You are welcome to come and visit an art lesson, volunteer, and /or donate items that can be used for an art activity. Thank you to the following kind people and companies that support our school’s art program with their gifts of materials and/or expertise.

May Events:

Better Hearing and Speech Month; Physical Fitness and Sports Month
1st; May Day; Georges Inness, 1825;
2nd; National Teacher Day
5th; Cinco de Mayo; Children’s Day
10th; Clean up your room day
11th; Mother’s Day; Salvador Dali, 1904
12th; Frank Stella, 1936
13th; Georges Braque, 1882
14th; Thomas Gainsborough, 1727
15th; Jasper Johns, 1930
18th; Peace Day
21st; Albrecht Durer, 1471; Henri Rousseau, 1844
22nd; Mary Cassatt, 1844; Jean Tinguely, 1925; Marisol, 1930
31st; Memorial Day

“…the child should be kept eager to learn and not be made disgusted.”
Albrecht Dürer

“Art is a form of truth.”
John F. Kennedy

June Events:

Great Outdoors Month; National Safety Month
3rd; Raoul Dufy, 1877
8th; Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869
12th; Anne Frank’s Birthday, 1929
14th; Flag Day
15th; Father’s Day
17th; Maurtis Conelis Escher, 1889
19th; Thomas Scully, 1783; Garfield (cartoon),1978
21st; Summer Begins; Henry O. Tanner, 1859

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which to keep.”
Scott Adams (Dilbert Cartoonist)

July Events:

National Picnic Month; National Ice Cream Month; National Recreation Month

4th; Independence Day
6th; Frida Kahlo, 1907
9th; Michael Graves, 1934; David Hockney, 1937
10th; Camille Pissarro, 1830; Georgio de Chirico, 1888
11th; James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834
12th; Amedeo Modigliani, 1884; Andrew Wyeth, 1917
22nd; Edward Hopper, 1882; Alexander Calder, 1898
30th; Henry Moore, 1898; Betye Saar, 1926; Luis Jimenez, 1940
31st; Jean Dubuffet, 1901

“A nation’s art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”
Edward Hopper

Reminder

Please return art materials by May 16th.

Some Creative Questions and Activities

1. Give each student a piece of string about a yard in length. Say, “Here is a piece of string. In one minute write down all the things you can think of to do with it.”

2. What are all the special days you can think of that happen during a year?

3. Name all the people you can think of, who were involved in the development of North America.

4. List all the things you can see from where you are sitting that could be described as being:
red, flat, ragged, long, soft, brittle,
green, used, round, artificial, expensive, indigenous

5. How many words can you think of that rhyme with bat?

6. Make a list of all the things in your house that take energy. How many of them do you really need? How many of them could you get along without? How could you save energy?

7. Cut a square (no more than two inches) from black construction paper. Tape each piece of black paper over a picture from a magazine or photo. Have students look through the holes and try to identify the picture. Be sure to number each piece and provide an answer sheet for students to write down what they see.

8. You just learned that in fifteen days you would go completely bind. What are all the things you would do between now and then?

9. What would happen if…there were no coal in West Virginia…the Mississippi river flowed north instead of south.

10. Which is more dishonest?

• A bank robber or a cattle rustler?

• Copying your neighbor’s work or letting them copy yours.

• A white lie or silence?

• Stealing a dime or a dollar?

11.Which would you rather be and why:

jungle or desert; “A” or “Q”; up or down
a flute or a trombone; good or bad; Arizona or Alaska
a letter or an envelope?; grass or a lawn mower
An orange or an apple; cow or a horse; noun or verb.