The school is able to purchase the supplies we need in bulk, which is more cost effective, for example: a sketchbook alone costs $4 to $5 dollars and the school can get them for $2. The $5 fee buys the following for each student:
1. Sketchbook
2. Portfolio
3. Markers, crayons, colored pencils
4. White glue, Glue sticks
5. Water color paints, acrylic paints
6. Specialty paper
7. Any other supplies we need for our projects
Thank you for supporting the art program at Pikes Peak Prep!
To start out the year our focus will be on space and form. During this unit K-6th grade students will be doing six projects. Each project will take about one week to complete.
1. Shapes and forms
2. Face forms
3. Body forms
4. Shapes in space
5. Objects in space
6. Animal forms
7th, 8th, and High School will begin by studying Marcel Duchamp and the Dada movement. We will also learn about the work of Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, and Daniel Spoerri, among others. Students will complete an “assemblage” art project where they will be using/altering everyday objects to create a work of art.
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