To kick off our study of work in 3 dimensions the students completed a series of exercises using paper. The unit was based on three fundamental art concepts. The three exercises were given one class each. Students in the first class created a 3 dimensional paper sculpture that highlighted the concept of LINE, and the exercise had to be considered in-the-round (or from all sides). The work also had to stand on its own. They then repeated this process in the second class, highlighting the concept of SHAPE, and then again in a third class highlighting the concept of FORM. Presented below are the combined exercises from students who elected to present these pieces as part of their art show work.
As an introduction to their unit on the art of Islam and geometric pattern art inspired by the tile work often found in Muslim architecture students learned to use the drawing compass. They began with a drawing called a 7-circle rosette. They then used these drawings to understand how circular grids are made and how straight edge shapes can be created from these grids. Below you will find colored and completed versions of the 7 circle drawings made during these exercises.
While studying the concept of art in-the-round (or a standing work meant to be viewed from all sides) students worked with aluminum wire to create a sculpture series. They began by filming a short video of themselves performing some simple action, like jumping, throwing, spinning, running, etc… They then watched their videos back and took screenshots of 5 moments that showed their action as a sequence of still images. Using these images as reference, and after spending time looking at the concept of human proportions of height, they replicated the poses from their visual images in wire.
While studying the concept of art in-the-round (or a standing work meant to be viewed from all sides) students worked with aluminum wire to create a sculpture series. They began by filming a short video of themselves performing some simple action, like jumping, throwing, spinning, running, etc… They then watched their videos back and took screenshots of 5 moments that showed their action as a sequence of still images. Using these images as reference, and after spending time looking at the concept of human proportions of height, they replicated the poses from their visual images in wire.
Early in the second trimester, each eighth grade student was given the opportunity to explore any artistic style, materials, and/or artists that resonated with them. Students completed a brief description of their selected artist, genre, or style, then recreated one of their chosen works of art. Still in online class, they would use simple materials, such as colored pencils or watercolor, to complete the project, which would be a starting point for the art-making portion of their personal project.
In the spring trimester, each young artist created a small body of work reflective of their chosen inspirational art. Each artist began differently: setting up and taking photographs, choosing suitable materials, finding reference images, and/or considering subjects and concepts to be explored in their work. They sketched or outlined each of the images that they envisioned, working out any early issues before starting final work. Each artist’s ideas, concepts and techniques were discussed and refined throughout the art-making process. Finally, every artist wrote a statement to accompany their personal project, describing the style of their artwork, why they like the style, and what inspired them to incorporate it into their projects.
The personal project allowed young artists to use all of their art experiences to create a body of work for their eighth grade art show. Enjoy the gallery!
Every year, my family and I go to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod. We stay at the same house each time we go, which is on a beach. This is the beach I have spent the days of my summers on since I was a baby, and I have countless memories from this beautiful place. I chose to paint these pictures to represent how grateful I am for the memories of this beach and being able to come here every summer. These photos are from 2012, 2014, and 2017. I recreated three pictures of this beach in watercolor, which happens to be one of my favorite mediums to work in. One of my successes in this project was painting the sky. In each painting I enjoyed recreating the sun and sunsets in these photos. This project helped me realize how fortunate and grateful I am to have the opportunity to go to this wonderful place. One of the difficulties while making this project was getting the colors right. It took me a while to match the watercolors to the one of the photo. A success of mine in this project was the way the skies in all three paintings.
For my personal project I decided to go with the theme of “letting go”. At the beginning of the year I wasn’t sure of what to do so my personal project went from paintings to drawings. Then when I finally came to a decision it was just drawing in general, with no limitations. I ended up making 4 drawings that are small silhouettes in a outlined circle that can be perceived to represent “letting go”. First I started with making a sketch of the small silhouette then coloring it in with black sharpie, and for one some there is a small emphasis of color.
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Ana Curry (Personal Project #2)
For my personal project I also did some anatomy drawings. Including the human hand, knee, and face. Although they aren’t as detailed as I would like, I spent a while trying to get the muscle structure semi-correct. As I said before, my personal project is all over the place, from paintings to drawing. After I drew the first two silhouettes I decided to try drawing the anatomy of a human. I started with the human hand, then later after the silhouettes decided to pick up on the anatomy drawing I started. I then drew a knee and a face. All of the anatomy drawings are drawn with a pencil, just as a sketch.
For my project, I will make a series of Basquiat inspired pieces. One will be done by paint markers, one by paint, and the other will remain a pencil drawing. To resemble an iconic Basquiat painting, the three pieces will depict a skull-like figure with doodles surrounding. I plan to use contrasting colors for color pops in the two colored drawings. And In regards to my pencil drawing, I will draw a standing figure using one of Basquiat’s common tricks, the scar, like so: —–|—|—|—-
I am choosing to make Basquiat inspired pieces because it brings me back to that moment on the couch with my mother reading a book together; it brings me back to a simpler time in my life. For my final piece, I wish for it to look inspired off of Basquiat, but for it to look like something I’d do. I want to have stayed true to myself in the project, and craft something I am proud of.
I have chosen 3 scenes, each from a different movie animated by Makoto Shinkai, and I am then planning to color them with colored pencil or watercolor depending on which fits. I wanted to illustrate and recreate scenes from Shinkai’s work because I think that they are beautiful and intricate, and I want to try to recreate them using media other than computer software.
Each of my pieces has similarities and differences. The first one I made, the only one with black, was based on a work by Frank Stella. His piece was similar to this one. It had a different color scheme and had more parts to it. His was named Harran II. His had much darker colors, as you can see, mine is brighter. I had trouble with having each row be the same width as all the others. The second one I made is my favorite of the three, it is the one with only semi-circles. I like this one because of two reasons, one, this one has the best paint job with few mistakes. The second reason is how I could see this going on forever, these semi-circles in a never-ending pattern. The third one, the one with many circles was not difficult to make, but choosing what colors to use was. I wasn’t sure, but I think it turned out well. I learned a lot about how to use acrylic paint and geometric patterns. Each one shows patterns in a different way, how even if we don’t know it, there are patterns all around us. This is one of the best artworks I have made in my life, and the ones I’m most proud of. For each one, I had to start by sketching it out on a canvas, using a pencil, ruler, and drawing compass. Then I would begin to paint, trying to make a pattern out of the colors as well. Even as I didn’t realize it, I started a pattern by sketching, then painting, and all over again. And now I’m able to end this pattern and start a new one.
Liu Dan Artworks is a Chinese artist, and he does paintings and drawings, while some are large scale. He’s very good at multiple artistic styles and genres. He was first exposed to Western artists during the Cultural Revolution. He first copied the Renaissance era drawings, before he got any traditional Chinese painting techniques. During this adventure through art, his goals stayed consistent, as he tried to capture the true essence of his subject. The reason I chose him is because of the dynamic between ink and watercolor, and how his details are noticeable and stand out from the piece. I’m doing a twist where it turns into a colleague instead of a single piece, and it will be quite large scale.
I am making three paintings of my grandfather, my mom, and myself. The idea behind this is that I am going to be painting three generations of the Son family. I am basing my work off of South Korean artist Shin Kwang Ho. The paintings will seem kind of random because in his art style you don’t really see the person’s face. I am going to try to be very detailed when painting shadows and such, but when painting the face I will not make a nose, mouth, or eyes. Those you will just have to imagine.
I chose to base my art off of Banksy because their graffiti really inspired me and I thought that making stencils would be a really cool project to do. I was inspired to do birds, because I really love birds and they are very symbolic. I made my first stencil, a crow, because I was inspired by my patronus. I made the mourning dove because it really represents peace and hope. I made the kiwi bird because it is an endangered species and also my favorite animal. Overall, this was a really fun project to do!
For my personal project, I chose to recreate three of Vanessa Alotizoo’s works. She is from Thousands Oaks, California and sells some of her prints on Etsy. Alotizoo creates watercolor portraits. She mostly works in watercolor, but sometimes also includes pen and pencil. I was inspired by her work because it has a combination of realism and style. In my first recreation, I mainly struggled with the intensity of the colors and balancing the dark black color and the rest of the painting which is pastel. I improved on this in my second painting, where the contrast is much more obvious. I think my third painting turned out the best, and I liked how I was able to combine pen and watercolor. This project helped me improve my ability to have control over my brush strokes, especially with the small details in the portraits. This project was important to me as an artist because it was my first time painting in such a specific style. In doing this, I now have more of a sense of what parts of it I like and don’t like, which can help me create my own art style.
My second series of paintings is book covers that contain a woman in the center. So far, I am painting the covers of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Scarlet.
I decided to do three hard edge paintings. A hard edge painting is a painting where you can clearly tell the difference between the colors and their borders. I have been doing hard edge work for a lot longer than I knew what it was.
The goal of my Personal Project was to produce three unique pieces inspired by the work of Alexander Girard and Andy Warhol. In particular, I hoped to improve my knowledge and competency in silkscreening, Procreate, and InDesign. The most challenging part of the project, silkscreening, ended up being the component that I am most proud of. The process of silkscreening took multiple attempts, which I found frustrating but incredibly rewarding in the end. In the abstract shape design and La Croix pieces, I learned a lot about color after experimenting with different palettes. I learned about the importance of stepping out of my comfort zone, trial and error, and handling mistakes. These pieces feel deeply gratifying, especially my Pebbles piece because I finally learned to silkscreen after being interested in it for years.
My personal project is inspired by Henri Matisse. He did many types of art but is best known as a painter. He was one of the fauves. But in 1917 he moved to the country and when illness prevented from painting, he started to cut paper collages. My project is based off of some of his iconic cut-out pieces. In some of my art I’m just using common aspects and shapes from his work and bringing it in to mine, and in others I’m recreating some of his pieces with a spin on the color or some more specific things. There are three cut-outs in the set I created. The first is an almost exact recreation of one of his works, except I inverted the colors. The second is playing a lot with contrast, where I use this really common squigly shape from Matisse’s work to line the border in pastel colors, and the inside is filled with pastel bamboo trees. At the center is a black silhouette of an animal, contrasting the light pastel colors surrounding it. The final piece is in the shape of a stained glass window, just like my favorite of Mattisse’s cutouts. The piece is based off of that work, except it is entirely black and white, so the contrast draws the eye rather than the shapes. Throughout this project I learned a lot about ways that colors interact each other and how to create a natural organic shape.
I think this process was interesting for me, I went about it as a normal drawing but once done you would just kinda splatter water colors on it for a cool effect, it was really fun doing this and just using a technique and materials I’m not the best with. I think the hardest part for me was just that I was way too hard on myself. I wanted everything to be the same as the sketch but it would never be like that but I tried and some came out better than others. I started this thinking it would be easy but looking back it was not that easy, but it sure was fun.
These pieces are inspired by Louis Smith’s charcoal portraits. I started by copying one of his and learning how to generally use charcoal. After this, I took my own photos and used what I had learned to draw them. The first drawing I made is the copy of Louis Smith’s. The second and third drawings I made are of my sister, Anna. I have learned that I actually really enjoy using charcoal. I like that you really have to use as much pressure and pigment as possible. It is a lot of fun to not be so cautious the whole time. I have so far only worked on charcoal portraits, I would like to start trying different styles though. Portraits are very hard to draw though because of all the details and how different each face is, because of this I am not a big fan of drawing them. For this piece I only used charcoal, paper, and a blender.
The artist I’m doing for my project is Kaws. Three reasons I was inspired by his art is because I like the design of his work, I like that he has similar elements in all of his paintings, and I thought his art would be fun to paint. I am making watercolor recreations of his art. I have done new work, old work, and maybe I’ll design my own at the end of the project. The techniques I’ll be using are brush strokes, and I’ll be working on using a lot of water with only a little bit of paint to make really light colors. My final goal is to get better at painting smaller details like I can do with pencils.
I have learned a lot during this project, I learned to love to sketch and I learned to be more creative with my art. I used a football instead of an apple on my project because the football symbolizes excitement and joy to me and I wanted to incorporate that in my art. Magritte’s art is wild, and I love it. His pieces are unpredictable and even funny. I never knew that I could draw the same things as he did. So far, I have sketched two of my drawings and I have started the third one on a canvas.
Oil painting has always been something I wanted to explore; even since I was a little girl. I envied the master painters, the greats; Monet, Van Gogh, Degas. They were all oil painters. When I got to eighth grade, I finally had the chance to explore oil paints for my own. I made these two pieces as recreations of one of my favorite painters, Joaquin Sorolla. Once I introduced myself to Sorolla’s works, I knew I wanted to recreate them as a way to familiarize myself with oil painting. When making these works, I learned so much about not just how to effectively use oil paints, but about myself as a painter. My main medium before this had been watercolor, and jumping from watercolors to oils is about as drastic of a change you can make, painting-wise. I was introduced to a variety of new techniques and issues and things to think about that I had never had to deal with before. I learned how to blend oils and also how to make stark lines between different hues; I learned how to remove a layer of paint from the canvas and also how to layer it on thick in an impasto-like style. I connected with these paintings because even though they were recreations, they were my own; every single square centimeter of these paintings has been meticulously worked on and cared for. I loved working on these, and thought it was difficult and stressful at times, I don’t regret any of it.
For our eighth-grade personal art project one was informed to find inspiration in an artist or art movement that they will then adapt their own style towards. I for one am greatly intrigued by the Renaissance and the American Renaissance so I decided to seek inspiration from an important painter from the American Renaissance. Before I decided to make my own piece modeled after his work I had to sketch and practice the painting style which was very new to me. I picked one of his more random paintings and decided to imitate it, trying to understand the process in how he painted. It’s from this process that I decided to use an underpainting something that will change the outcome of my final paintings. But as stated by Aristotle “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” and seeing as john singer Sargent painted important people of his time period and people who were personally important I decided to imitate that and paint people in my class who are important to my eighth grade life.
For these pieces I used charcoal and paper. Before this project I had never used charcoal before and I was totally new to the art style. In the beginning it was really hard to use and I struggled a lot. Throughout this whole project I was learning how to use charcoal and perfecting my skill along every step. I have definitely improved a bunch while making these and I still have a long time until I master the material. This was really fun making, and I am glad I got to step out of my comfort zone to try something like this!
Looking back at my reflection at the beginning of this project I have definitely improved, as well as identified areas of improvement. Throughout my work I wanted to add contrast into my work, as well as get better as a watercolor painter. I thought I had succeeded in drawing larger figures as well as painting less messy. The other side of that is when I draw a large area made up of the same color it ends up very patchy because my watercolors cannot fit the same color for enough strokes, resulting in different shades of the same color. During this project I thought I got much better at drawing landscape and architecture. With all the drawings I was proud about how the scenery looked pre-color. My most proud piece during this project was my second one. In this one I didn’t have to paint a large area and was able to make the colors contrast by keeping most of the machines gray except for a few. Especially in this drawing but in general I think I got better at contrasting or at the very least making the colors pop out. By having mostly depressing colors like gray and black as the scenery and machines the colors were able to look better. I also was able to paint within the boxes much better than in the past. Despite this I think I have to work on mixing my colors so they won’t drift outside of its area (too much water.) As I said earlier I need to work on painting large areas which is the biggest takeaway I’ve gotten from this project. I think by keeping the areas drown to smaller portions I could produce better art, but I think I will continue to draw things with larger areas in order to improve. The point of this project was also to get a better sense of Korean everyday scenery (in the cities) and I think by researching and drawing different types of scenery I got a better understanding.
I have chosen Banksy as my artist. He does many stencils, and uses many different materials. I chose him because I have always been interested in stencils and his art I see on the street, and I also like using spray paint and the art of it or really material he does his art with. Banksy is a very interesting artist and is different from others and I respect that and find it cool he doesn’t show his identity and expresses problems in the world today into his Artwork.
I am going to make stencils because almost all of his work was stencils. Stencils are also fun to make and especially of an artist you like. While doing these stencils I will use different material and see which one comes out best and use his art to inspire me in making my own stencils, but I’m also remaking his to understand his style.
While doing this project I’ve had lots of fun and learned a lot about my artist and found it very interesting how he made his stencils all around the world. Sometimes I would struggle while making a stencil but I would have to be patient and make another and then it would be better. At first I didn’t know what a stencil was and how to do any of this. Now I know how to make one and find it interesting. I enjoyed this a lot because I enjoy making art and its my favorite class.
I chose to do these pictures for my fingerprint painting by Chuck Close because I love the NBA more than anything and these players mean the most to me. Basketball is all I do and I love the game so much that it keeps me going. These players I’m painting are my basketball idles and who I look up to when I play ball. That’s why if I paint them in the style of Chuck Close fingerprint painting it’ll mean a lot to me and it’ll have meaning to what I’m painting.
After doing this project I got to learn a new form of art that taught me a new way to see art. It was fun doing this and I will love to do it again as it’s a new thing to learn and a whole new way to see art. This changes my perspective on art as I now see how there’s so many ways to create something and they’re all different, unique and fun ways to create a masterpiece, just like what I got to do. Overall I feel like what I made turned out great and if I had to do it again I just know I’ll keep improving. So I learned something great out of this art and had a fun new experience doing it. I got to see a new perspective on art and found a new technique that I had fun using.
I created a series of photos that I took from my travels across the country. I wanted to show that you don’t need to have all the time in the world to capture a beautiful photo, and that you can capture a beautiful moment in any circumstance. When we took a road trip across the country, I was very surprised that our country was this beautiful. Living in the city, I have a lack of beautiful nature in my life. So I wanted to make the most of this trip, and try to bring all the nature that I can back into my life in New York City. When looking at my photos, I want you to notice everything in the pictures. There’s always one thing that captures someone’s attention when they first look at anything, but I want you to look past that, and try to notice everything. Only then will the picture truly come to life.
I decided to use charcoal as my medium. This was my very first charcoal piece. I actually had a lot of fun creating this one. It’s hard to see at first glance, but the shading is actually in the form of triangles, trapezoids, and other shapes. When I first started, I struggled with controlling how dark I wanted my shading to be and the charcoal kept on smudging. Despite all this, I am quite happy with how it turned out. To continue reading view Artist Statement in gallery >>
Over the past couple weeks, I have worked on two pieces that have allowed me to grow as an artist. The first piece I made was a recreation of Chuck Close’s self portrait, “Big Self Portrait” in pencil. His was originally airbrushed. I was inspired by his artwork to create a recreation of the portrait and one of my own. I think on both pieces I struggled a little bit with the scaling and proportions but I did the best I could with trying to make them as realistic as possible. Learning from the mistakes I made when working on these pieces let me become better at drawing hyperrealism. I think I succeeded in getting the values right and making the subject look like the actual subject. I’m happy with where both of my projects ended up! I think they look great and I put lots of effort into both of them.
I began my personal project using inspiration from John Stezaker. I was interested in his unique style of contrasting two pictures on top of each other with one being in color and one in black and white. This also reminded me of a good idea for a collage which was my original plan. The materials I used to create this piece were a polaroid camera, iphone, nikon camera, glitter glue, modge podge, paper, and canvas. All the pictures I used for the landscapes were taken from my iphone and most of the pictures of people were taken on the school’s nikon camera. Once all the pictures were taken I carefully edited and printed them out. I glued the pictures to the canvas in a specific position and then covered the whole canvas in modge podge. I waited for everything to dry and finally filled the empty white spaces on the canvas with gold glitter glue. I made this project my own by using images that contrast my Bali life with my New York life since they are both my homes and I care about them. This was important to me because it’s my final year at LREI and I am moving to a boarding school in England so I wanted to showcase my two homes as I begin to start my life in a new place.
For my personal project, I chose to focus on a colorful, city theme. I started with a Chris Riggs watercolor painting, because he has a very city-like style. The hearts that are meant to resemble spray paint, and if you live in New York you have definitely seen his artwork on the street. The easiest one to spot is the spray painted hearts on a black brick building. I also did a cityscape. This city is in circles because I wanted it to stand out. The black creates contrast so the spots of brightness are very noticeable. I also painted sneakers because I thought it would tie the two together. The colors in all the paintings go together, and there is a lot of pink and blue, with some warmer tones. I think the main things that make them related are the city and the colors.
For this Personal Project I decided to recreate charcoal drawings of landscapes. There is no specific reason why I chose to recreate these specific drawings but they all include the moon. I personally really like the moon, and the concept of drawing it. I used several different charcoal pencils to recreate these drawings as well as a blending stump, to make the value flow throughout the paper. Overall, creating these artworks was a great learning experience, and was able to take a lot from it. Throughout the years I plan to continue working with charcoal to create many other pieces of work.
My biggest success in my work was fishing it. It felt good to have all my work done, and that they looked good too. My biggest challenge was trying to figure out my message that I was trying to portray in my final project. I wanted the viewer to see the message without having to ask.
For my personal project I focused on photography. I choose Emma Summerton for my inspiration. Emma Summerton is an Australian photographer, who went to National Art School in Sydney, Australia. She works mostly with fashion photography, and pours love and intimacy into her photos to make them come alive. Summerton’s career shot up in the mid 2000s as she began to work with bigger companies such a Vogue, W, and others. I worked with a phone to create my photography. I focused on using a chair in the middle of a plain background to give an odd and different look. I used black and white filters to make a more dramatic effect on the photo and how you can presume the colors look in real life. I used to models, Claire Fleming and Jade Young. I had to put them in awkward positions but try to make them look natural and believable. While creating the photos I found it very fun to put the models in their positions because it was very unique and interesting to figure out what to do. I was inspired to pursue this project because I felt it put a bit of my touch and the models touch when taking the photos. There was so much imagination when taking the photos because you could incorporate all of your thoughts and ideas into what the picture portrays as well as how it could look to others. The ear struggled most in was putting the models into positions where they felt both comfortable and but look in a both awkward and non awkward in the final photo. I say this because it’s supposed to portray emotion in a way that is hard to describe so they need to look uncomfortable while they stay in their positions
The artist I chose is Andy Warhol, because I like his technique of using simple everyday items and elevating them into works of art. I appreciate how his art work looks simple, and I appreciate how even though it looks technically easy, it has details that contribute to the work of art. I’m planning on recreating this using Copic markers. When I complete this recreation, my goal is to be challenged in a new area of art that I haven’t explored much.
For my second recreation, I chose another work by Andy Warhol. I chose this artist because of the specific piece I am planning to recreate which is his interpretation of Mickey Mouse. I like this piece of art because it’s a kind of art that appeals to kids and adults. I like how this painting has bright colors that pop which aren’t just Mickey. I also like how Warhol chose a Disney image. He created a new piece of art based on Disney’s artwork. I plan on recreating this piece of art by using Copic markers. When I finish this recreation, my goal is to be able to draw something over and over again and to make my drawings symmetrical and identical..
For my personal project, I created pieces in the genre of portraiture. I have chosen portraiture since it focuses on detail, enforces realism, and challenges me to play around with different mediums. These pieces are people varying from people I know to people I wish I knew. To continue reading view Artist Statement in gallery >>
In the second trimester sixth graders begin a long project to deeply study a topic related to the Medieval Era. This study crosses their art and humanities classes, and sees them join a “guild” where they perform the bulk of their topic design, research, project design and presentation preparation. They are able to invest deeply in their subject area and spend a considerable amount of time on it. In art class as the guild work begins to near its end the students design a fabric collage, and through the use of symbols, design and imagery they visually depict something about their guild and guild project. These fabric collages get hung on banners together with the other members of their guild, and displayed during the Medieval Festival presentations. The collages presented below are individual pieces by students who chose to present their collage separately as a piece for the art show.
This gallery is for artwork that students have created independently while wanting to include it in the art show. All pieces shown here came from a student’s own motivation and exploration.
Howardena Pindell is an artist, educator and curator best known for her painting and multimedia work. She was a curator at the MOMA for over 12 years, and was the first black woman to hold that position. As curator worked to uncover the injustice and lack of representation of Black artists in the museum, while simultaneously experiencing these injustices and struggling to have her work exhibited as a Black female visual artist.
Her work over the years has explored many themes including color, structure, and texture, as well as intersectionality in feminism, racism, violence and representation. The students looked at some of her early abstract pieces in which circles were a representation of some of Howardena’s own experiences.
The students’ pieces were a product of looking at her work, and also the result of a longer study of color theory. They first explored the primary colors through a series of mixing, matching and color scheme exercises that each began with just red, blue and yellow. They then expanded on a single color theme by creating larger pages of color and mixed media materials like oil pastel, colored pencil and paint. From these pages they cut circles and arranged them in ways inspired by Pindell’s work.
In the second trimester, fifth-grade students engage in an integrated case study of Ancient Egypt, which is often referred to in the unit as Kemet, as that is one of the names that the people of the time period would have used (spelled without vowels as ‘kmt’). The word Kemet was a reference to the fertile soil deposited on the Nile River banks after the annual flood. This nutrient-rich soil made it possible to farm. The name “Egypt” comes from a Greek pronunciation, and the name comes more from outside the country than from within. We have chosen to use the name more common to the people of the land and the time than the one given later.
In art and humanities classes, students studied various topics such as the impact of geographical features like The Nile, job specialization, social stratification, religion, and the afterlife. The following art projects emerged out of these explorations.
Hieroglyphics and Cartouches: Students spent time looking at the visual language of hieroglyphics and hieratic, and they drew/painted a cartouche, or name plate, of their own name. This project served as an introduction to the culture of the era.
Caitlynn Hurst
Shaduf Models: Students studied early examples of irrigation systems and other agricultural innovations on the Nile River, including the shaduf. Students approached this project as a building challenge. They were provided with some simple materials (dowels, string, modeling clay, and some fabric) and sketched designs with the goal of creating a free-standing and demonstrationally functioning model, which they then worked to build.
Raya Connolly
Joshua Olusheki
Gisele Putka
Figure Representation and Jobs Within Society: The biggest undertaking of the Kemet study was a two-part project in which the students looked carefully at how the people of the era represented themselves in paintings and sculpture. They extracted key characteristics of the style, and they used these observations to build theories about their cultural values. In humanities, each student researched a specific job within the society, and they used that knowledge to draw and paint a figure performing that job in the style of the time period. This figure was then incorporated onto a background depicting the setting where that job would have been performed.
Wally Condos
Raya Connolly
Jules Lentz-Tawil
Jack Masamitsu
Amelia Mundy
Emmett Rapp
Noah Rosen
Ryan Small
Sadie Zaraya
Personal Artifact Projects: As part of their study of their societal job the students researched and created a replica of an artifact related to that job.
In the second trimester, fifth-grade students engage in an integrated case study of Ancient Egypt, which is often referred to in the unit as Kemet, as that is one of the names that the people of the time period would have used (spelled without vowels as ‘kmt’). The word Kemet was a reference to the fertile soil deposited on the Nile River banks after the annual flood. This nutrient-rich soil made it possible to farm. The name “Egypt” comes from a Greek pronunciation, and the name comes more from outside the country than from within. We have chosen to use the name more common to the people of the land and the time than the one given later.
In art and humanities classes, students studied various topics such as the impact of geographical features like The Nile, job specialization, social stratification, religion, and the afterlife. The following art projects emerged out of these explorations.
Hieroglyphics and Cartouches: Students spent time looking at the visual language of hieroglyphics and hieratic, and they drew/painted a cartouche, or name plate, of their own name. This project served as an introduction to the culture of the era.
Cooper Hofmann
Jacob Samuels
Shaian Udani
Shaduf Models: Students studied early examples of irrigation systems and other agricultural innovations on the Nile River, including the shaduf. Students approached this project as a building challenge. They were provided with some simple materials (dowels, string, modeling clay, and some fabric) and sketched designs with the goal of creating a free-standing and demonstrationally functioning model, which they then worked to build.
Sabina Kovach
Charlie Lawson
Figure Representation and Jobs Within Society: The biggest undertaking of the Kemet study was a two-part project in which the students looked carefully at how the people of the era represented themselves in paintings and sculpture. They extracted key characteristics of the style, and they used these observations to build theories about their cultural values. In humanities, each student researched a specific job within the society, and they used that knowledge to draw and paint a figure performing that job in the style of the time period. This figure was then incorporated onto a background depicting the setting where that job would have been performed.
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