Art Studio Learning Link

Greetings from the Art Studio!

It’s great to be back in our own space and to have the sunshine streaming in our studio windows!  After a restorative vacation artists are busy learning all around the studio.

Our youngest learners have all studio centers open and are making plans, solving problems, sharing their work and cleaning up.  Artists make plans and artists can change their plans.  Perseverance and problem solving are tested and grow through the arts!

First grade is constructing their box town.  We will be working on this for many weeks and then children will join together to play with their own community!

Second graders are finishing up open projects and sharing their ideas and observations with others. 

Third grade is in the process of illustrating their own stories which will be on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum for our school wide family day in April.

Fourth graders continue to learn about printmaking techniques.  Our students love to mono print and experiment with color and texture!

March is Youth Art Month.  YAM celebrates the arts in schools and the creative ways children express their thoughts and feelings through the arts.  The Spotlight on the Arts Visual Art Show is on display in the Crane Room at the Berkshire Museum.  Eight students from Muddy Brook are representing our school in the show.  The exhibition will be on display throughout the month of March.

I hope you had a chance to read the wonderful article about our students’ Random Art of Kindness that was in the Berkshire Record.  A copy of the article is on display on the bulletin board in the main hall if you missed it.

March is a wonderful time to reflect on all the gains our students have made so far this year and to plan big projects for the next months.  Please make time for art play at home.  “Play is the work of childhood.”- Mr. Rogers

Artfully Yours, Ms. Benton