Our Lower School Art Teacher, Cathy Hicks, prepares for a special art show during our Celebration Of The Arts! If you are interested in this type of show check out the website https://artome.com/ I am always thrilled when I get to walk my middle school kids through this show. They love it and are always speaking about their art from lower school art show. It is good to support one another in our spiraling art curriculum this helps build camaraderie and Public Relations for the programs. This is their mission: Artomé is the most experienced youth Art Show provider in the industry. Ou ..read more

  Each year our PK does a phenomenal job of hands on art projects. Art is important for children especially during their early development. Research shows that art activities develop brain capacity in early childhood. Shout out to Maclay's Pre-School because you guys nailed this art show!!! Art engages children's senses in open-ended play and supports the development of cognitive, social-emotional and multi-sensory skills. This is evident in your Art Show, Kudos to all of the faculty staff down in Maclay PK! They also held an Artome Art Show and I do believe they were very close t ..read more

  Yes! This was a success. Grandparents loved this interactive hands on activity for our COTA2023. This was done in an Upper School art class. We had a canvas, so we primed it. They made our tree design it into fractals. the next step was to label it and trace it using the technology in the classroom. Below are a few samples of photos from the event. And, a few process ideas of how we prepared for the activity. Hope this inspires you. More COTA23 ideas will be posted and linked in one post for your convenience to learn more. If you have any questions, just drop them in ..read more

  COTA 2022 Photography Opportunity Created By Ismael Milligan Every year we have a spot / booth for folks to take a picture during the Celebration of the Arts to document the event. Plus it always adds a little something extra for everyone to enjoy. This year, Ismael Milligan, created this marvelous front porch themed watercolor for the event and it was a success for all involved! You can see from the sampling of photos here this was quite the attraction. Thanks, ISH! We all enjoyed this piece to our #COTA2023. We will be posting the rest of the events soon. Once they are all blogged ..read more

  This is year 2 for this event and it just keeps getting better and better. I am proud to be apart of this team. Scroll below to see some of the artsy goodness from this Art Show. The link below will give you the details on how students submitted for the show. We had help with our NHAS Officers in curating this exhibition in the BFIC. To learn more about this art show please click the link below: Come Together US Art Show Opening ..read more

Well, here we are for our second annual Elaine Cochran Memorial Art Award. I was very happy for this years recipient!. Emily Hawken is a super talented young lady and our mama would have loved her artsy goodness. She has a hippie attitude and beats to her own drum - just like the way we were raised. I am not going to lie, I miss good ole' "Elaine P" each and every day. This was a heart smile for me as we were able to recognize my very sweet mama. You see my mama loved arts and crafts. She was always dabbling in different mediums. She supported 1965 and I with all of our crazy artsy idea ..read more

I lightly based this art project on Diego Rivera's watermelons.   Have a l?k at his last painting of watermelons? Click HERE for previous Diego Rivera Posts How did this watermelon project go down? Click HERE for a kid friendly bio Click HERE for Diego Rivera: His World and Ours Read Aloud Book I let the kids do an abstract background with acrylic. Then, they made watermelons with paper. They glued the watermelons on the abstract painting. L?Kie! And of course, I played Harry Styles "Watermelon Sugar" ?, 1965 ..read more

  I found this great resource online. And, the last week of classes before exams we created a few while we finished up unfinished work in our portfolios before they went home. Have you ever tried these? If not, it was a great lesson for the end of the quarter. 1969 ..read more

You ask, what in the world? Well, I had a red bird that kept slamming into my window.  He would peck on it.  He would run into it.  He was having some major poop issues.  I felt like I needed to help my bird friend out.  I painted these eyes and hung them all over the back of my house.   Why these eyes? I googled bird repellent devices.  I found these 2 items: The one above ? seemed a little hard to hang inside the window frame.  I decided to scroll on! Then, I saw the one above ? that is called a Bird-X Scare Eye.  A pack of 3 was ab ..read more

Who doesn't love bunnies?  They are always a favorite.  Who is the most famous bunny?  Bugs, of course! These bunnies are in the style of Hunt Slonem.  We have posted on him before.  Click HERE for Post on Hunt Slonem! How did this go down? I showed the kids some of Hunt Slonem's work. They drew with pencil. Then, they finished up with posca markers. They sure love posca markers. Click HERE for Posca Markers info! Also, I gave a mini lesson on how to use a glue stick!  Always a good review that can be applied in all classrooms! L?K! ?, 1965 ..read more