ART LAB H20!
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
-Albert Einstein
Room 219 | Mrs. Vecchioni
Waters Fine Arts Elementary | Chicago
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THAnK YoU EVeRyONE!
THAnK YoU EVeRyONE!
Nearly 25 years at Waters Fine Arts...I will miss you more than you know...
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With Kindness,
Mrs. Vecchioni
ART LAB H2O! All updates and archived monthly Art Lab News here!
ART LAB H2O! All updates and archived monthly Art Lab News here!
Here is our SY24-25 iteration of our flexible Makerspace and art lab. Each year i add a little bit and switch a few things around to enhance our studio experience...We never do the same project twice! (I want to be as excited and as engaged as our children:)!) This year I am prototyping visual journaling with all students 1-8 grades in our second studio each week. We are working on these experimental poetry self-portraits in addition to our weekly community studio session. Additionally, our MS Art 1 class has Genius Hour every Friday---all year long! These 2024-2025 additions to the ARt Lab have grown student voice and choice in our weekly studio space. We LOVE it:))!
Here is our SY24-25 iteration of our flexible Makerspace and art lab. Each year i add a little bit and switch a few things around to enhance our studio experience...We never do the same project twice! (I want to be as excited and as engaged as our children:)!) This year I am prototyping visual journaling with all students 1-8 grades in our second studio each week. We are working on these experimental poetry self-portraits in addition to our weekly community studio session. Additionally, our MS Art 1 class has Genius Hour every Friday---all year long! These 2024-2025 additions to the ARt Lab have grown student voice and choice in our weekly studio space. We LOVE it:))!
To learn more about current happenings, recent events, ongoing curriculum, process photos and art adventures---please check out our monthly newsletter below.
Each month, I create a visual newsletter to share what students are learning (and how and why:)), arts integration themes and current event connections with you. Special activities, exhibits and showcases are also featured.
It is the best way to see our Art Lab Syllabus---
In ACTION---:))!
This month's ART LAB NEWS:
JUNE 2025
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MaY 2025
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April 2025
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March 2025
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February 2025
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January 2025
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DECEMBER 2024
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NOVEMBER 2024
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Special Edition| PAPEL PICADO Family Workshop
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OCTOBER 2024
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February 2024
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JANUARY 2024
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September 2023
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archived Newsletters---We are always up to something new and different...
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Lunar New Year special edition
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December 2022
November 2022
dia de los muertos family event
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Stop by and visit any time!
Stop by and visit any time!
Hello Everyone!
Art Lab H2O will be interactive and and a NEW way for us to share. You will be able to see our galleries in real time as we publish our work directly to our website. You will be able to keep track of events by reviewing our newsletter archive and former posts in Google Classroom here too. Please consider our former website a 20+ year archive of our amazing collaboration and good work and our NEW site a working journal that looks toward the future.
One will be silver, the other will be gold...
Check out a snapshot of our fun over the years...
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Thank YOU Waters!
Let's make WAVES together!
Welcome to ART LAB H2O!
Welcome to ART LAB H2O!
Check here for upcoming K-8 Art Lab events, exhibits, special projects and our collaboratory or Co-Lab activities. Co-Lab activities are clubs, teams, learning groups and art leaders that are working for change together! If you have a plan---We can create a club!
CHECK OUT OUR NEW 2ND FLOOR MULTI-ARTS LITERARY SALON---NEW IN fALL OF 2023! tHANK YOU cpsartS FOR YOUR SUPPORT---$20, 000---TO MAKE THIS AMAZING SPACE FOR ALL WATERS SCHOOL STUDENTS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY. wE ARE SO GRATEFUL:)!
"You are never too small to make a difference."
--Greta Thunberg
Eco-Friendly Supply and Materials Request
Eco-Friendly Supply and Materials Request
Blast from OUr Past!
Blast from OUr Past!
Check below for former art is action projects!
Check below for former art is action projects!
Our 2020-2021 CLIMATE JUSTICE Pop-UP Gallery Redux! hOW WE GOT THROUGH PANDEMIC LEARNING TOGETHER! wOW! tHANK YOU wATERS kIDS!
Our 2020-2021 CLIMATE JUSTICE Pop-UP Gallery Redux! hOW WE GOT THROUGH PANDEMIC LEARNING TOGETHER! wOW! tHANK YOU wATERS kIDS!
K-8 Student Work!
MNI Wiconi!
We will be using these artworks as our primary sources for our upcoming Water(S) Is Life mural project to LAUNCH our NEW 4D Multi-arts space (Literary Salon). See below for more information!
WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS is the story that inspired our art---written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade. Ms. Lindstrom and Ms. Goade are Indigenous women who share their sacred roles as the first Water Protectors of Turtle Island with all of us.
Ms. Goade's artwork is stunning...
Our 2021 Eco-Design Soho Gallery
Our 2021 Eco-Design Soho Gallery
Design Thinking: A Study of Architecture inspired by Jeanne Gang and other design thinkers!
Measure your plastic footprint here and learn more about the good work of PLASTIC BANK! https://plasticbank.com/plastic-footprint/
OUR 2nd floor Mural PROJECT!
Be Water...
This artwork is a student-created design rooted in Environmental justice and hopeful visions of change.
Our Water Protector image is almost fininshed and her hair will become a double-sided image of the chicago River that is featured on our windows and will continue throughout the 2nd floor walls...Students k-8 will have the opportunity to create with us! What fun!
WE STAND WITH WATER PROTECTORS!
WE STAND WITH WATER PROTECTORS!
Our Call to Action!
Our Call to Action!
We will be kicking off the school year with this important story about making choices. Luke shares his story of why he has chosen to act green. Maybe you will too?
Our Inspiration!
Our Inspiration!
Greta Thunberg is our inspiration for our work for environmental and climate justice this year! We will look at her stand against global warming through a variety of age-appropriate texts. Her pursuit of knowledge, celebration of challenges and willingness to stand up for her convictions are powerful examples to all of us.
LEARN MORE ABOUT Youth ACTIVISTS & UNEP!
LEARN MORE ABOUT Youth ACTIVISTS & UNEP!
Check out more stories about the good work being done for climate justice and sustainable development here: https://www.cleanseas.org/news-stories
Check out our Little Amal advocacy and activism this year! Coming Soon! Make Waves!
Check out our Little Amal advocacy and activism this year! Coming Soon! Make Waves!
ART LAB Assessment Philosophy & Process
Performance-based assessments occur throughout our ART LAB experience. Students create artworks non-stop and we often have pop-up galleries, group critiques (Feldman's 4 Methods) and all-school, formal exhibits.
Progress-monitoring is constant. I am always working with students to meet their needs and evaluate any supports (or space) that they need. Student portfolios guide this process and add support to our progress-monitoring.
Students create 3-2-1 THINK SHEETS at key moments in each project. Think sheets can be both oral and written---in the form of 3-2-1 Think Sheets.
(They are those student-created triangles, that look like candy corn, that you often see in the ART LAB or in student portfolios.)
I ask students to share their thinking:
3 "things" you've learned in this project...
2 "things" you found interesting in our experience...
1 question you still have about our learning...
Vocabulary: Share all you have learned in our study...
This snapshot is important to me. I learn what students are thinking and what is important to them in their learning. Rather than testing kids on what I think they should know, these vignettes tell me what they found meaningful.
I use these 3-2-1 THINK SHEETS to plan further lessons and to hear student voice. I love learning the questions students have---after our study is done or as we create together. I am always surprised:)!
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ART LAB K-8 Grading & Assessment
ART LAB K-8 Grading & Assessment
All students earn 10 points for working at their own pace to create artworks that are meaningful to themselves and connect to classroom learning. If you are working---you earn your points for each studio. If, after three redirections, you will lose all of your studio points for the day. No partial credit. This grading policy attempts to build intrinsic motivation and student ownership of their learning. At the end of each quarter, students can earn 100 points--A for Art.
All students earn 10 points for working at their own pace to create artworks that are meaningful to themselves and connect to classroom learning. If you are working---you earn your points for each studio. If, after three redirections, you will lose all of your studio points for the day. No partial credit. This grading policy attempts to build intrinsic motivation and student ownership of their learning. At the end of each quarter, students can earn 100 points--A for Art.
Frequently asked questions...
Frequently asked questions...
- 1) If a student is absent, automatic 10 points.
2) If a student loses 10 points for two sessions, the quarter grade will be a 80 points--B.
2) If a student loses 10 points for two sessions, the quarter grade will be a 80 points--B.
3) If a student loses 10 points for 3 sessions---a C. This will result in a C for Conference with student and family to create an intervention plan.
3) If a student loses 10 points for 3 sessions---a C. This will result in a C for Conference with student and family to create an intervention plan.
Everyone can get an A in Art if you are working! I do not judge student creativity or conformity---only ask for purposeful art making throughout our studio time.
Everyone can get an A in Art if you are working! I do not judge student creativity or conformity---only ask for purposeful art making throughout our studio time.
(You can't earn "extra credit" for points lost in the past. That missed opportunity can't be remade. We learn from it, and we move forward. We begin again!)
(You can't earn "extra credit" for points lost in the past. That missed opportunity can't be remade. We learn from it, and we move forward. We begin again!)
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There isn't ONE CORRECT ANSWER in art. Art is about creating your own answer. That is resilient work. It needs support and a safe space to take risks and make mistakes. It is my intention to make ART LAB a safe space for students to create and grow.
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