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Mystery Artist Clues for August/September:
1. He was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, IL. before moving to Marceline, Missouri a few years later. He was the 4th of 5 children.
2. After Deciding to become an artist, he struggled with various art related jobs until he took a job at a Slide Company making animated commercials. Although he didn't stay with this job long, it opened his eyes to the world of animation.
3. His first animated cartoon was completed on November 18, 1928, titled Steamboat Willie. This animation launched his career and mad a certain cartoon character famous.
4. While entertaining his daughters on a Sunday afternoon, he wondered why no one had invented a safe and clean place that kids and their parents could enjoy themselves at the same time. His idea came to life and opened in 1955 in California.
3rd Grade: Wordle and Kaleidoscopes
To start off Art this year, we are doing a creative class/group project using wordle. com. Using www.wordle.net each class is creating a 'word cloud' to illustrate their definition of Art. Once this is completed we will begin studying radial design and begin folding paper to create a kaleidoscope design.
4th Grade: Absolutely Awful Alphabet Letters and Picasso Portraits
We began 4th grade Art by reading, The Absolutely Aweful Alphabet by Mordicai Gerstein which was recently featured at the Art Institute of Chicago. Students are using oil pastels to create their own alphabet lettered creatures. Once complete, we will begin discussing the artist Pablo Picasso to begin our next project.
5th Grade: Image & Me and Grant Wood Parodies
This summer I observed at art museums that many people zoom around just to see the 'famous artist' rather than taking the time to absorb an artwork whether it is famous or not. To begin 5th grade Art, I had students select an artwork from many I made available. They were to pick one they 'identified with'. Then student answered a small questionaire about their work to dig deeper. Following this activity students will begin learning about American Gothic by Grant Wood.
