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WELCOME BACK JAGUARS!!!
(Make sure you put your first and last name on the back of ALL your art! Your grade and class period are also helpful to Mr. Niece.)
Please Congratulate 8th Grader KABE COPELAND on winning the 2017(and final) Greenville Recycle Truck Contest!
Great use of multi-media, contrast, color, and symmetry!
KABE's artwork will be scanned, and wrapped to the back of a Greenville Recycling truck! Awesome job!
Look forward to High School!
If there is one program that influenced my love of learning it is . . . NC Governor's School. Please click on the link for more info:
EB Aycock Student makes it to TV - click here for the video
More info - click here
TURN ADVERSITY INTO ADVANTAGE
Why is Art important?
Check these links:
North Carolina Museum of Art link
Here is the link to intro 3D Designing programs capable of use in 3D Printing!
More Congratulations!
EB Aycock Students scored 1st, 2nd and 3rd for 6-8 in the Greenville Recycles Contest!
1st Place Winner Lauren Wilder 8th Grade will have her art wrapped to a Greenville Recycle Truck!
(see pic below)
2nd Place CeCe Wilkerson 7th Grade
3rd Place Shari White 7th grade and. . .
3rd Place Kerrion Brown 6th Grade
Congratulations!
Your students have been chosen to represent EB Aycock’s outstanding Visual Arts Program this year!
Only 10 students from our school will have their art displayed.
(Out of the entire school!)
Please join us in this celebration of your students!
Place: Greenville Museum of Art
802 South Evans St.
Greenville, NC 27834
(252-758-1946)
Time: 5:30 - 7:00pm
June 2nd 2015
Sponsors: Grady-White Boats
North State Steal
I look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Daniel Lewis Niece
Visual Art Educator
Innovation and Design Lab Facilitator
EB Aycock Middle School
Masks in the Media Center
Click the link here to see more!
YEAP Art Reception at ECU!
Groot (Ceramic) Tymain Everett 6th G
Please click the link below to see more!
2015 City of Greenville Recycles!
Poster Contest
check the link:
2015 City of Greenville Recycles! Poster Contest
We recently had students participate in a fundraising event for EMERGE Gallery. Students received half of all $ales to spend as they please!
YEAP (Youth Expressions Art Project)
Please click the bi-lingual link:2015 YEAP (Youth Expressions Art Project)
T-shirt Contest
Info Link - 2015 STEAM T-shirt Logo Design
Check out the progress on our mini-grant mural. This is the project we have been working on with Mr. Pearless Speller.
Here's the link to the work in progress: Mural 2014 - 2015
Here's the link to the final murals: Final Murals
***I just found some cool art apps for your computer, smartphone, or tablet. Check them out by clicking on the app link below.
Collaborative Mural with local artist:
Pearless Speller
I have been working with Mr. Cannon and the Booster Club since last spring to bring together a collaboration with our students and local artist Pearless Speller. He is 7th grader Nick Speller's father and Mr. Cannon has a print of one of Speller's paintings in his office.
We plan on collaborating with Speller to create six 4x8' murals to place throughout the school. Each will have a theme: Music, Sports, Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science.
On December 2nd, from 10:00-10:45 we will have all grades of current art students come down to the gym to share questions and ideas with Mr. Speller. CAN'T WAIT!!!
Here is the link to a slideshow of Speller's work:
I was at the ECU Innovation Design Lab the other day to learn about eSTEAM . Here is a video about one of the tools I was able to use(IT WAS AWESOME!!!):
Here's the head I created using the haptic device featured in the video:
The 3D printer we used for the head prints in COLOR!
If you'd like to learn more, here are links with mucho(MUCH) info:
(3D Printed Batman at ECU)
CHECK THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE PICS
Things I saw at the ECU lab link
We have been creating a lot of cool things on Google Sketchup lately.
The students and I have noticed that Minecraft is similar in many ways to Sketchup.
In that vein of thought, here is a video that explores the speed of light using Minecraft!:
Here's a new tech I may incorporate into the classroom - animoto. I stole the idea from Mr. Puckett at JH Rose. I used it to show a glimpse of some of my own art. Check it out:
Here's a link to the full collection: Mr. Niece's Art
ABSTRACT ART
Students explore abstract art. We do some cross curriculum work by including grade level appropriate science inspired imagery in our abstract art. Each grade level studys a different abstract artist.
6th -Visually interpret solar system or earth layers in the style of - Robert Delauny
7th -Visually interpret Organism Structures or Motion in the style of - Wassily Kandinsky
8th -Visually interpret Evolution/Charles Darwin in the style of - Henri Matisse
Please click ABSTRACT ARTISTS at the top left of this page to explore these artist further.
The Chainsaw Demo was a success!
Please check out the pics by clicking on chainsaw demo at the
top left corner of this page.
Also, check out this video from the end of the demo. . . please pardon the sweat.
Google Sketchup
~ Students explore Google Sketchup. This is a program I requested access to so that the students can build 3D objects, buildings, etc on the computer. The students love it! They asked "when we can do it again?". Construction Contractors, Designers, Home Decorators, Sculptors, Engineers and many more professionals use similar programs in "real life". View student work by clicking on Sketchup at the top left corner of this page.
"Mistake" Art
~ We cover primary, secondary, and complementary colors. The students discuss how some of Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso’s paintings are not “realistic” nor “perfect”. Striving for perfection can be crippling to many students at this stage in their development. We learn that “mistakes” are not to be thrown away. “Mistakes” can be turned into works of art.
Medallions
~EB Aycock students explore the world of ceramics, relief sculpture, and coins through the ages. Each student makes a textured relief sculpture medallion using clay . . . and the tread from their own shoe. We punch holes in the medallions so they can be strung on necklaces. And the glazes turn out great on the medallions!
Check out the student work under Home (located at the top left of this page).
~ Please click on the Supply List (on the top left of this page).
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~ Please click on the Teacher introduction (on the top left of this page).