Art Lady

I found this in a very old recreational magazine/leaflet from cooperative extension.
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There are several different great Interest Survey’s both printable and on the World Wide Web or “in the clouds”.

• From MCAS.k12.in.us a one page printable student interest survey
• A 3 page printable scholastic student interest survey
• Learn more Indiana 5 different interest inventories (more career oriented)
• Kathy Schrock’s printable 1 page student interest survey

Teachervision has a great page on papermaking . There are also some creative paper making/pulp related lesson plans on the Dick Blick website. The Knox Gallery has another cool lesson plan.
In my classroom I used Arnold Grummer molds that I bought from Dick Blick that are inexpensive. I have had them for over 5 years and they hold up really well in the water. I recommend his instructional videos!

Definition – Papermaking is the process of making paper, a substance which is used ubiquitously today for writing and packaging.
In papermaking a dilute suspension of fibers in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibers is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibers by pressing and drying to make paper. Most paper is made from wood pulp, but other fiber sources such as cotton and textiles may be used.

Making Handmade Paper Video series on Ehow.com

Handmade Paper Pulp Mixing — powered by eHow.com

I am working on a Mandala page as I type.  Until the page is complete, here is the definition of Mandala from Wikipedia.

Mandala (Sanskrit: “essence” + “having” or “containing”, also translates as “circle-circumference” or “completion”), is a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.

In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one “to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises.”

In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective.

Lesson Plans from the Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University, my alma-mater.

• Who Cares for Art? Luis Jimenez a National Treasure
• Protest and Persuasion
• Images of Me

I first took a workshop by ALL FIRED UP two years ago. I have since fused flat glass pieces in my kiln. I am currently reading a book I bought on amazon.com called Warm Glass.  I am looking forward to making some glass pieces in a slump mold for Christmas.

Resources

• Molds for Slumping are available online at slumpys.com
• There are some basic getting started kits available at dickblick.com
• The Corning Museum of Glass is a great website. They also have a number of videos on You Tube (which is blocked by some school system’s software unfortunately)

I am looking online for learning styles surveys that I can use in my classroom. Here are a few of my personal favorites:

1. Do you know your middle schooler’s learning style? by Parents Magazine
2. Learning Styles Quiz from Petersons.com
3. Multiple Intelligences Inventory 80 questions (Limited to 40 users at one time)
4. What’s your child’s learning style? From the Greenville, SC school system
5. Left Brain, Right Brain Survey
6. Autobiographical Expression by Ruth Roberts

Thanks to Google the world’s best search engine for making searching fast!

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-16, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.
QA How-To Guide: http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/main/support/guide_contents.pl

QA Legend Video: http://atlantis.crit.indiana.edu/legend/new_legend_large.wmv

We have been hard at work in the art room at HAMMS.  My 7th and 8th grade majors have done a few fused glass pieces thanks to a generous donation by Ellenburg & Shaffer Glass Art Studio. My 7th grade elective students have been hard at work making contour line drawings. My 6th graders are working on touring the Elements of Design and are creating some very colorful shape collages.

Some of this work will be displayed at the Dixie Classic Fair in October. I have posted some of their work online at Artsonia.

Muslim mosques are rich with geometric ornamentation called Zillij. These patterns reflect basic Islamic beliefs as well as mathematical truths. Muslims see these patterns as being “discovered rather than created.”

Good website resources for Islamic Art

• Princeton Online – Islamic Art
• Islamic Tiles from Kramer Middle School
• Islamic Art and Geometric Design from the Met (.pdf)

A student from Curtis High School talks about her experience in the art room of her school and her religion.