(Past) Art News!
Congratulations to Helen Walker, Emma Tucker, Lilli Green, Kelsey White, Luciana Beltran, William Durst, Jesus Milan Ortega, Mary Hollingsworth, Peyton Ridge, and Addie Johnson for representing Beck Academy in this year’s GCS Middle School Level Juried Art Show!
An additional Congratulations go to both Lilli Green and Helen Walker for winning awards!
Lilli Green—Honorable Mention in “Grade 8”
Helen Walker—Honorable Mention in “Evidence of Creative Process”
Show Link: https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/visualarts/middle/
Awards Link: https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/visualarts/awardsms/
THANK YOU to SmartARTS and the Metropolitan Arts Council for allowing Beck Academy to have Sunny Mullarkey McGowan join us again this year! We cannot be more grateful for this printmaking and mural unit on Identity during a Covid year. Everything was safe, fun, and an experience of JOY! This temporary mural will uplift us all these last 9 weeks of the school year #smartarts #artsintegration #mural #rainbow #beckartdepartment #yeahthatgreenville
Congratulations to Healen Martinez, Helen Walker, Leah Kratky, Mary Hollingsworth, and Peyton Ridge for representing Beck Academy in this year’s SCAEA Western Region Youth Art Month Virtual Exhibition!
The Beck Art Department tree's theme this year for the Festival of Trees is "Degas' Ballerinas Dance The Nutcracker"
The tree will be on display at the Hyatt in Downtown Greenville from now until NYE.
Thank you so much to the Greenville County Museum of Art for hosting a Virtual Field Trip with our classes to learn about Jasper Johns, his motifs, and his Numbers series.
Welcome Back!!!
The 2020-21 School Year may look a little different, but I am looking forward to a new year and seeing everyone's faces and smiles (even with the masks on).
Thank you to all my wonderful students in the spring who--despite the quick change to learning at home--created some of the best artwork I have ever seen! Below is a little gallery to show off their hard work:
Congratulations to the following students for representing Beck Academy at the SCAEA Western Region Youth Art Month Show:
Celie Ann Rollins, Hanna Durst, and Lauren Collins
Location:
SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities
15 University Street, Greenville, SC 29601
Exhibition Dates:
March 3-8
(Visit Tuesday-Friday from 10-2 or at the Reception on Sunday)
Reception: Light refreshments will be provided by the Governor’s School
March 8; 1:30-3:00
Art Club this month made their own sketchbooks! They created their covers using the tissue paper technique on watercolor paper and then stitched the papers together using a 3-hole pamphlet stitch.
The Beck Visual Art Department was so fortunate this past December to have a SmartARTS Printmaking Unit with Teaching Artist Sunny Mullarkey Studio !!!
We created gelli prints with carved relief stamps inspired by the art of Eduardo Bolioli and his “My Surreal Hawaiian Life” series. Each student then wrote an original haiku poem to put on their final artwork. All prints will be hung up on the main hall for the month of January.
The Beck Visual Art Department would like to say a special thank you to SmartARTS, The Metropolitan Arts Council, and Beck Academy Middle for their consistent and constant support of our program.
“A Keith Haring Christmas” by students in Art Club and Adaptive Art!
The tree is at the Hyatt Downtown for the Festival of Trees celebration from now until New Year’s Eve on the second floor.
The final touches are getting finished for the Beck Art Department's "A Keith Haring Christmas" tree for the Festival of Trees at the Hyatt Downtown.
The tree will be up from Thanksgiving-NYE
Adaptive Art is hard at work painting our new pots for the Art Garden
Beck's First Annual Miniature Art Show!
Adaptive Art finished our banner for the Buddy Walk on Saturday!
I just LOVE these Warm/Cool Colored Radial Design Paper Collages from 6th graders!
Our first Art Club meeting of the year was so much FUN creating our own collaborative art piece for the Greenville County Middle School Collaborative At show.
Welcome Back to the 2019-2020 School Year!
*Click on the Art Club Page to get information on Art Club Dates for the year (Hard copies are outside my room)
*Sketchbooks for class are DUE and required by Tuesday, September 3rd
Beck Mask Portraits up for display at the
Barnes & Noble Book Fair Fundraiser!
Our 2018-19 Annual Beck Art Show is up!
Celebrating and representing Beck Arts at the Greenville County Middle School Juried Art Show!
Thank you, Cecilia Ho, for such an AWESOME experience this school year teaching my classes felting! We all loved it!!! 🐑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you also to Metropolitan Arts Council and SmartARTS for this opportunity to enhance my classroom experience to a one-of-a-kind and unforgettable year!
"Congratulations!" to the following students who won awards at the Greenville County Middle School Juried Art Show:
6th Grade:
Ellie Melzer--2nd Place Mixed Media
7th Grade:
Kristie Taylor--3rd Place Printmaking
Cindy Kieu--4th Place Printmaking
8th Grade:
Abigail Lockhart--4th Place Printmaking (not pictured)
Beck International Academy Celebrates our Differences!
#WorldAutismDay
Arts Integration: SmartARTS Theater Unit with Prentiss Standridge
For the month of March, my art classes have been studying the art of mask-making with an arts integrated unit with local actor, Prentiss Standridge. This amazing unit started with learning about the history of masks with emphasis on Commedia dell'Arte masks from the Italian Renaissance followed by practicing Actor Skills and Tools with active learning games and Neutral Mask Tableaus.
The ending artworks were Mask Portraits where students wore their mask and posed to create a character that evoked a mood or emotion.
This semester (like last semester) ROCKED it, and I am so very proud of them!
A GIANT THANK YOU to Metropolitan Arts Council and Beck Academy Middlefor your constant support with our Visual Arts Department!
We are so incredibly fortunate to have our SmartARTS guest artists come back for our second semester classes! Here are images from our Neutral Mask Emotion Statues and a sneak peek from Adaptive Art where we are making spirit animal masks! Thank you, Prentiss Standridge, for your AMAZING lessons to help us get to this point.
Congratulations to 8th grader Madison Roberts on her 2nd Place award in the Western Region’s Youth Art Month Exhibition through the South Carolina Art Educators Association! Her work will now be on exhibition with other region winners to compete for the State Youth Art Month Exhibition in Columbia.
Madison’s Picasso Felting was completed during the SmartARTS Fiber Arts Unit with Cecilia Ho in Miss Steller’s class.
Dancing Penguins with our Adaptive Art Class!
The Visual Arts Department was so incredibly lucky to have a second SmartARTS Artist-Teacher with them this fall semester. Cecilia Ho is a local artist who specializes in Fiber Arts. She worked with Miss Steller's classes for 8 days where students learned: how to turn natural sheep wool into Wool Felt as Decorative and Functional Objects with the Wet Felting and Needle Felting Techniques plus some basic Sewing and Stitching Skills. We discussed different types of “Movement” terms, shared ideas, background, history, experimented fiber arts technique, and learned so much about Wool, Felt, and Felting.
We are so proud of all our students who did "FELTastic" on their creative Fiber Art projects based on 4 chosen artists: Heather Brown (6th) ; Vincent Van Gogh (7th) ; Pablo Picasso (8th) ; Wassily Kandinsky (Adaptive Art). They did an AMAZING job!
Thank you to SmartARTS and the Metropolitan Arts Council for sponsoring such one-of-a-kind Arts opportunities for students in Greenville County Schools.
We are so excited to have Cecilia Ho with us for Beck's very first Felting Unit! With the support of SmartARTS and the Metropolitan Arts Council, the Beck Art Department is having our second SmartARTS artist-teacher with us for this semester. Ms. Ho is a fiber artist who specializes in felting. So far, she has taught students about both needle-felting and wet-felting!
Art Club December Meeting!
On Monday, the Beck Art Department was so incredibly lucky to have Béatrice Coron come and speak to my last two classes and “special edition” veteran Art Club students!
Ms. Coron is such an inspiration and such an awesome human! She was open to my classroom, fluid in her lessons, and so thoughtful in her presentations and teachings. Students created their own paper-cuts and were able to take goodie-bags of extra supplies to continue their works at home!
A HUGE thank you to Donna Shank-Major from the Fine Arts Center and Greenville County Schools’ ABC grants for making this opportunity available and possible!
Festival of Trees; "A Lowcountry Christmas with Jonathan Green"
2nd Floor, Hyatt, Downtown Greenville
Now until New Year's Day
Mask Portraits, SmartARTS Visual Art-Theater Unit
Arts Integration: SmartARTS Theater Unit with Prentiss Standridge
All classes have been studying the art of mask-making with an arts integrated unit with local actor, Prentiss Standridge. Students learned about the history of masks with emphasis on Commedia dell'Arte masks from the Italian Renaissance. Students then created their own masks with the intent of creating a character that evokes a certain mood or emotion.
Below are images from our Neutral Mask Emotion Sculpture Galleries, students working on their masks, and one student's mask portrait:
7th and 8th grade artwork:
Adaptive Art: Silly Pumpkin Collages
6th grade:
Stained Glass Windows inspired by La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain
We had our first Art Club meeting this Thursday! 64 and counting!
Welcome back to school!
The Art Department at Beck International Academy has some exciting plans for the upcoming 2018-19 school year! We will be continuing our partnership with the Metropolitan Arts Council's SmartARTS Program, continuing our partnership with the Festival of Trees Exhibition the month of December (located at the Hyatt), and we will be continuing to make awesome art and connections in the classroom!
I am so excited for this year!
Reminders: Sketchbooks for fall classes are due Friday, August 31st and Chromebook and Google Classroom information will be announced soon
Happy Summer from the Beck International Academy Art Department!
The Annual Beck Art Show is Up!
The Reception is THIS Thursday, May 17th from 4:00-5:30 (Drop in)
A BIG "Thank You!" to the Barnes&Nobles in the Shops of Greenridge for supporting Beck International Academy in their spring book fair and for letting us display our "We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits."
“We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits”
Beck International Academy is proud to announce its spring exhibition “We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits” created during the Metropolitan Art Council’s SmartARTS unit with guest photographer Polly Gaillard. Photographs were taken by students in both Carlon Steller’s fall and spring art classes.
“This year’s SmartARTS unit has been an amazing experience for my students and school. Students learned how to turn a picture of a classmate into a work of art through the instruction of Polly Gaillard teaching the compositional strengths of a fine art portrait. Students excelled at using their devices to create beautiful and thoughtful portraits of their peers. The professional-looking portraits that were displayed in the fall are still the talk of the school. I am looking forward to everyone’s reaction to this show and our upcoming Annual Beck Art Show!” –Carlon Steller, Art Teacher