Hooper Ave Elementary School
Toms River, New Jersey
Welcome to Hooper's visual art gallery on Artsonia. We are very busy working on our new projects for you all to see this year. Your support means a lot to us !

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Our art program will receive 20% of any purchases you make from the gift shop.
THANK YOU for supporting the arts and thanks for visiting!
  
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School Gallery
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Banyan Trees (5 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We created hard-edged paintings and learned all about negative space and color blending. Our trees look awesome!
   
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Lines in Space (11 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Spring Banners (22 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Falling People (42 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We created a sense of space and depth using foreshortening to draw ourselves falling.
   
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Giant Collage Flowers (103 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We had fun painting and collaging our giant flowers. They brighten up our school!
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
Faith Ringgold was our artist of the month. We learned about her life, struggles and her story quilts. We created our ow ...
   
 
Apr 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
You dont need to buy scratchboards once you learn how to make them! Our class learned to make homemade scratch boards us ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We honed our drawing skills by completing the missing half of a magazine photograph.
   
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Cherry Blossoms (98 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned how to blend colors to create a tint , at the same time making beautiful cherry blossoms!
   
 
Line Contrast (56 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We studied positive and negative space and used that knowledge for our creations!
   
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Mixed media Forsythia (99 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned all about symmetry and how to cut symmetrical shapes with our friend " Freddy the Fold" ! We used that shape ...
   
 
March Lions (9 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Warm Hearts (48 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Cat in the Hat Portraits (105 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We drew Cat in the Hat portraits for Dr. Seuss's upcoming birthday! We all think they came out fantastic!
   
 
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Imaginary Birds (174 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
Students took their favorite parts of birds and combined them to form a new artsy bird. We think you will LOVE them!
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Positively Me! (72 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
We created tints for our background and tried to use colorful words to describe ourselves! They all came out great!!
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Pop Art Hearts (99 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
After learning about Pop Art and looking at works from Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg, we were inspired to create Po ...
   
 
Kaleidoscopes (92 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Long Winters Nap (52 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
After learning about Gustav Klimt's life and looking at his beautiful artwork, we drew a sleeping person. We made a wax ...
   
 
Polar Bears (69 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Fun with Keith Haring!! (61 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Studying art history can be fun, especially with Keith Haring. We learned about his life and his style of art. We create ...
   
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Snowy Day (48 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We collaged a snowy town using different papers, shapes and paint.
   
 
Gingerbread House (59 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Picasso Faces (102 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned about Pablo Picasso's life and his artwork. We took a close look at his work, "Dora Maar", to inspire us to c ...
   
 
Chilly Penguins (104 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We viewed different types of penguins for our chilly creations. Many of us were inspired by the Macaroni and Rock hopper ...
   
 
Gingerbread Man (11 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Each Gingerbread Man is made with love and holds a special surprise inside his vest.
   
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Winter Wonderland (106 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Simple but beautiful. We used chalk pastels to create these winter wonderlands!
   
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Snowman Portraits (235 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
This is one of the "Hoop's" favorite assignments. We studied point of view before we created our close-up of a snowman. ...
   
 
Crazy Cacti (73 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We created our Crazy cacti with "payons",which we turned to paint and collaged cactus needles onto our designs. Finally ...
   
 
Oil Pastel Owls (98 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We used shapes to draw our owls and created a personal color scheme. We learned about layering colors to create a richer ...
   
 
Triangle Cats (42 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Symmetry was practiced to create our triangle cats. They look adorable sitting on the fence!
   
 
Mexican Bark Painting (104 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We studied the history of Mexican Bark Painting and created our own Bark paintings. Our Tress of Life are beautifully dr ...
   
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Textured Calico Cats (49 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned all about textures, real and implied. We created our own textured papers using rubbing plates. Students used ...
   
 
Watercolor Leaves (93 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned about cool colors, painting with watercolors and creating a wax resist.
   
 
Candy Apples (10 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We practiced cutting and tracing while making this sweet treat.
   
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Collaged Scarecrows (37 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We had fun using cut paper to create a personalized scarecrow.
   
 
Warm color Leaf (5 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Fall trees (9 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
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Mosaic Apples (5 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Fall is here and we made mosaic apples to celebrate!!
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
Students learned about Frida Kahlo and her life as an artist. They looked closely at her painting "Self Portrait with Mo ...
   
 
Self Portraits (52 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned all about portraits and looked at many famous portraits. We examined portraits by Picasso, Bacon, van Gogh an ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We learned all about portraits and looked at many famous portraits. We examined portraits by Picasso, Bacon, van Gogh an ...
   
 
van Gogh Flowers (5 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Sue D'Elia
We recreated van Gogh's "Sunflowers" through collage.
   
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Non-Exhibit Artwork (1 artwork)
Feb 2013
   
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)
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for this school year ... state nation
3110 artworks #14 #331
899 fanclub members #9 #92
530 comments #9 #80
107 artist statements #23 #388
  overall rank #5 #91
counts updated daily, last updated today at 3:05 am
 
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 Leadership Award
Ranked #5 in New Jersey (#38 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
  2011-2012 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #8 in New Jersey (#173 in the nation) for art published among all schools
  2011-2012 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in New Jersey (#90 in the nation) for fan club signups among all schools
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #6 in New Jersey (#48 in the nation) for comments posted among all schools
  2011-2012 Leadership Award
Ranked #4 in New Jersey (#36 in the nation) for overall participation among elementary schools
view all awards (21 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Julian1757
awarded on 5/6/2013
 Carly1462
awarded on 5/6/2013
 John5100
awarded on 2/21/2013
 Jack9844
awarded on 2/25/2013
 William5297
awarded on 4/22/2013
view all awards (397 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
James-you have done it again! B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! Love, Aunt Julie -- Julie
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This is so cool Jake! It really looks like you too! <3 Mommy
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Hey Katrien, I agree with Aunt Shell. This bird's beak is rather creative, almost like a jewel. I love you lots -- Mommy
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Recent artist statements ...
It looks like it is 3-D.
written by TorrieRae1
I like them because because I turned the hearts into something related to Medieval times.
written by Seamus112
I like that we could make and decorate however we wanted.
written by Rhiannon265
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