The school year is off to a great start! This year I am teaching Drawing and Painting I, Drawing and Painting II, Architecture I and II, and Web Design.

We started with light fun ice breakers, getting used to the new rotation block schedule and helping students who were fully remote transition back to school. The first day I have students work on the Sumi Ink Club. Check out my Art of Education article about it here.

Creating a welcoming and relaxed environment that is comfortable for all students is the foundation of my classroom. When students are relaxed they will learn more, create more and feel more comfortable expressing themselves through their art. 

Here are a few of the works of art that my students created for  intro assignments. Enjoy!

'Name design for the cover of their folders. This helps me get to know the student names and helps us get used to the organization system and clean up process. 

After studying contour line we created a collage of the drawings and students added an art element. This great lesson is from Mrs. Moen in IG @artofteaching. She is an uber talented educator with fantastic lessons. 

Phil Hansen's Ted Talk " Embrace the Shake" is helping me reframe the challenges of this school year. I am seeking to "seize the limitations". Here's to a new school year filled with new discoveries and brand new Art!

Five original works of art created by Burlington Art Students were printed on blank notecards and are for sale through the online school store.

​The art for the cards were created by:

Matthew Collina, Class of 2019
Ryan Tortorici, Class of 2019
Manel Henniche, Class of 2022
Owen Kim, Class of 2021
Joe Trabucco, Class of 2021

The district website is updated and a great resource for school info. Be sure to bookmark this link 

​BPS District Website Link: https://www.burlingtonpublicschools.org

The Burlington Education Foundation generously donated funding for this artist residency. 

BPS has a fantastic tool to help us educators plan our lessons and respect students cultural and religious holidays.

Here is the link to the calendar:

BPS Cultural Calendar

When an assignment is completed you will need to take a high quality photograph of your artwork. 
Here are some tips:

• Use the best camera you have (iPad, phone or teacher's camera)
• The artwork should be neat, not folded or damaged
• Hang the art on a flat wall or place on an easel
• Set up art with light that is consistent and equal over the entire work of art (no shadows)
• Make sure that your camera is parallel to the image
• Take more than one photo and compare them
• Check you pictures and select the most accurate one
• Crop and straighten your work in photo editing app

Turn In the Photograph 

• save the image to your google drive folder for this class (create one if you have not already)
• name the file with the name of the assignment
• place the picture into your drive folder. DO NOT KEEP IN YOUR CAMERA ROLL
• go to google classroom and turn in your assignment

Photograph before edits- DO NOT TURN IN A PHOTOGRAPH LIKE THIS!

High Quality Photograph of artwork

What happens when you put middle school students together to create art? You have a fantastic all day art making blast! 

These students created tons of art during our art camp. They explored different media and had fun playing. We even had a few competitions creating the tallest hat and the tallest tower. 

This was a very special group of students that we can't wait to have in high school someday! It was wonderful to see so many friendships develop through out the camp days. 
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Special thanks to our two camp counselors Sydney and Anthony!