New Art Room!

New Year, New Art Room!  This is our 3rd year here at St. Mary School with an Art Program and our 3rd Art Room.  This year's Art Room is upstairs and we have a sink!  Yeah!!  It is always a challenge moving all our wonderful supplies to a new home but very much worth the effort.  See for yourselves!

Before

After

Before

After

All room decor is created by our students!

We Love Color!

St. Mary's Art & Music Show!

On April 10th 2014, St Mary's hosted it's Annual Art & Music Show!  This year the students transformed the upstairs hallway into a tropical rainforest.  I must admit, I think we surprised ourselves, take a look!

5th Grade Toucans

View of Hallway

1st Grade Painted Paper Butterflies

2nd Grade Painted Paper Spiders

One of the many Mini-Murals created by our 4th & 5th grade artists

Snakes were a favorite!

Students created foliage and animals of the Rainforest

Some of our fabulous 6th graders showing off their beautiful Chameleons

6th Grade Colorful Chameleons!

4th Grade Kings of the Jungle! (Lions don't actually live in the rainforest, but they were fun to draw!)

7th Grade created these amazing chalk pastel Tree Frogs

8th Graders were given the challenge of basing their compositions off a Henri Rouseau painting.
The results were stunning!

Another 4th grade Mini-Mural

All of the Art on these walls were created in groups.

Breathtaking Waterfall painted by our 8th Graders!

Thank you to all the students for their hard work and our faculty for their patience as we took over the walls of St. Mary School! My main objective in creating this themed Art Show was to give the students the opportunity create something bigger than themselves they could be proud of.  Every student created an individual piece of art as well as worked in groups to draw & paint the amazing tropical rainforest leaves, flowers and animals that make the jungle come to life! Our students came together as a community to create a truly beautiful work of art. So Proud!

St. Mary's Art and Music Show!

It's that time of year again and this year is going to have more artwork than ever!  The students here at St. Mary School have been hard at work for the last few weeks painting up a storm!  This year student's artwork will be hung art gallery style in the downstairs hallway of the school.  But, come to the upstairs hallway to be transported to a Tropical Rainforest!  Experience the animals as well as the surroundings of this very special place on our Sacred Earth.

In July 2013, at the World Youth Day event in Brazil, Pope Francis made a plea to the the world for the amazon region and it's people.  He calls for "respect and and protection of the entire creation which God has entrusted to man." This creation, he said, should not be "indiscriminately exploited, but rather made into a garden."

Students not only have been learning about artistically creating the plants and animals of the rainforest, but biodiversity and conservation of the region as well. A donation bin will be available at the show to raise enough money to symbolically adopt one of the endangered species of the rainforest.  Come and See Us!

Students working together to create the rainforest

Life in St. Mary's Art Room

I thought I would post a few candid pictures of what goes on in our Art Room on a typical day.
As you can see for yourself, much creativity and lively spirits fill these walls!

3rd Grade busy painting their Canadian Moose!

5th and 6th grade enjoying the creative process.

7th grade painting the colorful yet serene Northern Lights

8th grade worked together in groups to design & create unique "Whoville" type Gingerbread Houses.
Unfortunately, due to snow delays and Christmas activities, many of their amazing design never got completed before Christmas.
Never fear, it is the creative process that is important!

Art Auction at Christmas Bazaar!

Hello St. Mary's families, be patient as I am about to try to update this blog from the past 3 months!  I will do my best to keep things in order, so... here we go!

Last November St. Mary's held it's very first Art Auction and what a success it was!

Each class created a one of a kind masterpiece together and the results could not have been more stunning!  The bidding war was on during our annual Christmas Bazaar and with the huge help of Mrs. Kim Spina, the auction raised over $1000 for St. Mary's

Some of the beautiful framed art work for auction created by our talented students!

Finger Print Paintings, Hand-Dyed Tiles and Multi-media Collage
were among the many works of art

The Creative Process!