art lab news
may 2024 | room 219
ECO-ARTS Fest S2 Exhibit Opening Event & Cicada Olympics!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
🪰WHAT FUN!🪰
Thank you to all of the amazing volunteers and artists who made our spring eco-arts extravaganza such a delight---:). We couldn't have done it without you!
Special thanks and much love to our parent Arts Leadership Team exhibit volunteers---Sarah B, Anna B, Jennifer B, Katie B, Kate B, Kristin C, Liz C, Diip D, Claudia E, Joanne F, Mary G, Rachel G, Shannon H, Lucy H, Serena H, Beth K, Kimberly K, Greer LS, Terri L, Cynthia M, Rosa RR, Amanda R, Molly S, Jennifer T and Kelsey W. Thank you for donating your time, artistry, energy and spirit.
And a HUGE THANK YOU to Miss Julie:)!
You are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Gratefully,
Mrs. Vecchioni
WE NEED YOU! PLEASE JOIN US!
Community Maker Week is COMING SOON! Our Arts Leadership Team (ALT) will be hosting Maker Week 2024 May 28-31st this year! Please consider sharing your MAKER TALENTS with our students!
Please contact Mrs. Vecchioni if you can help out---organizing Makers, sharing your talents or reading to students about Makers changing the world---past and present!
Consider the week a little longer career day with a focus on ideation, innovation and individuation...sharing our creative spirit and ingenuity...
Maker talents include (but NOT LIMITED TO...): cooking, sewing, building, baking, gardening, designing, teaching, performing, writing, all musical arts, all dramatic arts, all visual arts, all engineering fields, all design fields, public policy fields, all craft-making and pretty much any hobby...What do YOU make?
Email me! alvecchioni@cps.edu or fill out this form: https://forms.gle/gwYCtNiCr4WPeEKCA
Creating A Public Art Installation with Room 217
Jayne King, Chicago Lives Artist-in-Residence artist, is creating a vessel to encapsulate Room 217's learning experience this year in a OOAK vessel dedicated to Waters Elementary! This vessel will be both honoring our experience and documenting the changes at Waters since Jayne's dad was a student here---in the 1950s! Her vessel will be on exhibit later this summer! Thank you Jayne:)!
We decided to make our own vessels to honor Waters and Our World...We will be creating our own cicada time capsules or vessels to document what we think Waters will be like in 17 years---in the summer of our next periodical cicada cycle!
Our predictions will be housed in a very large cicada public art installation in our Secret Garden...We are SO excited and plan to come back in 8th grade and see how our predictions are doing...What fun! Thank you Jayne and Chicago Lives for this community collaboration!
Thx Katie B for all of those plastic cold brew vessels...And Lukas J for all those plastic bottle caps...
This month in the art lab...
The Mighty Hexagon!
In celebration of all things gifted to us by Mother Nature...we are looking very closely at bees, hexagons and the ideas of creating our own space...and with ALT Maker Week upon us...thinking about being the architects (like our local honey bees and community Maker volunteers) of our future.
We are looking at the impact of green choices---bees' wax and soy wax as alternatives to parrafin---or kerosene-based wax. This is our final everyday example of making doable choices to change the world. We've also learned some amazing gratitude to our honey bee neighbors...and know why the hexagon is the perfect shape or vessel to store precious cargo...as we practice positive and negative space identification and open composition in our honeycomb patterns.
We've really looked at how we make, curate and design our own spaces in daily life and the importance of creating healthy boundaries in our all-grade read aloud A Little Space for Me (Olson). Students will be designing mini narrative safe-space hexagons to culminate this multi dry media pattern project.
The works are bee-autiful!!!
