ART Auction Preparation 2024

 

Artists Preparing for the Art Auction

Works from multiple artistic disciplines are being created by our talented artists. Group and individual art pieces will be sold to the highest bidder. All proceeds will go to the earthquake victims from Turkey and Syria.

 

Zines

There are no set-in-stone rules for making zines. A zine can be about anything you’re interested in. Really! There are all kinds of zines including: fanzines (a zine about something or someone you love), cooking zines full of recipes and tips, comic zines, art zines, poetry zines, and personal zines where people write about their daily lives.   

In the AFTER School activity “Make your own zine” we learned few techniques on how to make A3 zines by special way of folding the paper that you can later copy it on a copier machine and have multiple copies of one zine that you can later share. Students had so much fun creating and publishing their zines.

 

Works in progress

Collaborations, experiments, and idea explorations in art class.

TASK Party

 Inspired by the contemporary artist Oliver Herring and other TAB teachers, we started the school year with a task party. It is a fantastic activity that sets the tone for collaboration, material and idea exploration and problem solving in the classroom. Students select a task out of a box and then they complete the task, but have to use design and out of the box thinking in order to be able to complete the tasks.

TAB Art Classroom

I am so fortunate my school supported me and gave me the opportunity to take part this summer in a TAB workshop organized by MassArt (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) to develop, enrich and expand my practice as a TAB teacher. The TAB or choice based art is a student-directed learning that meets the needs of all students, empowering them to make art that is uniquely theirs.

TAB classroom does not follow the factory style logic where all students create similar artwork. In a choice based classroom, students are the artists that choose the studio or studios they want to work in and make choices of materials, ideas and processes. This approach develops all the 21st century skills and teaches students to think like artists.

Poster taken from https://www.nerdyartkid.com/art-curriculum

Gelatin Printmaking

Gelatin printmaking is a really exciting technique. It is a form of mono printing which means no two prints are the same. The softness of the gelatin allows the artists to capture and print intricate details. The emphasis is on the process of experimenting with textures, shapes and and experimenting rather than on the final outcome.