Art Studio Update

Artists have been busy thinking and learning with and through art exploration in the Muddy Brook art studio!  

Pre-K art explorations

Drawing, painting and collage are established studio centers at all grade levels.  Older students have had the choice to work in 3D at the supply center as well.   Younger grades will transition to 3D art making soon through puppetry and artistic play.  Slowing down studio center opening allows students time to process their ideas and create artwork that is personally meaningful while showing their best skill, thought, and care (WOW work).

Next up we will open the architecture/building studio center and fiber arts!

Students have been discussing what it means to persevere, and what that looks like for artists at work.  We have been generating lists of ideas to use as inspiration in visual journals or as a class. J

Students’ are connecting art to their worlds and linking artistic solutions to other areas in their lives.  That’s what artists do! 

Artists checking the idea list for inspiration!

What Lifts You? Our Wings Mural

We have been working on a community project in the studio for a few weeks along with personal student-driven work.  Muddy Brook artists are working together creating a large collage mural inspired by the international street artist Kelsey Montague.  We created a display of our progress.  If you cannot visit the third/fourth grade gallery wall, just look below.  I am very excited to see the wings and learn what inspires and lifts our students and community!

A great big shout-out to art teacher Cassie Stephens of Nashville, TN!  I saw Cassie's kids great work on Pinterest, which started our studio's journey of learning and creating!  Artists and artist teachers are a wonderful sharing bunch!