Eighth and Ninth grade workshops

We had a busy day today in Wednesday Workshop! The Spanish teacher, Ms. Clavin, came in to discuss a short recital and ask for help creating White Roses, based on a poem. Our students also helped create items for the Day of the Dead altar, finished class projects, and fell in love with Shrinky Dinks. Busy day!

Cadets Lorenzo and Racine work with Shrinky Dinks

Cadet Ye paints the background of his canvas, in preparation for oil painting of a landscape

Cadet Graham continues her acrylic painting based on Frank Stella

Cadet Maier waits patiently for his Shrinky Dink to bake

Cadet Zhou experiments with oil painting

Ms. Clavin address the class 

Cadet Knowles' finished Shrinky Dink pendant based on his cultural heritage

Cadet Ford experiments with oil painting on a spray-painted canvas

Cadet Green sketches a dying flower

Cadet Debree traces a Day of the Dead skull through Shrinky Dink plastic

Cadet Butcher explores metal tooling

Happy Students!

Cadets Ford and Feliz explore Shrinky Dinks as gifts for their loved ones

Workshop Wednesday grades 8 and 9

Our workshops provide art infused with culture, geography, and history. Our students are responsible for researching art and history of a country, creating art based on that culture, and teaching a mini art lesson to the rest of the class, guided by Ms. Simon.

Cadet Dong creates a scale artillery tank out of cardboard

Cadet Lorenzo hangs up his finished dreamcatcher after researching the history of Ojibwe dreamcatchers.

Cadet Maier creates a wire form for his polymer clay sculpture inspired by the movie Alien. The design for the Alien in the movie was created by Swiss artist, HR Giger

Cadet Zhou explores oil pastel scratch art based on the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh

Cadet Debrees works on an embellished felt pillow based on traditional Russian Nesting Dolls

Welcome Fall with 7th Grade's Workshop

7th Graders act as designers. They met with a client, brainstormed, and envisioned seasonal bulletin boards for their dining facility. Ms. Pasquale helped collaborate with our class and we produced our first display together.

From left to right- Cadet Thermidor, Cadet Zelenger, Cadet Pena, Cadet Geng, and Cadet Sun

From left to right- Ms. Simon, Cadet Thermidor, Cadet Zelenger, Cadet Pena, Cadet Geng, Cadet Sun, and Ms. Pasquale

Cadet Zelenger and Cadet Pena work together to staple the branches

Workshop Wednesday grades 8 and 9

Our workshops provide art infused with culture, geography, and history. Our students are responsible for researching art and history of a country, creating art based on that culture, and teaching a mini art lesson to the rest of the class, guided by Ms. Simon.

Cadet Dong creates a scale artillery tank out of cardboard

Cadet Lorenzo hangs up his finished dreamcatcher after researching the history of Ojibwe dreamcatchers.

Cadet Maier creates a wire form for his polymer clay sculpture inspired by the movie Alien. The design for the Alien in the movie was created by Swiss artist, HR Giger

Cadet Zhou explores oil pastel scratch art based on the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh

Cadet Debree works on an embellished felt pillow based on traditional Russian Nesting Dolls

8th grade workshop Oct. 5

Our 8th graders continue to explore cultural and historical influences for their research projects...

Cadet Zhou researches artists and creates a colored pencil study of a tree representing seasons

Cadet Lorenzo teaches a guest how to make a dreamcatcher in preparation to teach the class later in the year

Cadet Lorenzo begins exploring Shrinky Dinks with the rest of his class time

Cadet Graham explores color mixing and creates her own hue of violet

Cadet Graham begins practicing using painter's tape as a stencil to create a painting based on Frank Stella

Cadet Dong observes the cannon on his tank 

Cadets working on various projects simultaneously

Cadet Racine creates a cardboard stencil based on the work in his 8th Grade Art Class in preparation for spray paint

Cadet Ye discovers chalk pastel