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….

Season?s Greetings to all! The studio has been a-buzz as student artists design and paint aprons, portfolios, and sketchbooks. Upper school students are working with portraits and learning to draw the human head while lower school students are beginning projects that coordinate with their PYP units of study.

If your student was an artist here at WPS last year, it is likely that he or she entered the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Contest. This year?s theme is Scientific and Medical Leadership in American Health. Here is the call: “Call for artwork featuring pioneering health innovations of American medical or scientific endeavors created by leaders in health fields to improve the lives of humankind. Other possible examples could be to model or depict specific healthy lifestyles that may contribute to longevity. The artwork may feature the leaders and/or reveal the historical benefit of the innovations. Historical and modern practices, past and current, may be used as examples.”
We will be starting to talk about this soon in class and your help and ideas would be appreciated. We have many parents involved in medical, engineering, chemical and other scientific fields. Sharing new or old techniques and solutions to medical and health challenges with your student artists would help generate ideas. Any original photos you could share for visual references would be welcome. Other details of the contest and information about the essay contest can be found on the museum website: http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/education/art_essay_contest. Dr. Shirley Hammond, who presented the students and Ms. Sherry with awards last year, is the creative
and capable director of Education at the Bush Museum. All entries are due by March 1st and the Awards Ceremony for winners will be on Thursday, April 14th, at 4:15 p.m. in the Annenberg Presidential Library Conference Center at Texas A&M.

I am often asked for gift suggestions for artist. This time of year, both Michael?s and Hobby Lobby have coupons in the paper and on line. A few suggestions: sketchbooks of different sizes, tortillions (blenders for shading), wash pencils (medium and dark), basic set of Prisma colors, calligraphy pens, gouache paints (in tubes…about $10 a box), basic set of acrylics, good picture books or photo books of subjects that interest your artist, good gum or art erasers, hand held pencil sharpeners, a portfolio for home.

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
 

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