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Artwork Exhibits - 2 years ago (July 2010 - June 2011)
 
5 - Organic Elbow Pots (31 artworks)
Apr 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at the glass work of Dale Chihuly, studying the organic forms. Then they created their own organic form ...
   
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Apr 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
after visiting the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, studnets researched artists and artworks to curate their own galleries. ...
   
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1 - Ceramic Fish (25 artworks)
Apr 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students created fish from a slab of clay by cutting it out and adding textures and patterns.
   
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4 - Coil Pots (64 artworks)
Apr 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned how to create a coil pot with clay. They learned the score, slip, seal method of attatching clay, and t ...
   
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3 - Abstract Print (57 artworks)
Mar 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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K - Rainbow Fish (1 artwork)
Mar 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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K - Letter Design (1 artwork)
Mar 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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2 - Rousseau's Jungle (63 artworks)
Mar 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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2 - O'Keeffe's Flowers (60 artworks)
Mar 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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5 - Nature Prints (123 artworks)
Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Studnets learned about the history of print making and how to carve printing plates. Inspired by Japanese prints by Hoku ...
   
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4 - Texas Wildflowers (55 artworks)
Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students studied the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. They learned about creating a good composition by filling the page. ...
   
 
3 - Western Landscape (70 artworks)
Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Inspired by the western action images of Frederic Remington, third grade artists created landscapes of the west at night ...
   
 
K - Hearts (46 artworks)
Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned about warm and cool colors. After looking at the artwork of Jim Dine, they made a grid of four hearts - ...
   
 
3 - Heart Notans (29 artworks)
Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at the balance of positive and negative space in the Japanese art of notan. Then they created their own ...
   
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Jan 2011, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After viewing a Chinese scroll painting of a tree branch, students discussed line and movement. They created a misty, at ...
   
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2 - Winter Cardinals (67 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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1 - Texas Starry Night (37 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After looking at Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" students made a Texas Starry Night by painting warm colors for the su ...
   
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K - Snow Families (49 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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K - Barnyard Animals (5 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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1 - Penguins (37 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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3 - Metal Fish (69 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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2 - Fall Vegetables (70 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at Cezanne's still lifes and learned about the elements of a good composition. They concentrated on draw ...
   
 
K - Impressionist Trees (45 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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4 - Texas Print (63 artworks)
Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
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Dec 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned how to use one point perspective to create the illusion of space and depth ina piece of flat artwork. T ...
   
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1 - Landscape Collage (39 artworks)
Nov 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students first created their own colored paper and learned how to mix all the secondary colors in the process. After the ...
   
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2-Whose Shoes? (57 artworks)
Nov 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students chose a character to depict and practiced drawing things close up by showing only the legs and feet of their ch ...
   
 
4-Texas Design (74 artworks)
Nov 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students created their won Texas symbol stencil and traced it multiple times using rotation, translation, and reflection ...
   
 
5 - Typography Design (74 artworks)
Oct 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at The Figure Five in Gold by Charles Demuth and discussed typography - designing letters. They chose a ...
   
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3 - Dia de los Muertos (73 artworks)
Oct 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned about Dia de los Muertos and the bones of the body. They also discovered that the human body equals 7.5 ...
   
 
K - 3D Lines (48 artworks)
Oct 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students creates a variety of lines in three dimensions.
   
 
Sep 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students leared about continuous contour and blind contour lines. They used a continuous contour line to draw their prot ...
   
 
K-Caterpillar Lines (46 artworks)
Sep 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students made a variety of lines using the colors of the color ...
   
 
1-Klimt's Tree (42 artworks)
Sep 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After looking at Klimt's Tree of Life, students learned about lines and pinated a tree with curling lines using gold pai ...
   
 
Non-Exhibit Artwork (2 artworks)
Aug 2010