4th-Grade Making Art

In 4th-Grade visual arts, students will recognize that explorative play with materials can inspire ideas for visual art and design as they recognize how the human experience is expressed in diverse ways. They will identify and describe how visual art and design communicate meaning between any subject, discipline, event, or issue, as they compare how artists work in different cultures and at different times in history. Additionally, students will work to communicate plans for completing works of visual art and design as they problem-solve and persist to determine the outcome of a final product. discuss and define how to determine appropriate criteria for a given work of art as they as the discuss and for an opinion about the social and personal value of art. Lastly, through a survey lesson titled "What is Art," students will discuss and define how to determine appropriate criteria for a given work of art as they as the discuss and for an opinion about the social and personal value of art (Visual Arts - 2020 Colorado Academic Standards, 2020).

References:

Visual Arts - 2020 Colorado Academic Standards. (2020). Colorado Arts Standards. https://www.cde.state.co.us/coarts/2020cas-va-p12

Upcycled Kinetic Sculptures

Medium: Plastic water bottles, Sharpies, wooden dowels, and rubber-bands

Upcycled Kinetic Sculptures

Medium: Plastic water bottles, Sharpies, wooden dowels, and rubber-bands

African Art-Inspired Paper Masks

Medium: Construction paper, markers, and glue

African Art-Inspired Paper Masks

Medium: Construction paper, markers, and glue

African Art-Inspired Paper Masks (2017-2018 Winter Arts Festival Display)

Medium: Construction paper, markers, and glue

Step 1 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Creating an Armature

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Step 1 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Creating an Armature

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Step 1 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Creating an Armature

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Step 2 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Wrapping Armature with Plaster Gauze

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Step 3 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Painting the Final Arachnid

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Step 3 of Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures: Painting the Final Arachnid

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint

Stages of the Maman-Inspired Arachnid Sculptures Creative Process

(Lesson halted due to COVID shutdown)

Medium: Twenty-gauged wire; tissue paper, rubber-bands, plaster mesh and acrylic paint