St Maria Goretti
Madison, Wisconsin
Welcome to our visual arts gallery on Artsonia. Thank you for visiting and supporting the arts. The money generated through Artsonia will help purchase fine art supplies for our school. Please feel free to comment on the art you see as it gives great feedback to the artists. And if you have any questions about anything you see here, please contact me at school: kris.quackenbush@stmariagoretti.org Thanks for looking at all my artists' amazing art!
  
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists learned about patterns and reviewed lots of lines and shapes to create the decorations for their eg ...
   
 
Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
2nd grade artists were learning about the color wheel and how some colors are warm and some are cool. They created a wa ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Second grade artists learned how to create depth in a picture by simply overlapping objects. In this case, they drew ou ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First grade artists learned about the artist Mondrian and some of the compositions that he created using the primary col ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists were learning about all the colors of the rainbow and how they can be found in gardens, too. They ...
   
 
Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First grade artists learned about the order of colors in a rainbow and also about the many ways one could draw a fish. ...
   
 
3rd Grade-Depth Drawings (50 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Third grade artists learned that to create depth in a drawing they could use one object near the bottom of the page and ...
   
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Snowflake Snowmen! (41 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Second grade artists learned about geometric and free-form shapes and put them both together in this project. Of course ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
4th grade artists learned how to include shading in pen and ink drawings with sharpies. Lines that are closer together ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
4th grade artists watched a great movie on Vincent Van Gogh and then had a chance to use his painting "Starry Night" as ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
8th grade artists each chose a word that related to themselves and then illustrated it using a variety of materials. On ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First grade artists watched a fun movie about Mary Cassatt and the art that she made. They learned that her favorite su ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergartner artists learned about the size of people in their family and how to create them by using simple shapes. T ...
   
 
2nd grade-Clay Angels (38 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
2nd grade artists created these adorable clay angels using the pinch pot technique that they had learned in Kindergarten ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
7th graders learned about different architectural styles and began to design their own style and build it out of tag boa ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
8th graders read a book titled "Whirligig" and learn how the main character is asked to create a whirligig in memorial t ...
   
 
Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First grade artists learned about freeform shapes in nature and were able to choose a photo/picture to draw from for ins ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Third grade artists learned about positive and negative space and looked at some optical illusions that really challenge ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Fifth graders learned about properly proportioned portrait drawing techniques and applied them in these drawings of sain ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Another kind of line Kindergarten artists learned about was a broken line. They first played with the squares on the ta ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First graders were learning about how diagonal lines are in the branches of trees and how the branches can look like the ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists were learning about smooth and rough lines right around Halloween. So, we created a drawing where ...
   
 
K-Retro Line Collage (42 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten had learned so many different kinds of lines that I wanted to combine them into one project. This one is b ...
   
 
Kindergarten-Rudolph! (42 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergartner's created a crayon drawing of Rudolph with the addition of a painted red nose. We had these up at their C ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Sixth graders were learning about using contour lines to describe the outlines and contours of objects and drew a shoe w ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
6th graders used their names to fill a triangle of folded paper to create a complex design that would be symmetrical on ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
6th graders learned about blind contour lines and how they require the artist to look very closely at the object they ar ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
5th graders learned that the negative space in a drawing is the background, usually. And the background is usually the ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Second graders got to watch a fun movie all about Claude Monet and then created a painting using calm lines in his style ...
   
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Teacher Samples (3 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Third graders learned about lines creating shapes and drew from a still life made of objects in our art room. They then ...
   
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2nd Grade Value Pumpkins (38 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
2nd grade artists learned about color value and how to make the pumpkin look like it was glowing in a dark, dark night. ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
4th grade had fun coloring this tree and disk with crayons that overlapped and blended together because they were pushin ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
4th graders learned about the use of lines and shapes in Victorian architecture before they learned that they would be d ...
   
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1st Grade Calm Day Trees (48 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Calm lines in art are the verticals and horizontals that can be seen in trees and sunsets. Looks dreamy, especially at t ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
These might look like scribbles to you but they are so much more for artists. Gesture lines are continuous lines that s ...
   
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Neutral Color Landscapes (46 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Current 5th grade artists made this drawing last year while in 4th grade using pastels on sandpaper. Neutral colors wer ...
   
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2nd Grade Dream Trees (42 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
If you could have a dream tree, what would it look like? 2nd graders had a chance to draw their own Dream Tree using co ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
5th grade artists created this winter birch trees scene by first coloring in the background with pastels/chalks and then ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists learned about curved and diagonal lines that show movement and drew themselves or their friends on ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists were learning about lines and created a landscape with just three lines. Zigzag mountains, curvy r ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Third grade artists were learning about line variety and listened to music, "The Danse Macabre" while drawing lines acco ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
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1st Grade Linear Cities (48 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
First grade artists were learning about types of lines: smooth, rough, solid, broken, thin and thick and they put them ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
Kindergarten artists looked at examples of Navajo blankets and their designs to see thin and thick lines. They then pra ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
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Sep 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
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Sep 2012, taught by Kristin Quackenbush
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Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
Artwork Exhibits - 2 years ago (July 2010 - June 2011)
Artwork Exhibits - 3 years ago (July 2009 - June 2010)
Artwork Exhibits - 4 years ago (July 2008 - June 2009)
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for this school year ... state nation
2461 artworks #25 #521
779 fanclub members #8 #135
190 comments #23 #366
171 artist statements #22 #288
  overall rank #12 #164
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Announcements
2012-2013 Artsonia Fundraiser!
Help raise funds for the school arts program! Artsonia will donate 20% of every purchase of art keepsakes to the school arts program.   
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School Awards & Honors
  2011-2012 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in Wisconsin (#138 in the nation) for fan club signups among middle schools
  2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #5 in Wisconsin (#124 in the nation) for artist statements collected among middle schools
  2010-2011 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in Wisconsin (#154 in the nation) for fan club signups among middle schools
  2009-2010 Leadership Award
Ranked #8 in Wisconsin (#193 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
  2009-2010 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #9 in Wisconsin (#229 in the nation) for art published among all schools
view all awards (16 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Izzie9
awarded on 3/3/2013
 Joseph3040
awarded on 3/6/2013
 Kathryn1152
awarded on 2/19/2013
 Kenavan1
awarded on 11/30/2012
 McKenna1081
awarded on 3/6/2013
view all awards (256 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
What an amazing Rainbow Fish! I love the pattern you used for this cute little fishy! :) -- Mommy
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Emma, This is awesome! You are so creative and I wish I had talent such as yours. This piece of work is so interesting that I wish I could watch you when you are creating the drawings. Keep creating as we all appreciate your very beautiful and unique style. Love Grandma Sue -- Susan
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Emma, I am very impressed with your work. Some of your work is absolutely amazing and I had to study them several times. I wish I could frame the originals! Thank you so much for sharing. You are a most talented individual. -- Susan
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Recent artist statements ...
I like this picture because it reminds me of summer.
written by Noelle635
This took a long time to make!
written by Noelle635
I love my family. My dog Buster is missing.
written by Noelle635
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