Arts




Art - Susan Entin


A giant walking dog, Victorian house collages, and kachina dolls, are just a few of the many projects the art students in PS. 203 created this year. Art class is a great opportunity for students to use their creative imaginations and problem solving skills. How do you get your best idea? How do you make that idea come to life? By studying artists such as Grant Wood, Wang Yani, Henri Matisse, and Romare Bearden, students learn how artists work.Students also learn about colors, line, texture and composition. Practicing different media such as pencil drawing, oil pastels, water colors, tempera and printmaking enables students to have the technique to execute their ideas.

One of this year's high pints of student artistic endeavors was their Lunar New Year projects. Each first grade student created a colorful pig puppet that all grades performed with. With the help of art students, a giant pig puppet was constructed and decorated. The puppet required three student puppeteers to operate its movement. Students from the Art Club wrote Lunar New Year memories and illustrated them with large tempera paintings.

Students created entrance hallway installations. Some other projects were fifth grade self-protraits, sculpto-pictoramas, memory paintings and bird drawings and paintings for the APEC Arline Thomas Urban Literacy/Arts Contest.

Computer Graphics

Students will be using computers throughout their school careers to create all types of reports and projects for school. How will their work look? How can you best present visual material? The focus of computer graphics is for students to learn how to design and create art with technology.Students learn about the elements of art, such as line, shape, color and tecture and also look at the works of artists. Students learn how to organize visual elements on a page to catch a viewer's eye and to be readable. What is typeface?Which fonts do you use and what size? These are just a couple of the questions students learn to ask themselves when designing a project.

Some of the major projects students created were made on the program KidPix.