Art

The fine arts program at The Woodlands Preparatory School offers a wide array of required and elective classes in art, music. For Lower School students, weekly music classes in all grades are supplemented by instrumental lessons A diverse program in the visual arts introduces children to a spectrum of artistic media and includes an introduction to great artists from the past. In the Upper and Middle Schools, visual art subjects include drawing, painting, ceramics, 2-D and 3-D design, sculpture, printmaking, art history and criticism.

Students are encouraged to submit their work for exhibitions and competitions in the school and community.

A View from Under the Umbrella….

Sketchbooks! Sketchbooks! Sketchbooks! Each WPS artist has his/her own sketchbook and each is exploring the use of line, one of the main elements of art. Lower school students are exploring the design elements of design while middle and upper school students are working on sketchbook and major compositions featuring contour lines and design elements.

For an artist, the sketchbook is a working piece of art; a receptacle for ideas, dreams, exercises, techniques, plans, maps, and notes. A record of the world without and the world within, drawing is a learnable skill that has opened new worlds and ways of thinking for many. The sketchbook your artist will complete this year will ultimately reflect the advice and observation of Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro: “It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”

The importance of drawing and its link to understanding, learning, and creativity, Frederick Franck in The Zen of Seeing, observes: “I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.”


Best regards,
Sherry Morris-Imhoff (Mrs. Sherry)

Hearts for Haiti:

The newly organized WPS art club spent every Friday morning in February painting small hearts and other designs on WPS students and faculty in return for a contribution to aid the victims of the earthquake. Painters included Katy Fruend, Erick Silva, Ariana Miagro, Summer Nasser, Hailey Gaige, Taylor Powell, Waverly Spratt, and Camille Theiry.

 

Below please find a listing of our artists who placed in the Bush Memorial Museum’s 2010 Art Contest: American Agriculture: Traditions and Innovations . Woodlands Preparatory artists entered over 100 pieces of art work and thirty-three of our artists will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. All participants received certificates of participation and I am very proud of everyone of our artists. First and second place winners will be on display and first place winners will become part of the permanent museum collection. Winners are reminded to rsvp to 979-691-4006 or bush.education@nara.gov by April 9. We hope that all winners and their families will plan to attend, as a very special guest is expected. We advise parents to pick participating students up by 2:00 that day as driving time will be at least 1 and ½ hours. Please have students wear school uniforms and don’t forget your cameras!

We will plan an art show featuring all our work when bring it home after the competition so everyone can see the work. Additionally, many of the pieces can be viewed now on the website under art and on the x drive.

Honorable Mention: K-2nd grades:
Victoria Osmond with Mallard Melody
Team Project: Wreath of Wellness by Voon Joo Goh and Krithi Palwai
Team Project: Slithering Solutions to Small Garden Pests by Ian Alvarez, Taylor Clunn, Ugo Oguamanam, Cameron Siddiqi, and Jacob Staton
Third Place: K-2nd grades:
Team Project: Country Vet Clinic by Meagan Kwatra and Mia Martinez
Second Place: K-2nd grades:
Mia Bailey with Drying Peppers and Herbs; A Texas Tradition
Anna Staton with The Prairie in Bloom
Team Project: American Agriculture by Nora Alizadeh, Natalie Halaris, Hugo Murillas, Ara Odelowo, Allie Postus, Chesnie Russell, and Abigail Stanosheck
First Place: K-2nd grades:
Tina Varela with Herding the Long Horns: The Blue Heeler

Honorable Mention: 3rd-5th grades:
Team Project: Moving On: Horsepower Revisited by Matthew Barton, Phillip Milner and Daniel Santos
Third Place: 3rd-5th: Madeleine Frere with Feet First
Second Place: 3rd-5th: Team Project: Aquaculture by Said Aram, Rodrigo Lopez-Arteaga, and Jack Strachan

Honorable Mention: 6th-8th grades:
Jacquline Ritchie with Heir to the Hereford Line
Kevin Tighe with Ready for Planting: Tilling the Fields
Camille Thierry with Perfume of the Prairies
Third Place: 6th-8th:
Maryam Aram with Building Strong Bones
Vittoria de Ceglie with Yellow and Red: Great Texas Spreads
Maria Paramo with EEE-IIII, EEEE-IIII, OOOHH!

First Place for 9th-12th grades: Nena Untung with We Grow Organic! Produce by the Texas Department of Corrections