Art

Welcome to Mrs. Roehling-Flynn's Art Page

Please check below Fun Art Links for assignments

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Art Work of the Week

Hole Punch, by Bobby, grade 7

Fun Art Links:

You Tube: The Reverse Graffiti Project

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Crayola

National Gallery of Art - Kids pages!

MoMa Destination Modern Art

Cartoon Critters: games, coloring pages, optical illusions and more!

Haring Kids

KinderArt

Making Oatmeal Box Pinhole cameras

Picassohead

Art Galleries & Museums

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

Vatican Museums

The Louvre

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Empty Bowls IX

Artists Helping Feed Western New York

Once again students in grades 5 - 8 will be participating in a community service project -

Empty Bowls. Students will create a "Bowl"depitcing their ideas on hunger. The bowls will be auctioned

off on May 20th, 2012, at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. All proceeds will benefit Frioends of Night

People and the Food Bank of Western New York. Below are photos of bowls created by

students last year.

Empty Bowls link

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Sewing Club

Sewing Club will meet with Mrs. Gehring & Mrs. Roehling-Flynn along with Mrs. Ross, on Tuesdays after

school until 4:00 p.m.

We have made pillows, skirts, Vera Bradley style handbags and pajama pants. This spring we will be

participating in Project HOPE Art, the girls will be making sundresses to send to

Nadine’s orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

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"Fly Above the Influence" - First Night Buffalo

Students in grades 4 - 8 participated in WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse Inc. "Fly Above the Influence" of drugs & alochol by designing Wings for WiNny, the drug free Buffalo. WiNny was unveiled at the First Night Buffalo press conference and was on display at the Buffalo Convention Center on December 31st from 5pm - 10pm. WiNny will travel to schools and other locations throughout the year!

First Night Buffalo Link

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Grade 8 Research paper outline & Ruberic - below:

8th Grade Research Paper Outline

Rubric for Research Paper

Visual Art Curriculum for Nativity of Mary

The visual art curriculum for Nativity of Mary School, is based upon the Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE) model for teaching the visual arts, the New York Standards for the Visual Arts and the Diocese of Buffalo Curriculum for the arts. The Diocesan Curriculum includes the NY State Curriculum with the addition of a 5th Religion Standard. Resources for instruction include: Big Books - Art Everywhere (k - 5, Harcourt publishing), Adventures in Art books (gr 3 & 5), Discovering Kindergarten, Scholastic Arts (4 - 8), and various series of visuals including posters, movies and reproductions. Classes meet once a week.

Sketchbooks, Grades 5 - 8
The goal for sketchbooks is to enhance our classroom study time. We concentrate on the formal elements & principles of design. Students are given one week to complete sketchbook assignments and are expected to work on them for at least 30 minutes. All assignments must be in the sketchbook, unless otherwise specified. Each day an assignment is late, one letter grade will be taken off.

Research Paper, Grade 8
The eighth grade research paper will be written on a 20th century/contemporary artist of the student's choice. A complete outline and rubric for this project will be given to the students. They will have 2-3 classes to work on them in school, provided they bring resources from the library or Internet. I have a wide variety of books, but they don’t circulate outside my classroom.

New York State Learning Standards for the Arts and the Elementary and Middle School Level, including the Diocesan Standard are:

Standard 1:
Creating, performing and participating in the Arts.
Students will actively engage in the process that constitute creation in the arts.
Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.

Standard 2:
Knowing and using art materials and resources.
Students will be knowledgable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation the arts.
Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes. Students will know about resources and opportunities for participation in visual arts in the community (exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries) and use appropriate materials (art reproductions, print materials, technology). Students will be aware of vocational options available in the visual arts.

Standard 3:
Responding to and analyzing works of art
Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.

Standard 4:
Understanding the cultural dimensions and contributions of the arts
Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.
Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics for the artwork. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society.

Standard 5: (Diocese of Buffalo)
Students will be guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church in all aspects of their art education.

Grading & Homework
Students will be graded on the following criteria:*Effort, Attitude and Talent (for example: if a student gives 100% effort but just doesn’t possess the skill and talent, they will not be penalized, however if a talented student only gives 70% because they think they don’t need to try, they will not receive full credit)
*Follow the Criteria of the project
*Neatness
*Respect for teacher, materials, other students and their artwork Awards

* Please refer to the Nativity Parent/Student handbook for homework policy.

Art awards will be based on:
*Christian attitude towards faculty, staff and other students
*All assignments must be completed on time
*Effort must be 100% for every project