Clay Bowls

Fifth Grade students learned how to roll a slab and use a drape mold to create these clay bowls. Students glazed their bowls once their bowls were fired in the kiln.

Wire Sculptures

Fourth grade students looked at artwork by Steve Lohman. They noticed that Lohman's people showed a lot of movement. Students used Twisteez wire to create their own person. They had to make sure that their artwork showed movement and could stand on its own.

Pinch Pots

Kindergarten students were introduced to clay. The learned that the clay gets fired in a kiln and that we use glaze instead of paint to make it colorful.

Adire Cloth

Fifth Grade Students used traditional symbols from Africa as well as symbols unique to them to create Adire Cloth.

Adire Cloth is native to the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. Artists in Nigeria use a starchy paste made from the cassava plant to paint their designs on to the cloth. Then they use blue dye made from the indigo plant to dye the fabric. The cassava paste acts as a resist, allowing the dye to color the fabric everywhere except where the designs were painted.

El Sol Artwork at the KIA!

The annual "Young Artists of Kalamazoo County" exhibition is showing right now at the KIA. Here is what the artwork from El Sol looks like. Congratulation students!

Picasso Snowmen

Kindergarten students read the book, "When Pigasso met Mootise" by Nina Laden and discussed the similarities and differences between artwork made by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Students noticed that Picasso like to use geometric shapes, especially squares. They learned that this style of art is called cubism. Students emulated Picasso’s style by using only squares in their entire snowman picture. They even outlined each square with a black line, just like Picasso liked to do in his artwork.

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