Living Paper Aquarium
A Kindergarten Art Exhibition
Earlier this year, the Kindergarteners had the opportunity to visit the new Living Planet Aquarium. They saw a wide variety of wild life, most of which were aquatic animals. In preparation for their trip, we looked at and drew different types of sea creatures. After the visit, the students chose their Each practiced drawing in their sketchbook. Then they created these sculptures. So jump in and explore Edgemont’s own paper aquarium.
paper and marker
Butterfly in the Sky
A First Grade Art Exhibition
Observing the world around them is a major focus for our first graders. These observations are a form of self discovery. For this project, students have created the life cycle of the butterfly. Learning about this cycle first in class, these students mimicked the transformation process by making the caterpillars, wrapping cocoons, and then designing the wings of the beautiful butterfly. Their butterflies are displayed just after emerging from their cocoons letting their newly formed wings get ready for first flight.
wood clothespin, cardboard, tissue paper, tempera paint
Underground
A First Grade Art Exhibition
First graders love learning about the world around. Part of their curriculum is also learning about the
world BELOW them. In order to better visualize and memorize the layers of soil, these students created mixed media collages out of paper, yarn, dirt, beans (rocks) and then salt dough to represent molten rock cooling to a rough stone. They also thought about and drew things we find underground like bones, treasure and pipes. The tactile, kinesthetic aspects of art are so important for student learning especially in the younger grades.
mixed media on cardboard
Collage Creatures
A Second Grade Art Exhibition
Learning about animals is really interesting and really fun. Second graders do an animal report. They learn all about the lifestyle and habitat of their chosen animal. To connect to this unit, we decided to create an artwork to go along with the animal. The medium of choice was collage. We started by painting paper. We used this paper to collage our backgrounds or habitats. Then we took our time practicing drawing our animals in our sketchbooks. When we felt like we could draw it well enough, we drew, colored and cut out our animal and placed it in the collage habitat.
paper, acrylic paint, colored pencils
The Starry Night
A Second Grade Art Exhibition
At some time or another, we have all gazed up at the night sky with wonder and awe. These art works inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s famous work “The Starry Night,” depict that wonder we have and can experience as we look up at night. Each student has added their personal touch by placing an original constellation into their sky.
oil pastel on paper
Fee-fi-fo-fum
A 3rd Grade Art Exhibition
Third grade has a unit on illustrators. In their Treasures book, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is used as an example of the process of illustration. We decided to make our own illustrations for the story in comic strip form. We stuck to the basic story but each of us had our own interpretation. The new storyline was inspired by choosing what Jack stole from the giant. In the real story it was the golden goose. We chose things like marshmallows, Doritos, or weapons. Look how each story is different in its own unique way.
colored pencil and sharpie on paper
The City of Provo
A Third Grade Art Exhibition
Building a cities takes lots of time, dedication, and people. Provo has continually grown to become the city it is today with each addition adding to it’s character. Natural characteristics such as the mountains, rivers, and lakes have dominated for quite sometime, but places like Seven Peaks water park, the Y, or Lavell Edwards Stadium have also left their marks. Using clay, these thirds graders have created landscapes that include their favorite parts of Provo.
fired mcw clay and acrylic paint
Pixel Art
A Fourth Grade Art Exhibition
Pixel = Picture + Element
Our world is dominated by pixels. The age of print is more and more behind us. Society has adopted digital advertising, books, photography, newspapers and more. Although a pixel is seen on a screen, we decided to create art out of physical and digital pixels and connect it with fractions. With art styles like Pointillism, this is no new concept to art. After completing our projects, we figured out the ratios of colors in fractions by counting the total number of pixels and seeing how many of each color there were.
mixed media
They Say You Want Revolution
A Fifth Grade Art Exhibition
The creation of this project had many pieces from design, to performance, photography, with the final product being a painting. Inspired by Norman Rockwell's process of shooting his own reference photos, we used iPads to photograph each other in poses. These photos were used as a reference for the paintings. We practiced drawing these photos and then created paintings with with acrylic paint on masonite board.
acrylic paint on masonite board
Shoot for the Moon
A Sixth Grade Art Exhibition
Sixth grade science ranges from microbiology to the expanses of the Universe. Right in the middle of those would probably be the Earth’s moon. With the only restriction being that they needed to represent the phases of the moon, the sixth graders blasted off in every direction with their ideas for executing this project. As you can see, there is a wide variety of ways the phases of the moon can be portrayed including refrigerators, mobiles, Wii remotes as well as the classic cow jumping over the moon.
mixed media
Conceptual Choices
A Sixth Grade Art Exhibition
Contemporary art is artwork made by living artists. Unlike much of historical art, contemporary artwork is inspired by a concept, an idea that drives the creation of the work. As their final artwork at Edgemont, it was decided to allow the sixth graders to do a free choice project. To serve as a starting point, the student’s were encouraged to create an artwork that represented them. This began by researching artist working with concepts or ideas that the student’s were interested in. These included cheerleading, basketball, friends, flying and dance. The idea or concept inspired what the artwork looks like and how it was made. Many students had to learn specific skills just to create this artwork. These artworks are their own with little to no adult influence.
mixed media
