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School Gallery
Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
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May 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
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May 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
In this lesson students were introduce to the variety of subject matters that artist use when painting. This is a landsc ...
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May 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
After reading Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are", first grade students made a picture of themselves as th ...
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May 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Fourth grade students used a variety of paper materials to create a collage of what the music "looked" like to them. Wa ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
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Apr 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Students learned about the architectural wonder, st. Basil's cathedral in Moscow Russia. Inspired by the magnificent des ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
This quick two day art lesson reenforced students' spacial understanding of top, middle, bottom and small, medium, and l ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Fifth grade students learned how to create a city using one point perspective.
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
This was a great lesson for my first graders to learn about symmetry and how to cut out a heart using a folded piece of ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Third grade students used acrylic paint to create their snow people. They then added creative features and accessories ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
After reading the story "Snowmen at Night", students recreated snowmen in the moonlight using oil pastels to show highli ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
After discussing pop artist Jim Dine's use of hearts in his work, students recreated his four hearts painting using oil ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
First grade student practiced painting hearts and mixing various shades of pink using red and white. Color was added to ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Fifth grade students used a monochomatic color scheme (a single hue plus white and black) to create these heart designs. ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
After learning about pop artist Jim Dine, second grade students recreated his paintings of hearts by using short brush s ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
Fourth grade students studied Gustav Klimt’s “Tree of Life” and then created their own winter version. Students created ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Karen Brennan
First grade students LOVE to make collages. It is a wonderful opportunity to be creative! Students used construction pap ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
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Dec 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
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Amate Bark Art
(63 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
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Dec 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
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Nov 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Nov 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
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Nov 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
All classes are learning about the abstract artist Kandinsky and his series of paintings titled "Composition" as a schoo ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Students primarily used neutral colored oil pastels to create these stunning owls. In third grade we study various color ...
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Paper Owls
(111 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Students enjoyed using various shapes to create these fabulous owls. Students focused on the art element of texture as t ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Fourth grade students used oil pastels to create these beautiful pictures. Students used the moon as a light source for ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
The third grade students drew geometric shapes (triangles) and organic shapes (leaves) with crayons and watercolored on ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Students created a fall watercolor landscape using perspective. Leavings blowing in the wind were painted larger the clo ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Second grade students used color stixs and watercolor paints to create these beautiful pictures. The objective of the l ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
First Grade students created pumpkins by painting paper all warm colors and leaves all cool colors. They used stencils ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Students drew from a still life set up in the art room. They were to make their drawing as realistic as possible. They ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Students created these great scarecrows using craypas, paint, straw and construction paper. Their favorite part was maki ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Artwork created by students at home.
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Fifth grade students learned how to make various types of graffiti letters and then created their name in their own uniq ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
4th grade students created positive space out of the background negative space and created negative space out of their p ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
This was our very first art lesson of the year! Students made their name in to a work of art. Students wrote their names ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
Second grade students created their name in bubble letters then filled in the background with various patterns and color ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Karen Brennan
First grade students learned how to make bubble letters and used markers to add color to their name. They then filled t ...
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Mar 2013
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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)
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| Ranking |
grades: |
all | elem | mid | high |
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2568 artworks |
#28 |
#474 |
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410 fanclub members |
#42 |
#595 |
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540 comments |
#6 |
#74 |
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609 artist statements |
#5 |
#66 |
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#13 |
#151 |
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2552 artworks |
#22 |
#402 |
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409 fanclub members |
#32 |
#521 |
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539 comments |
#5 |
#64 |
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605 artist statements |
#5 |
#50 |
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overall rank |
#13 |
#147 |
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0 artworks |
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#123 |
#1706 |
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0 artworks |
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#45 |
#953 |
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School Awards & Honors
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2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #3 in Illinois (#107 in the nation) for artist statements collected among all schools
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2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #3 in Illinois (#81 in the nation) for artist statements collected among elementary schools
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Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
Recent visitor comments ...
| Ashley, I like looking through your porthole. I can see a mermaid, a deep sea diver, a dolphin, a turtle, a jellyfish, a fish, an anchor, and the bottom of the ocean. It is like looking into another world. Nice colors and design. Keep up the good work.
-- Kathyleft for Ashley14686 | | Lydia, I love to see all the beautiful artwork you have done! You are a great artist!
-- Pamleft for Lydia1922 | | These are all the fish we saw at the Shedd! Looks like one of the exhibits by the sharks!
-- Mommyleft for Mitchell2336 |
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Recent artist statements ...
| I like this artwork. Color is good.written by Kevin8427 | | I like my snowman because it has many colors.I also like it because it has the colors of my favorite football team.It is also cool because I blended colors.I used Oil pastels too.written by Ben6494 | | my favorite of this art work is just the snowman and i learned that you can use oil pastel and rub it in to make it look like a reflection of the sun or moon my snow man's name is Erik i named him after me have you heard the story snowman at night? my favorite part is when they sled with out a sled instead they use there self.written by Erik1285 |
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