Art Storm

Chittenden South Elementary and Middle Schools are participating in a fundraising even at CVU. Students form these schools used a water drop shape as inspiration for their work. Ceramic plates and other artwork will be available for a donation, which will go to flood relief. This project allows students to make a positive contribution to the world by helping those who have been impacted by Hurricane Irene.

Equinox 3rd and 4th graders, as well as Full and Sterling House middle school students have either made or glazed these wonderful water drop plates.

Please come to this event on
Wednesday, March 14th
from 6-7:30PM
in the CVU Cafeteria

Painting with Crayons and Blow Dryers

"Shake Rattle and Roll... Moving and Grooving at WCS"

This year for Theme Week I teamed up with Cris Milks to shake things up! We offered students the chance to rattle their imaginations by rolling out canvas and crayons. Blow dryers melted the wax and students used a variety of media to create a piece of truly unique art.

Clay Cupcakes!?!

Inspired by Ashley and Callahan's love of cupcakes, third and fourth graders
created cupcakes out of clay! They look good enough to eat! The top is actually a frosting inspired rattle that fits on top of a clay "cake" bowl. We will be celebrating by having a pastry chef come in and show us some artistic ways of decorating real cupcakes!

Happy New Year!

Chinese New Year was January 23, 2012. It is the most important of all the traditional Chinese holidays. It is also called the Spring Festival. It is the 1st day of the Chinese Lunar calendar. This year, it is the year of the DRAGON! Inspired by dragons and the New Year, students created "Something out of Nothing". It is one of my favorite Art Room games. Students were given a doodle and used their imagination to turn "nothing" into a dragon. Students used water colors and oil pastels to create a unified composition.

Georgia O'Keefe

As a follow up project to soap making, 3rd and 4th graders studied American artist Georgia O'Keefe. They looked at nature through a microscope. They created acrylic paintings based on an enlarged nature images of a flower, shell, skull, leaf, butterfly wing, etc.

Making SOAP... It is good clean FUN!

3rd and 4th graders in Equinox House participated in an integrated project using math, science, and art skills. School gardener Mr. Andrew, enrichment teacher Ms. Milks, Art teacher Mrs. Baker, and TA Ms. Amanda have teamed to combine their specialties in this fun and unique project. Working in groups, students learned to make soap and created their own unique formula. They used a natural base (olive oil, shea butter, etc), garden herbs, and organic essential oils and learned what each herb and oil smells like and what benefits they have on the skin.

3rd & 4th graders learn about Henry Moore

In Exploratory Arts, 3rd and 4th graders learned about English sculptor Henry Moore by researching in the Tech Lab. In the Art room, they created their own Henry Moore inspired soap sculptures! Art Rocks at Williston Central School!