Fontana Jt. 8 School District
Fontana, Wisconsin
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These talented artists practiced their weaving skills with these decorated papers!
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
4th Grade artists were able to practice their mastery color mixing skills with these bright eyeballs!
   
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Mini Cities - 7th Grade (32 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Students used complex ink designs to create cityscapes!
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These artists created abstract art that was inspired by the artist, Miro who worked with overlapping shapes and simple c ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These artists created sun and moon plates to help them practice the warm and cool color schemes. They embellished them a ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These 4th grade artists created trees in a grid that helped to practice the warm and cool color schemes. Then, they pain ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
5th grade artists learned how to create a profile portrait within the style of traditional Egyptian art. These artists u ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These talented artists worked on learning the rainbow order by creating these cute little circle birds! Students also pr ...
   
 
Roy G Biv - Kindergarten (24 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These young artists learned the rainbow order by learning about Roy G Biv! We even listened to a special Roy G Biv song ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Students used photos of themselves as inspiration for these pop-art-esque self portraits! The use of ben-day dots and da ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Students investigated Grant Wood's original "American Gothic" and created a parody inspired by the original piece!
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These students created collographs by printing in the style of Jasper Johns. They also used an encaustic technique to cr ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Students recycled shredded paper to make these Green bowls! Then, they decorated them in the style of Jackson Pollock by ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
After looking at large images of flowers painted by Georgia O'Keeffe, these young artists created their own zoomed in ve ...
   
 
Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
In preparation for our Georgia O'Keefe Flowers, artists learned and tried a few new watercolor techniques! These were in ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These artists learned about the action painting style of Jackson Pollock and created these abstract works of art using m ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These talented artists practiced their literacy skills as they showed where they would fly, according to the book, "Tar ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Kindergarten Artists created these dynamic pieces by looking at the bright colors used in pop art style artwork!
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Young artists looked at the artwork of Jim Dine and used a variety of techniques to fill their page with color! The spla ...
   
 
Mar 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These young artists worked with collage to create these fantastic trees. They used special tools like straws to blow the ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These talented artists used their problem solving skills in order to write ART with art supplies.
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
As young artists learn about the elements of art, they added the important ingredients to their bowls!
   
 
Pandas - Kindergarten (21 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Young artists studied the shapes of pandas as well as adding their favorite foods!
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists created these awesome Picasso faces based off their own features!
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
5th Grade artists drew instruments from observation and focused on creating the details with just contour lines. They us ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These artists read the book, "Giraffes Can't Dance" where they learned about a giraffe named Gerald that really struggle ...
   
 
Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists began working with the printmaking process to create these symmetrical prints. We also learned how to make a rai ...
   
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Clay Frogs- 3rd Grade (20 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These funny frogs were created by 3rd grade clay masters. They used pinch pots for the body and added clay coils for leg ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
These young clay masters use clay slabs, coils, and spheres to create funky snails! Then, they attached wire antennas an ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Sarah Klein
To celebrate the 100th day of school, young artists practiced making themselves when they will be 100 years old!
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Young artists practiced printing onto their ornaments with tools like marker caps to create patterns and details. Artist ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
These talented artists used special tools like masking tape, toothpicks, and salt to create these splendid winter scenes ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists investigated the abstract style of Wolf Kahn. This artist works with nontraditional colors and soft blending of ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists used inspiration from Gustav Klimt's "Tree of Life" and added rich details and shapes to create their very own ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists used highlights and shadows to create ornaments that were 3D!
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists read the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and used paste paper created by the class to illustrat ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists created these winter penguins from cut paper, collage snowflakes, and drawn details! Creating these colorful pe ...
   
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Agamographs - 7th Grade (112 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists created two compositions that represented a "before" and "after" situation then took inspiration from the artist ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists studied the dot art of Australian Aboriginals and created their own art based around an animal of their choice. ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists read the book, "Art and Max" by David Weisner and learned about two chameleons that had very different personali ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Young Artists looked at the alphabet art of Jasper Johns and created abstract letter art by connected letters of differe ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists created a Fall-Themed sketch for their reduction print. They worked by printing each colored layer at one time a ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists looked at how objects change depending on what angle they are viewed at. They created the shapes of these trees ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists practiced the shapes needed to create pumpkins and added pumpkins all over their page to practice overlapping. T ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists gathered leaves on a nature walk outside and used their found leaves to practice creating texture from the fancy ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists explored the traditional custom behind Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and the decorative skulls that go al ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists marbled paper for their background and printed Styrofoam leaves onto the surface of their decorated paper!
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists were introduced to gelatin printmaking and the techniques they could create using the surface of clear gelatin. ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists were able to practice warm and cool color use while they created with suns with exaggerated features!
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists used inspiration from Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley to create their own optical illusions. They worked with ...
   
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Bright Frogs- 4th Grade (31 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists were able to use simple lines and shapes to create these active frogs!
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists created these illusions of depth with value of colored pencil. By changing the pressure of their pencil, artists ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists learned about the artist, Laurel Burch, who specialized in creating paintings with bright colors. Artists also c ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists were able to explore their creativity by drawing a Sharpie from observation and adding explosions of imagination ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists discussed the details that were used to create illuminated letters and created designs for their chosen letter!
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Sarah Klein
Artists use their skills to create funky birds that focused on using analogous colors for the background!
   
Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
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for this school year ... state nation
1985 artworks #40 #728
352 fanclub members #43 #760
73 comments #54 #967
28 artist statements #49 #846
  overall rank #30 #562
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Announcements
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School Awards & Honors
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #6 in Wisconsin (#176 in the nation) for comments posted among middle schools
  2004-2005 Leadership Award
Ranked #9 in Wisconsin (#337 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
  2004-2005 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #8 in Wisconsin (#268 in the nation) for fan club signups among all schools
  2004-2005 Comments Award
Ranked #9 in Wisconsin (#314 in the nation) for comments posted among all schools
  2004-2005 Leadership Award
Ranked #9 in Wisconsin (#269 in the nation) for overall participation among elementary schools
view all awards (7 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Anna6361
awarded on 3/8/2013
 Mitchell158
awarded on 2/22/2013
 Sage540
awarded on 12/28/2012
 Daltyn15
awarded on 10/15/2012
 Genna29
awarded on 4/29/2013
view all awards (219 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
3G, so awesome. I love the soup art. Wonderful job! I'm really proud of you and your great artwork! Dad -- Kevin
left for Gwen318
WOW! Love the panda. Great work, I'm really proud of you. Dad -- Kevin
left for Sage540
Wish we had some pretty colored birds like that out here. You did good with your rainbow birds. -- Karen
left for Daltyn15
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Recent artist statements ...
watching heart
written by Daltyn15
rainbow birds
written by Daltyn15
Just looking at this picture makes me smile! I love the details in the middle of the flower and the colors you used! Good work, Sam. I love it!
written by Samuel3386
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