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A Scope of The Practicing Artist

Art class is a place where we learn about other artists and the various ways art is made. Young artists will be building portfolios of artifacts that document their learning. Merely achieving beauty is less important than what is learned from our daring, artistic experiments. Our main goal in art class is to simply experience different modes of creating, and to transfer what we've learned to personal art making, and all other realms of life.

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La clase de arte es un lugar donde aprendemos sobre otros artistas y las diversas formas en que se hace el arte. Los artistas jóvenes construirán carteras de artefactos que documenten su aprendizaje. Simplemente lograr la belleza es menos importante que lo que se aprende de nuestros atrevidos experimentos artísticos. Nuestro objetivo principal en la clase de arte es simplemente experimentar diferentes modos de creación, y transferir lo que hemos aprendido a la creación de arte personal, y todos los demás ámbitos de la vida.

Desplácese hacia abajo y haga clic en los hilos para ver el arte de los estudiantes y aprender más sobre la clase de arte, con la Sra.

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ABOUT MS. MATTICE

  • Born: Nov. 30th, 1988 in Upstate NY

  • Associates of Fine Arts Associates, 2010, Hudson Valley Community College

  • Bachelors of Art Education, 2013, State University of NY at New Paltz

  • Masters of Elementary Education, 2018, University of Northern Colorado

  • Preschool Teacher, 2014-2018, Northern Colorado

  • Elementary Art Teacher at APS, 2018- Present

Ms. Mattice's Favorites....

  • Mediums- Acrylic paint, watercolor, oil pastel, and ceramics

  • Music- Jazz, Rock, Blues, Reggae, Samba, Folk, Blue Grass, Funk

  • Art Movements- Surrealism, Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism, Dada, Kitch, Earth Art, Iconoclastic, 

  • Authors- Mitch Albom &  Roald Dahl

  • Weekend activities- Hiking,  singing and playing music with friends, painting, drawing, sewing, cooking, going out to see art or live music

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Drawing Roses

A first grade artist drew these roses while watching this instructional video: This activity teaches to the following 2020 Colorado State...

Drawing Dinosaurs

Alex's Brontosaurus Aung's Dinosaurs Ms. Mattice shares tips for drawing T-Rex and brontosaurus dinosaurs. This activity teaches to the...

Iconic Artists to Appreciate

(N.A. Francisco Goya. Wikipedia. WEB 2020) (N.A. Summary of Alberto Giacometti, The Art Story. Web 2020.) (N.A. Georgia O'Keeffe,...

Wildlife Art - Interdisciplinary Studies

2nd grade read Eric Carle's, "The Greedy Python." They hypothesized the steps Eric Carle took to create his illustrations. Students then...

Drawing Ponies- Animal Stories in Art

This next horse drawing and photo is in memory of a student's family pet. You can tell the pony and family loved each other very much....

Flags - Art of Values, Culture & Beliefs

5th grade designed these flags after investigating the universally traditional art of flag design. Students discussed how national flags...

Shape Scavenger Search

Most of what we draw is constructed of simple geometric and organic shapes. Before drawing, you need to find two or three objects that...

Colorado Art - Artist's Intentions

2nd Grade set a goal to show Colorado through two different forms of visual art. First they practiced drawing the mountain lion, a...

Art History Appreciation Drawings

van Gogh Da Vinci Teacher's Examples: Ducksters Art History For Kids: https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/ Ducksters is a wonderful...

Narrative Drawing- Responding to Art

Students looked at Chuck Boucher's illustration (first image) and asked themselves, "What book is the character reading? How is the...

Monochromatic Painting- Planning

This lesson was loaded with planning methods, from sketching thumbnails to plan designs for large compositions, to drawing the grayscale,...

Black Sheep, Black Sheep What Do You See?

Kindergarten grade made adorable sheep and fish portraits after reading Eric Carle's, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" After...

Abstract Expressionism

These are mixed media expressions made by 4th grade students. In art class, we discussed abstract expressionism to be unrecognizable...

Sharing Your Art

Use Google Drawings to document your art, and share it with the virtual art class community: 1. Click Link to Google Drawings, or copy...

Teacher's Spring Break Art

I've capitalized on our two week long spring break by deeply immersing and reflecting upon my own creative process. In this time, I have...

City Settings and Characters - Narrative Art

First grade began by looking at cityscape panoramic drawings by Stephen Wiltshire. They read about his process of first seeing a city...

My Dream Home- Media Choice Intentions

Look through some more mixed media examples. What materials did the artist use, and why did they choose to use them? How do the materials...

Art Speaks- Visual Communication

Students defined "artistic intentions," as what a piece of art is intended to be about. They looked at famous examples, analyzing what...

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