Gearing Up for Annual Art Show

Late nights every day this week as I scramble to get projects ready for our art show.

I did a quick load of Wabi Sabi pots yesterday.

A few of the 3rd graders need to come in at lunch to finish glazing their coil pots...

while 2nd grade artists need to do the same with their effigy vessels.

Ceramic dragons were painted with watercolors so no kiln necessary - woo hoo!

And after all that, I have to select, mat, tag and fill my six-sided panel with an assortment of our 2D work, including some Blue Dog paintings.

Show opens on Monday, should have pix posted by the following weekend. In the meantime, you can click on '2011 art exhibit' in my labels section to the right to see last year's work!

One Year Anniversary Giveaway

My first anniversary as a blogger is coming up at the end of the month. Woo Hoo! Pretty good for an ADD'er to stick with something for a WHOLE year, right?!!!

In honor of this momentous occasion, I'd like to have my first giveaway(s) for my followers - I appreciate your support immensely! If you're a frequent visitor but haven't already signed on as a follower - hurry!

My kiln room and project drawers are stuffed w/project examples - some teacher-created and some from students who have moved. I have extra Wabi Sabi pots, fish sculptures, coil pots, Kumihimo braidings, DuBuffet self-portrait of yours truly, radial symmetry, etc. Thought this would be a good way to clean out some of the extra stuff.

The names of my followers will be placed in a container, shaken thoroughly and drawn by the school librarian who so generously accepts my most grievous behavior issues for timeout. Drawing will be held on April 29. Good Luck!

7 classes & 200+ pots...

My third graders read the book "The Pot That Juan Built" and are finishing their coil pots. I LOVE coil pots but with 7 groups of 3rd graders - that's a LOT of pots to keep track of so...

Each class uses a different shaped base so I can differentiate if they get mixed up (and trust me - they always do!).

Every student gets a construction paper shape in a different color - they use this as both a name tag and a template to cut around for their base.

So we have yellow circles

gray squares

pink triangles

light blue rectangles

white ovals

beige diamonds

long tan rectangles.

Glad I don't have EIGHT groups...