Natchirsvik
2020-2021 Art Liaison: MacKenzie Ervin
Health and Anatomy in Art
Secondary students can show their learning though infographics like this one. Students really learned to observe and explain the workings of the respiratory organs in order to discuss lung cancer, its causes, ways to prevent it, and how it is treated.
Middle School Silhouettes
Watercolor: students practiced watercolor wash with stark red moons and dark silhouettes of local animals.
Charcoal: students practiced animal illustrations with charcoal, expirimenting with smudging techniques.
Landscapes
Middle school students completed illustrations of local and distant landscapes using colored pencil and pastels.
Tesselations
Middle school math covers isomorphic transformations (when a shape is moved without changing form in any way), and practiced using translations in art with these tessellation posters.
4th-5th Grade Flower Parts
Students demonstrate knowledge of plant parts in science.
4th-5th Grade Rainbows
Students show water particles in the air around rainbows.
3rd Grade art Projects
Students work with pattern int their "Crazy Hair".
3rd graders study color with monochrome paintings.
3rd grade students study symmetry with name bugs.
K-2 Paper-Quilt
Students worked together to design quilt squares, studying repetition and symmetry as well as adding traditional food items to the imagery.
Each student also contributed a writing piece with acrostics of things for which they are thankful and writing sentences explaining the most important ones.
Pumpkin Heads!
K-2nd grade tuned into pumpkin-heads this fall!
October 2020
Natchirsvik
K-2 Mixed-Media
Students practice design and dexterity combining drawing, cutting, and collage in these mixed media illustrations.
K-2 Painting
Students studying the solar system created their own imagined representations of it.
Promoting Community Health
Students of all ages made signs and posters to start the year off with thoughts of how to show love through protecting community health.
Students gave advice, depicted positive behaviors, and had the chance to ask questions about how to behave in school and how to know they are safe.
Fall 2020
Natchirsvik (White Mountain, AK)
Stay at Home
Children Play together
Get away from Daddy's Boat
No Basketball During Corona
Fighting Off COVID
Play Nintendo
At School
Six Feet Apart
2019-2020 Art Liaison: MacKenzie Ervin
Rebecca Voris worked with pre-K students on slab-constructed wall-hanging flower pots as well as soap dishes. -- Natchirsvik, January 2020.
Artist Residency with Rebecca Voris
Teaching Artist Rebecca Voris worked with the students, teachers and community of Natchirsvik (White Mountain) to create a variety of ceramic products including model animals, wall-hanging flower pots, soap dishes, and bowls using slab constructions, pinching, and throwing pots on electric wheels. Finished products were adorned with glazes and some classes also worked with glass, reusing old bottles by placing fragments in the bottom of dishes to melt into an artful finish. As well as teaching about the chemistry of firing ceramics, Rebecca Voris offered instruction in the salvage and rejuvenation of old, hardened, or dried out clay.
Kindergarden and 1st grade final projects. - Natchirsvik (White Mountain), January 24, 2020, Artist Residency with Rebecca Voris.
January 2020, Artist Residency with Rebecca Voris: High School
High school students worked on slab construction, rolling out and the clay and cutting or folding it into soap dishes.
High school students worked with the elements of design, creating patterns on their slabs prior to construction.
High school students used tools to shape and pattern their soap dishes during their 2020 artist residency with teaching artist Rebecca Voris.
Rebecca Voris helped students develop skills to shape ceramics on the wheel.
High school students had the opportunity to design their own projects using the potter's wheel.
Throwing pots on the wheel proved to be an engaging opportunity for students to practice persistence in the face of challenge, developing new skills and tenacity.
Natchirsvik (White Mountain) artist residency with Rebecca Voris, January 2020.
High school students and adults paint glazes onto completed pottery. Patterns could be created by using two or more glazes.
Another popular glazing technique involved dipping artwork partially or completely into an overglaze.
Students learned about the various firing temperatures of different clays and glazes. After their bisque fire, students used brushing, dipping, and scratch-removal methods to apply glazes to their work.
Before glazing, students discussed color mixing and art elements including design and repeated patterning. They had the opportunity to exercise these skills in the construction of and design work adorning their final pieces.
Natchirsvik high school students also learned about the chemical changes that cause color and texture to shifts as the temperature increases in the kiln. For many, they would get to see the the final effects of firing for the first time at their art show on Friday, January 24th when community, staff, and students all gathered to celebrate the work they did throughout the two week residency.
3rd-5th graders working on bowls with Rebecca Voris - January 2020.
Elementary/Middle School
Elementary and Middle School students all had a chance to make bowls ad soap dishes with Rebecca Voris during her two-week residency in Natchirsvik (White Mountain). They learned about principals of art including color wheels, color mixing, patterning, and repeated design.
Students also learned about the chemistry of ceramics and slab construction.
3rd-5th grade students using letters and clay balls pressed into a mold to create personalized bowls with Rebecca Voris - Natchirsvik (White Mountain), Januray 2020.
After a lesson on the color wheel, 3rd-5th grade students glaze their bisque-fired bowls. - Natchirsvik, artist residency with Rebecca Voris, 2020.
3rd-5th grade students receiving a lesson on slab construction prior to their soap dish project. - Natchirsvik (White Mountain), 2020.
Rebecca Voris taught students to use everyday tools like cardboard, forks, and pasta to create texture for their soup dishes.
Patterned soap dishes and and sculpted animals drying to get ready for their bisque fire -- Natchirsvik (White Mountain), artist residency with Rebecca Voris, 2020.
Rebecca Voris gives a kindergarten lesson explaining the changes they will notice in their bisque fired clay to prepare it for glazing. - Natchirsvik (White Mountain), January 2020.
2nd grade students hard at work, glazing their soap dishes.
3rd-5th grade students learning about how to recycle glass shards by adding them to the inner base of their soap dishes. They learn about manipulating firing temperature to melt and fuse the glass.
2nd grade students selecting colored glass to be melted into the base of their glazed soap dishes. - Natchirsvik (White Mountain), artist residency with Rebecca Voris, January 2020.
2017-2018
Bookmaking
