Community Circle Painting

 

Community Circle Painting

For our Art and music Week Extravaganza community project students and their families created "Circle Paintings". It was so fun seeing parents painting with their kids! And the results were beautiful!

So what is Circle Painting? It’s a creative process in which a group of people come together and create a collaborative painting. The process is simple, but the result is quite amazing! To make one you and your friends draw lines and shapes and build on each other’s.

1. Why Circles?
The circle is a universal symbol everyone can relate to. Simple yet profound, it symbolizes wholeness, enlightenment, and the universe in all cultures. For us, the circle means connect, create, and celebrate. What does the circle mean to you?

2. How did Circle Painting get started?
Hiep Nguyen created the first Circle Painting when he returned to his native country Vietnam in 1999. Driven by his desire to connect with neighborhood children in the mountain town of Dalat,  Hiep invited them to paint circles with him in his studio. To his surprise,  the children kept coming back for more, sometimes even with their friends and families. This experience inspired Hiep to continue exploring the circle theme as a way to create and connect with others.

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...

 

2011 Art and Music Extravaganza

Every year the music teacher and I get together and do a Spring show and fundrasier for the PTO. This event raises several thousand dollars which then go back into our programs. It's a wonderful evening for the celebration of the arts and to bring the school community together.