Klimt Trees are our inspiration

With the onset of winter, the beauty of the patterns of tree branches are visible all around us.  I showed students the intricately patterned artwork of Gustav Klimt, and we created our own trees, using lots of patterns and lots of GOLD, as Klimt did.

Students in third grade used metallic oil pastels and watercolor paints.  5th Graders embossed tooling foil, then colorized with oil pastels, then embossed designs with wooden sticks.  4th graders are embroidering trees with golden thread and sequins.

See more student artwork on the Artsonia website.

Empty Bowls Dinner

We raised $361 for the VT Food Bank.  Thank you so much kitchen ladies and volunteers!!  We hope that unsold bowls will be made available for sale at Breakfast with Santa.

Empty Bowls Dinner is Wednesday, Nov. 2

Hartland Elementary School Students have been creating and glazing bowls to donate to our Empty Bowls Dinner.  Three types of soups will be served along with bread.  For a donation, you may choose one of these beautiful bowls to fill with soup, and then take the bowl home!  All proceeds will go toward Hurricane Irene relief efforts.  The dinner will take place at the HES multipurpose room at 5:30.  See you there!

Decorative Gourds for Fall Art Inspiration

2nd Grade Collage cut from papers that students decorated using tempera paint and textured rollers

See more student collages on Artsonia

Congratulations to Hartland Art Students!

Three of our 6th grade students have winning posters in the annual Earth Science Week Poster Contest co-sponsored by Omya, the Vermont Marble Exhibit, the Vermont Geological Survey, and the Vermont Geological Society.   This years theme was: Fossils- What do they teach us?

All students with winning posters will receive a mineral or fossil specimen courtesy of the Vermont Marble Exhibit, an award certificate, and cash prizes!

Here are the first and third prize winning posters.  These both show much hard work, creative design, and an appreciation for the beauty and significance of fossils.

VATA Conference

Last week, I attended the annual conference of the Vermont Art Teachers Association, held at UVM in Burlington.  As usual, I received much inspiration and was lucky enough to meet and listen to our keynote speaker, artist Wolf Kahn.  He is absolutely one of my FAVORITE artists.  His use of color is extraordinary!

Sticky Note Public Art

6th Grade art students have produced public art in the showcase next to the art room.  Their art medium is Sticky Notes!

Kindergarten ceramic Leaf Bowls are ready to go home

A GRADE in Art Class?

You may wonder how a student can be graded in art class.  Art is so personal and subjective, right?  For 5th-8th grade students, I use A rubric for excellence in art class as a general grading tool.  You'll see it is not based on my idea of artistic beauty or  student "talent", but mostly on motivation and effort.  When students reach 7th and 8th grades, I give more specific rubrics for  individual projects.  Students self-evaluate and I evaluate, using the same rubric.  The rubrics evaluate students' understanding and use of certain elements, principles, and methods of art.

Hartland's Artsonia Art Gallery is up and running!

www.artsonia.com  Please check out the Artsonia
 website to view recently published awesome Hartland Elementary School student artwork.  If any parents want to start a Fan Club for their children on Artsonia, or have their children receive comments about their artwork on the website, you'll need your child's Screen Name and password.  They were on your permission slips.  If you are like me, you may not have realized that and saved those numbers.  But I do have all those screen names and passwords in a file.  Just email me if you need them again:  Jcathey@hartland.k12.vt.us

5th Grade Landscape Collage

See some samples

Blog Launch - Fall 2011

Welcome to the Hartland Elementary School Art Room Blog- a new adventure for Ms. Cathey and her art students.