Lake Ridge Academy
North Ridgeville, Ohio
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School Gallery
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Summer Art Camp (19 artworks)
Jun 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Summer Vacation (3 artworks)
Jun 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Magazine Drawing (13 artworks)
Jun 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Shoe Drawing (5 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students practice drawing what they see by drawing their own shoes. Shoes have many little details that are easy to ski ...
   
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Still Life Drawing (23 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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What's In Your Head (13 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Cup Weaving (37 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned a basic a,b pattern for weaving. Students use a cup as a loom and yarn to weave. Students mimic how b ...
   
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Draw What You Hear (12 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Paper Weaving (15 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
After learning a basic, a,b pattern for weaving and weaving using recycled materials. Kindergarten used their knowledge ...
   
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Reenactment Weaving (15 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Bubble Wrap Weaving (7 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Coil Creatures (24 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Wheel Thrown Clay Pots (19 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Other Meaning (17 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Straw Weaving (44 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Recycled Weaving (14 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Picasso Dogs (33 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Abstract Animals (1 artwork)
Apr 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Kandinsky (21 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Bottle Landscape (14 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Monet Water Lilies (21 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Cursive Name Creatures (21 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Contour People (14 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Kindergarten Pinch Pots (13 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Canyon Illustrations (22 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Self Portrait Sketchbook (17 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Kindergarten learned about artist Pablo Picasso. Students focused on his abstract portraits and the colors he used from ...
   
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Self Portrait Prints (26 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Fifth grade drew self portraits in class. Once satisfied with proportions students used drew their self portrait on sty ...
   
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Andy Warhol Prints (32 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
First grade learned about artist Andy Warhol and his use of prints. Students decided on one image and slightly changed ...
   
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Shading with Color (1 artwork)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Portraits (66 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Ohio Animal Prints (19 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Matisse (21 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Magazine Reflection (14 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Melted Snowman (4 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students brainstormed what a melted snowman would look like. Students used paper to collage their melted snowman.
   
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Holiday Lights (28 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Animal Collage (19 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Second grade learned about artists Romare Bearden and his use of themes in collage. Students used the animals that they ...
   
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Romare Bearden Collage (26 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Romare Bearden And his creation of collages. Fourth grade learned about various collage el ...
   
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Kindergarten Collage (22 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students used a theme to pick pictures to create a collage. Kindergarten learned about artist Romare Bearden.
   
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2D & 3D arrows (20 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook assignment
   
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Collage (1 artwork)
Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students have previously learned about Wayne Theibaud and his creation of cakes. Students used the theme of cakes and t ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students re-visited artist Wayne Thiebaud and his creation of cakes. Thiebaud focused on pop culture with his artwork. ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students have been learning about optical illusion art and two point perspective. Many of the students have told me, th ...
   
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Tree Drawings (3 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Free Choice (1 artwork)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Each grade learned about Aboriginal Art, and that dots are the most conventional symbol used in Aboriginal Art. Each st ...
   
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Pencil Shading (15 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Wire Leaf Sculptures (15 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Alexander Calder. Students combined knowledge of leaves from their classroom to the art r ...
   
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Art Party (10 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students with the most stickers at the end of the trimester for their whole class get an art party. At the art party st ...
   
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Monochromatic Cityscapes (17 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students used their knowledge of creating a monochromatic painting and tinted and shaded blue to create a sky scene. St ...
   
 
Charcoal Gargoyles (23 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students first created a value scale to determine light and dark and tints and shades. Students used their value scale ...
   
 
Wayne Thiebaud Cakes (2 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students took previous knowledge about artist Wayne Thiebaud and used oil pastels to create texturized and colorful cake ...
   
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Fallen Leaves (14 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Wayne Thiebaud. They discovered that Thiebaud focused primarily on popular culture art su ...
   
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The Great Pumpkin (29 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students drew a pumpkin from life. Students were asked to add a background, where the pumpkin might be found.
   
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Identification Tree (14 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students used their fingerprints to create leaves, their side of their hand to create the tree trunk and branches and th ...
   
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Whatchama Draw It Game (16 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Ceramics CCT 2012/2013 (147 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
After school ceramics, in the center for creative thinkers program.
   
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Junk Drawer (15 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Keith Haring Collage (34 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Keith Haring. First grade drew stick people and outlined them in a bubble to cut out Hari ...
   
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Piet Mondrian (22 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Piet Mondrian. Kindergarten discovered Mondrian's use of geometric shapes and primary col ...
   
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Value Scale (12 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students practiced using charcoal in the creation of a value scale. Students created various gradations by either tinti ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students, expanding their knowledge of color theory, focused on monochromatic colors. Students created a monochromatic ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Optical Illusion Art (22 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about Optical Illusion Art. Third grade also learned how color theory aides in the creation of op art. ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students created patterns and designs. On top of the patterns and designs students wrote their initials. Fifth grade t ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Jasper Johns Numbers (21 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Jasper Johns and his use of numbers in paintings. Students also discovered that Jasper Jo ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students reviewed 2-dimensional shapes verse 3-dimensional forms. Students took a sheet of paper measured 4"x4" squares ...
   
 
Andy Warhol Hand Prints (21 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Andy Warhol. Students used previous knowledge of the color wheel and their knew knowledge ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about artist Keith Haring. Students discovered that Haring used figures in his artwork and symbols. ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Secondary Flowers (35 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students used Primary colors, red, yellow and blue and mixed them to create secondary colors. Students painted a flower ...
   
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Color Mixing (8 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Altered Book (36 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students are creating an altered book by re-creating each project in their altered book. For example we have just studi ...
   
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Color Wheel (21 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Sketchbook Assignment
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students drew abstract shapes they then outlined their shapes with glue and waited for it to dry. Once their paper was ...
   
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Notan Paper Design (24 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students learned about Notan the Japanese art of using light and dark to create compositions. Students used cut paper, ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students once learning about warm and cool colors, and completing their sunset painting over the water, were able to cre ...
   
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Free Draw (2 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
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Aug 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Students reviewed the color wheel along with complimentary colors and warm and cool colors. Students used warm colors t ...
   
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Sketchbook Assignment (24 artworks)
Aug 2012, taught by Melanie Leonard
Expressive Lines
   
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Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
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Artwork Exhibits - 5 years ago (July 2007 - June 2008)
Artwork Exhibits - 6 years ago (July 2006 - June 2007)
Artwork Exhibits - 7 years ago (July 2005 - June 2006)
Artwork Exhibits - 8 years ago (July 2004 - June 2005)
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for this school year ... state nation
2528 artworks #39 #564
323 fanclub members #59 #870
162 comments #38 #489
91 artist statements #32 #461
  overall rank #26 #323
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This is an NAEA-member school
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Announcements
2012-2013 Artsonia Fundraiser!
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School Awards & Honors
  2006-2007 Leadership Award
Ranked #10 in Ohio (#272 in the nation) for overall participation among elementary schools
  2006-2007 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in Ohio (#204 in the nation) for fan club signups among elementary schools
  2005-2006 Leadership Award
Ranked #5 in Ohio (#36 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
  2005-2006 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #3 in Ohio (#55 in the nation) for art published among all schools
  2005-2006 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in Ohio (#79 in the nation) for fan club signups among all schools
view all awards (18 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Rohan316
awarded on 11/20/2012
 Norah79
awarded on 12/19/2012
 Samantha9984
awarded on 10/16/2012
 Sophia3429
awarded on 10/26/2012
 Charles3038
awarded on 11/1/2012
view all awards (137 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
Lauren, Your cup weaving art is beautiful. Gram can't wait to see it. Love you, Gram -- Debbie
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Awesome Rohan!!!!
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good work rohan!
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Recent artist statements ...
a robot made of circles and triangles
written by Carter1107
a happy prairie dog on a boat under a rainbow.
written by Angelica994
A tiger wearing glasses riding a skateboard in a park.
written by Isabella5607
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