Calder Contour Portraits

The 5th Graders started the year by doing a unit on contour line. We used Alexander Calder's wire work as our inspriation to take our line "off " the page to create wire self-portraits. We started by doing continuous blind contour drawings of our friends to understand how with wire, everything had to be connected. It was amazing to see the student's personality come through in a media most of them had never used before.

Chihuly Inspired Community Project

This year during Hosmer's Art and Music Extravaganza week we are taking our "green" initiative to a new level. Inspired by the glasswork of Artist Dale Chihuly, students are using disgarded plasitic water bottles and turing them into beautiful gardens of flowers. These gardens are on large sheets of plexiglass to be hung in the windows of our connector hallway. Together there will be 14 panels that measure 2'x3'. Here is a peek at the process...will post final project when finished.

Final Project pics...