The Dusty Art Room

New to the art room this year is the incorporation of green screen technology!  Second trimester students created a paper collage background and then used the DoInk Green Screen App to add themselves and sometimes their friends to their portraits.  These are so wonderful that I just had to show them all!  Enjoy!  6th Grade Portraits:  7th Grade Portraits 8th Grade Portraits

On Friday, November 18th the 6th grade students travelled to the Field Museum to see the Terra Cotta Warriors and explore some natural history.  It was a great day filled with lots of enthusiasm and learning!  Students were curious explorers and observers of the Field Museum's vast collections.   We were complimented by museum visitors and staff on the engagement and excitement of our students.  I had a blast leading my group around one of my favorite Chicago museums!  Here's some of the pictures that I took.  Be on the lookout for some of the podcast presentations from the 6th graders!  The 6th graders did a wonderful job staying flexible as our bus ride home took over two hours due to some heavy unforeseen traffic on the rainy Friday afternoon.  I hope the 6th grade students enjoyed the day as much as I did!   Enjoy these photos from the day:  ...

The 5th annual Fine Arts and Career Fair Showcase was a HUGE success!! March is not only Youth Art Month, but also Open House, so we filled the gym with the 8th grade career fair research projects as well as artwork from EVERY Hester Art Student.  Parents joined in the celebration of the wonderful work happening at Hester by writing fan mail cards to the students letting them know just how much they enjoyed the work.  We had students and teachers writing notes as well!  Special thanks to Faustyna K. for writing the most fan mail cards that night and celebrating her fellow students!  Adding an interactive component, we hung black paper so all visitors could add to our chalkboard mural! I am so proud of all of the students and enjoy the opportunity to watch these students grow each year.  Not only are the arts an essential component of modern life, but 50% of careers today require some arts training.  Students are not only making art, but also problem sol...