our eighth grade program
Art
Students use sewing, design and problem-solving skills to create a mixed media doll. This project involves extensive planning and also requires a story that accompanies the doll. The doll heads are clay and students learn a cold, surface method of adding color to clay using pencils and watercolors. Drawing skills are used when making the dolls bodies. Students create 3-D city scenes in connection with their foreign language classes. They use clay and other materials to create streets and landscape elements for their cities, and they label the miniature city parts in the appropriate target language. During the spring, students work independently on artist banner and dessert projects. They choose their subject matter and materials, chose an artist to research, and create pennants incorporating the artist’s work and information in the overall design. The work of contemporary artist Wayne Tiebaud inspires students to create their own dessert artwork using acrylic paint, oil pastels or sculpt clay.