GCS Art Competitions 2016

The following Irving Park students will have their work displayed in one of the following art competitions during March: 

Youth Art Month 

Superintendent's Choice Art Show

Central Office Display at Eugene Street

We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed making them!

STEAM Lighthouses by 4th grade

Thanks to a mini-grant from the Irving Park PTA, 4th graders worked hard to build lighthouses from clay in art class. Then they learned some simple circuitry and created lights from batteries and recycled Christmas lights.  Thank you Irving Park PTA! We had so much fun with this project and it wouldn't have been possible without your support!

This picture shows the kind of circuit we created.

Full STEAM ahead!

This fall our school received an art teacher grant from ArtsGreensboro to work closely with Green Hill Center for N.C. Art on several projects.  The grant allowed all of our 3rd grade students to visit an exhibition called Microcosm.  In the exhibition, artists integrated science with art. Students saw everything from bug portraits (using a scanning electron microscope) to bacteria culture art.  Each third grader also created a Cyanotype print in the art room and then they each saw their own work on display in ArtQuest!   To see some images of the field trip, click here:

3rd grade Cyanotype prints on display at Art Quest

Later this fall, all teachers from Irving Park Elementary visited Green Hill for a two part workshop.  We learned some best practices for integrating art into core curriculum with science, math and technology and experimented with fun new projects like gelatin printmaking, chromatography and using iPads as microscopes for "Macrophotography." Here are some pictures from the workshop.

Here are our 3rd graders hard at work in the art room using their new iPad microscopes to make abstract art from leaves.  Enjoy!

Animations by 4th and 5th graders at Irving Park Elementary

We are going to make our own animations in art class this week!  

To make your own Flip Book animation, click here!

Student Animations of Art Class Procedures  

Please push in your chairs when you line up. (By Lauren)

   
Enter and exit with your Mona Lisa smile! (By Hannah)

   
Here is another Mona Lisa smile!

   
This one shows you how to play the "Teacher Talking" game!

   
This is a bus safety example by Mrs. Podracky.

 Here are some more that are just for fun!

 
A yummy cupcake!
 
Bouncing ball take 1!

   
Hot dogs by Andrew and Omar!

   
A snake!

   
Names

  
Soccer goal by Francisco!

A bouncing ball and LOL by Jeremy!


   
Flying Pterodactyl by Eric!
   
Slam dunk!


   
Weird Burger!


 
Sunshine!




 
Abstract art!


   
Silly soldiers


 
A puppy dog!

   
Students in class.

 
Teacher Talking!

 
Spots Gone Wild!

 
Pewdiepie!


 
Rainbow

 
Love
 
Flashing food


 
Weird Rainbow Dots!

 
This one is an example by Mrs. P just for fun! If you want to make your own, scroll back to the top and click the link under the first example.

 We hope you enjoyed our animations! If you want to add one for this blog, use the tag "Podracky" when you save it and I will be glad to add it to the bunch!