Art classes meet once every six days for 50 minutes. We have two art rooms. One room is used for two dimensional work; painting, drawing, textiles and collage. The second room is the three dimensional and crafts room. In this room we work on projects like pottery, sculpture, and plaster masks. The room is equipped with two kilns and two pottery wheels.
Student artwork is displayed in showcases and walls throughout the year and every student has a piece of art displayed the Related Arts Festivals in March.
Third Grade
Third grade works in a variety of mediums. The students make clay projects. Textile projects such as weaving is done of cardboard looms and construction paper masks are created using facial proportions, markers, paper layering, feathers, and crayons. Every third grader is exposed to painting, drawing, collage, and clay while being introduce to the arts creative process. Students learn how to solve visual problems while creating art.
Fourth Grade
Fourth graders study about Pennsylvania artists in conjunction with their PA History Unit. Each class learns about a famous artist that was born in or lived in Pennsylvania. Did you know great artists Mary Cassatt, Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, and Alexander Calder were born in our commonwealth? Fourth graders visit a local artist, Bill Lynch at Penn's Creek Pottery, and learn about his techniques on the potters on the wheel.
Fifth Grade
Art in fifth grade becomes more involved and complicated. Students have the opportunity to try their hand on the potters wheel, to draw the Intermediate School, and to make masks using molds. Also self awareness in drawings, photo montages, paintings, and collages are encouraged!
Jasper Johns Zero-Nine
Smiles are an art room away!