LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE 2023

February 2, 2023

Waters Fine Arts

Main Lobby

2:30 PM

Featured Visual Culture: Sister Mary Corita Kent, Yuko Higuchi, Julie Taymor, José Guadalupe Posada, Duncan Tonatiuh, Joan Miró, Indigenous artways and Mother Nature.

Can't wait for our Spring Show...SAVE-THE-DATE: EcoArt Fest May 5, 2023!

Hello Everyone!

Happy 2023!

“The beginning is always today.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Throughout Semester 2, students will be looking at Jeanne Gang's nuanced blend of art and science in 3D construction. Ms. Gang is a Chicago native, female virtuoso and incredible Changemaker. Students will look at her work throughout Chicago and will practice different ways to utilize GREEN design in their constructions. We will be studying and blending the lines of conventional and contemporary art as we create public installations and personal artworks.

We will also be looking at Chicago's rich history and potential in A NEW Century of Progress: 2023-2123...We will look at the Chicago's Northerly Island as the site for the 1933's World's Fair and the Chicago motto: I Will! More information will be shared as we unpack our study. HOORAY!

Our projects will include working on a mural, mosaic tiles, landscape and 3D architecture---but we begin with Lunar New Year! 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit and we plan to launch our study of structure and form with kinetic lights and kites!

We are bringing back a beloved favorite--- COMMUNITY MAKER WEEK! Please let me know if you would like to share how you are a MAKER or CREATIVE (career, vocation or both:)) with our children. Please email me, alvecchioni@cps.edu

SAVE the DATE: LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE 2023: February 2, 2023! PLEASE JOIN US!!!

With Kindness,

Mrs. Vecchioni

Save the Date! LUNAR NEW YEAR LANTERN PARADE FEBRUARY 2, 2023!

Kinder kites will be all about koi fish and their long history as a symbol of goodness, new beginnings and posterity in China.

2nd grade lanterns will look at the animals of the Lunar New Year mythologies. We will settle on our study of this year's zodiac symbol---the moon hare of Korea!

3rd grade kites and lanterns will look at narrative storytelling found in the painting and poetry of Japan.

ALL STUDENTS, PreK-3 grades, will participate in our lantern parade. Students not currently in visual art class will be creating kites and lanterns also.

5th graders in Room 311 are leading our Literary Salon's Lunar New Year Reading Buddy Debut! We will be reading aloud with our Preschool Friends all about New Year celebrations around the world.

Reading buddies will be encouraged to bring their own buddy too---any Lunar New Year Zodiac animal stuffie! Potential animals: rat, cow, tiger, monkey, rabbit, horse, rooster, goat, dragon, snake, pig, dog.

6th graders will be creating haiku shadow puppet stories to create public art happenings (similar to Yayoi Kusama's Happenings in the 1960s) for 2nd and 3rd graders in our Literary Salon.

Our theme will be the Spring Festival. We will be looking at Indonesian shadow puppetry traditions. Parents are welcome to join us:).

Middle Schoolers will practice choice-based art making based on the Scholars' Four Arts of Ancient China (琴棋書畫; qínqíshūhuà).

Students will choose one of the four ancient arts of China--- string music (art with string/textiles), Weichi (game of Go---kinetic art), calligraphy (anime or chibi graphic novel), or painting (rice paper, ink and watercolor). Our Pop-up display will be featured in our 2nd Floor Literary Salon.

Middle Schoolers will also be our Lunar New Year Lantern Parade Ambassadors. Look for more information to follow.

JANUARY 2023

Check out some of the shows featured this year at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival (January 18-29, 2023). Puppet theatre experiences are available for all ages!

https://chicagopuppetfest.org/events/

This is a Tempestry Project bulletin board. It is an example of creating new ways to think about old problems. This interactive bulletin board demonstrates an attempt to make learning visible.

It demonstrates the impact of fossil fuel usage on global temperatures since the beginning of time. The warm colors demonstrate the speedy rise in overall temperatures since we began using fossil fuels. Data shows that global temperatures are constantly rising since the Industrial Revolution. We will be discussing this fact as we create our NEW Century of Progress Green Technology designs this spring!

Start saving your cardboard now...:))

Thanks to Ms. Rajska for teaching me about the Tempestry Project! We will be creating a variety of Tempestries this semester to demonstrate our learning! Keep a lookout;))!

https://www.tempestryproject.com/

Email: alvecchioni@cps.edu
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