Art Department

Empty Bowls Video 2012

2012-01-21T08:03:00.003-05:00

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Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago

2012-01-12T23:00:00.004-05:00

One of my favorite museums is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. If you have never been .... you need to stop by.

However, if you have visited Chicago, I am sure you have been super close and didn't even realize it! The museum is just east of Michigan Avenue ... right behind the Water Tower Place (which is home to a Lego store and the American Girl Doll Store)

The MCA is a small museum so you can easily fit it into your itinerary when in Chicago. The exhibits are always interesting to any age! However, my children's favorite spot has always been at the bottom of their beautiful staircase at the fish pond!

If you are really pressed for time, they have an amazing gift shop, at the street level, that you do not need to pay admission to visit!

ZENTANGLE!!!!

2011-12-04T21:30:00.002-05:00

If anyone has sat next to me during meetings or lectures, you have seen my elaborate doodles. I have always been a better listener when I have a marker or pen in my hand. I even have a favorite black pen that I like to bring to meetings or lectures for this purpose.

I just found out what I have been doing all these years.... zentangling!

Check out the web site - Zentangle- however, I don't think you need a kit... just your favorite black marker!

Leonardo da Vinci

2011-11-22T13:18:00.005-05:00

Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519. He was a Renaissance genius who is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time, and possibly the most talented person who ever lived.

At the young age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione. He was exposed to many artistic skills including drawing, painting, sculpting, and modeling. By the age of twenty, Leonardo was qualified as a master in the guild of artists and doctors of medicine. His earliest known work is a drawing in ink of the Arno Valley, drawn on August 5, 1473. From then on, Leonardo worked in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Venice and France creating art that would create history.

In the 1480s, Leonardo created three well known pieces of art, St. Jerome in the Wilderness, the Adoration of Magi, and Virgin of the Rocks. Virgin of the Rocks is the only finished painting due to problems with completion and payment with the first two paintings.

Leonardo’s most famous painting from the 1490s is The Last Supper, painted in Milan. Unfortunately, Leonardo had used tempera as his surface, resulting in his painting flaking and molding quickly. Due to this problem, The Last Supper is one of the most reproduced works of art.

It was in the 16^th century that Leonardo created his most famous work of art, the Mona Lisa. To this day, no one knows why the woman is smiling. Many tests have been done on this mysterious painting, and one exposed a faint veil over the women’s face. In Leonardo’s time, women wore veils when they were pregnant. So it is assumed that she is smiling because she is pregnant. However, it is just a guess. Leonardo’s use of subtle shadowing around her mouth and eyes makes this an impossible puzzle to solve.

Throughout his life, Leonardo created works of art that astonish and inspire any artist who set eyes on his work. I admire Leonardo’s sense of mystery, and how his paintings leave questions unanswered. He pays a great deal of attention to the details and due to his artistic talent, has created beautiful masterpieces. Leonardo da Vinci was not just an artist. He was a genius.

By: Sansara Deshpande

8^th grade

Drawing by Jamie Raupp, Saline Middle School Art Student

2011-11-22T12:09:00.004-05:00

Jamie Nicolle Raupp, a young student in 8^th grade, has been taking art class for 10 years. Not only does she have pure passion for this activity, but she inspires others to feel the same way. One of her most favorite pieces of art was when she was in 7^th grade, her drawing of Winston Churchill. She told me, “This man was an inspirational leader of England. He was the Prime Minister of England during World War ll.” pausing to take in her amazing poetic words, she then said, “I enjoy this piece quite much, because it shows off the roughness of lead when applied in different shades like the rough war that divided the world.”

These words touched my heart. I truly felt the meaning of her art. Not only can she draw incredibly, but she can feel her masterpiece. So the next the time my pencil touches the canvas, I will remember the internal pain she lets out on her paper creating sparks of beauty.

Written by Catherine Marchenko, 8^th grade

11-11-11 CRANBROOK

2011-11-10T23:04:00.003-05:00

Cranbrook Art Museum is re-opening 11-11-11! Check out their website for more information on the ongoing events! Cranbrook Museum There are lots of events for artists of all ages!
Not only do they have the "Saarinen House"
but they also have artwork from the recent alumna that just spoke at U of M... Nick Cave!

Pittsfield Township Hall Art Show

2011-11-10T15:21:00.008-05:00

The Saline Area Schools Art Department is holding an art show at the Pittsfield Township Hall from now until January 6th, 2012. The hall is located at 6201 W. Michigan Ave (across from Burger King). The main entrance is around back and the show is located just through the doors. Township business hours are Mon. – Fri. from 8:00am – 5:00pm. Please stop in and see the talent of our terrific Saline students!

Art Project, powered by Google

2011-11-09T13:15:00.002-05:00

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces! Explore the great masterpieces from museums such as Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy or the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam by cilcking on www.googleartproject.com. You can :

Explore museums with Street View technology:virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore.
Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos.
Create your own collection: the ‘Create an Artwork Collection’ feature allows you to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own personalised collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family.

Check out the visitor guide to learn how to use this site:

http://www.googleartproject.com/c/faq

by Janice Martin

Interesting Article

2011-11-08T14:46:00.002-05:00

Why The Arts Are Good For Business

This is a great article as to why more than ever the arts programs are relevant in the education of today's student.

Janet Hughes

Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

2011-11-03T22:07:00.003-04:00

USA Today created a list of the 10 Great Sculpture Gardens Across the USA.
One of them was right in our backyard!
The Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Canstruction

2011-10-26T08:53:00.007-04:00

This weekend at the Detroit Institute of Art there will be a charity event showcasing sculpture made out of cans! Yesterday over 17,000 cans were transformed into 8 very cool Detroit-inspired canstructures. These will be on display starting today through Sunday! To learn more about the event, please visit the Canstruction web site.

Canstruction Detroit | Channel 7 | DIA | Canstruction

Graffiti Art

2011-10-21T06:10:00.006-04:00

9th Annual Teen Graffiti Art Exhibit

Now through October 27, 2011 -- Malletts Creek Branch: Exhibits

The AADL Teen Graffiti Contest is an annual event held during Ann Arbor's summer Art Fairs. Teens gather in the staff parking lot of the Downtown AADL to try their hand at the art of graffiti.

Each young artist receives a four-by-four foot board and a variety of colors of spray paint. The end result of the contest is a display of a multitude of styles and levels of talent for the community to enjoy in this brilliant exhibit.

2011-10-14T18:30:00.002-04:00

Art is all around! A current exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago has an exhibit about artists who have illustrate ABC's children's books!
ARTFUL ALPHABETS: FIVE PICTURE BOOK ARTISTS
June 11–November 6, 2011
Picture Book Gallery
Ryan Education Center
Illustrator Mordicai Gerstein sees sculptural letters formed out of creatures. Chris Raschka portrays a man and his cat in an alphabet adventure. Mary Thelen’s colorful pictures of shapes and lines illustrate a toe-tapping text, while Stacy Innerst explores the world of music from A to Z in paintings on board and tin. Hand-colored woodblock prints by Mary Azarian explore the garden theme and expand vocabulary with word and picture. All of these artists prove that are as many artful ways to illustrate the ABCs as there are ways to see the world.

de Kooning: a Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art

2011-10-14T14:01:00.010-04:00

The exhibit includes selected paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Willem de Kooning (American, b. the Netherlands, 1904–1997). Among these are some of the artist’s most famous, landmark paintings—including Pink Angels (c. 1945),Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950–53)—plus examples from all of his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black-and-white compositions of 1948–49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid-1950s to the artist’s return to figurations in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.

As a painter, de Kooning has been a huge influence on my own personal work since graduate school. His gestural brushwork, color sense, and the scale of his canvases are most impressive. To find get more information about this exhibit, click on the moma website listed below.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/dekooning/

Google Doodle honors Gumby Creator Art Clokey's 90th birthday

2011-10-12T13:32:00.007-04:00

Google on Wednesday celebrated the 90th birthday of Gumby creator Art Clokey with an interactive stop motion homepage doodle featuring well-known characters from the Gumby series.

The doodle, which went live on international Web sites yesterday, features a child's block with the letter "G" followed by five balls of colored clay for the remaining letters in the search giant's logo. Click on the balls of clay and Gumby characters will appear—The Blockheads, Prickle and Goo, Gumby himself, and Pokey. They pose for a moment before melting into a pile of clay and rolling back into a ball.

Click on www.google.com to watch the characters in action!

Go to gumbyworld.com for the latest on the iconic green toy and other characters.

Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series

2011-10-11T21:09:00.002-04:00

Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series

Brought to you from the Michigan School Art & Design, the Penny Stamps Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public.

I can not wait to see Nick Cave speak about his "soundsuits" on November 10th! More on him later.....

Excitng Art Exhibit at University of Michian Art Museum

2011-10-09T22:57:00.002-04:00

http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-mimpressions.php

Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints

July 16–October 23, 2011

This exhibition presents works by forty-one leading printmakers from contemporary China to showcase the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years.

I just visited this exhibit..... AMAZING! It will only be at the UMMA for a few more weeks... so hurry!!!

Public Art Memorial Ready For 10th Anniversary

2011-09-08T07:46:00.011-04:00

The 9/11 memorial created for the Saline Fire Department is hanging outside the fire station on Michigan Avenue. Over the past month, the Saline Art Department, Saline Fire Department, and the Saline community worked together to create this public art piece titled, “ Holding Heroes in our Hearts – Never Forget 343”. The memorial was created to honor the 343 New York Firefighters that lost their lives
September 11, 2001.

The involvement of the Saline community is what makes this memorial so special. Community members helped create the artwork by writing the names of the 343 firefighters on the background. Children of all ages did their part by pressing their painted hands over the firefighters names. Local businesses and organizations helped out by donating time, space, and their expertise. People of all ages shared their memories, experiences, and emotions of what happened that day.

Special thanks to the following: Steve Jedele of Steve's Custom Signs, Chelsea Lumber, Saline Farmer's Market, Saline Community Fair, Cindy Larsen for hand inspiration and to many others who took time to write a name or print their hand.

Holding Heroes in Our Hearts - Never Forget 343

2011-08-22T12:20:00.004-04:00

9/11 Anniversary Memorial

The Saline Art Department and the Saline Fire Department are working together on a public memorial commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The memorial will be hung outside of the Saline Firehouse facing Michigan Avenue.

We are inviting the Saline Community to help us complete this piece of art at two upcoming events.

Saline Farmer’s Market - Downtown Saline S. Ann Arbor Street
Saturday, August 27th 8 am - 12 pm
Please stop by to help write the names of the 343 Firefighters whose lives were lost on September 11, 2001.

Saline Fair Grounds in the Saline Area Schools Merchant Barn
Tuesday, August 30th 12 pm – 4pm
Pre-School – 12th Grade Students please stop by to print your hands over the written heroes names.

Saline-Milan Patch

9/11 Memorial NYC

2011-08-14T20:58:00.006-04:00

Please take a moment to learn about the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

Click Here!
9/11 Remembered

Google Art Project

2011-07-28T11:35:00.005-04:00

Go to a museum without leaving your house! Google has a spectacular site to give you a virtual tour inside 17 museums from all over the world. You can wander the halls and galleries in a 360 degree view and zoom in on work to study incredible detail.

Museums include:

* Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany
* Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA
* The Frick Collection, NYC - USA
* Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA
* MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA
* Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain
* Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain
* Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic
* National Gallery, London - UK
* Palace of Versailles - France
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
* The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia
* State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia
* Tate Britain, London - UK
* Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy
* Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Click here to visit!

Reality Street Painting

2011-07-19T19:47:00.004-04:00

A unique way to use a car is like a brush. Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh used eco-friendly paint to create a performance piece in a Berlin intersection. I might be slightly upset that I got paint all over my car, but to see the results as a very interesting way to record our movements would be really cool. I suppose that this would be quite a distraction in any intersection. The German motorists in this video deserve all the credit as they keep things together and don't create an accident.

Check it out!

Picasso Stolen

2011-07-06T20:37:00.004-04:00

A thief walked into a San Francisco gallery, took a Picasso drawing off the wall, and then left in a taxi. It sounds like it took the robber as long as it is taking you to read this. Why? I always say this when someone steals art. Why? Don't you just wonder why they felt it was so important to steal a work of art? The worst thing of all is that the robber has ruined it for everyone else. Now nobody will be able to enjoy, appreciate, and learn from that drawing.

Check it out.

Optical Illusions

2011-06-21T06:32:00.001-04:00

Need a break? Have some fun with your visual perception. Click here.

Chalk Drawings

2011-06-14T18:54:00.006-04:00

Art student from Woodland Meadows are highlighting the way to summer break. Dynamic chalk drawings grace the sidewalks along the Woodland loops. With such perfect weather, the drawings will be around for as long as the children are in school. Thanks for making our school so colorful!

Duct Tape Art

2011-06-03T07:57:00.007-04:00

Local artist Pete Warburton turns a sticky situation into an interesting representation. This morning I decided to finally stop in at the Biggby coffee shop and see Mr. Warburton's work after reading about it in the Ann Arbor newspaper a few weeks ago. Why is it so hard to just stop and look? It was worth it to stop and look this morning. With a hot cup of Michigan Cherry coffee in hand, I looked at several pieces that he created with a variety of techniques using duct tape. If you didn't know, duct tape is all the rage with students these days. Student jewelery, prom dresses, and cell phone accessories. Earlier this school year a student tried to sell me a cell phone holder constructed out of duct tape. Yes, I placed an order, but weeks later I was told that the family business never made it off the ground. Anyway, if you have the chance to visit the coffee shop between now and June 7th, I think that you will enjoy the show.

MLive | AnnArbor.com | Beverly Kaye Gallery |

7th Annual Circle of Art

2011-05-11T15:31:00.000-04:00

The Circle of Art is a charity event that helps raise money for Food Gatherers. Local artists donate art work for the auction, and in turn, 100% of the bid goes to Food Gatherers.

Go online to take a look at all of the work, including work from members of the Saline Art Department!

Christine Marsh

Laura Laatsch

Cindy Larsen

Kevin McCown

Janice Martin

Cyndi Koppleman

The charity event takes place on Sunday, May 15th from 12 to 5p.m.

Circle of Art

Spring Arts Festival May 6-8

2011-05-06T16:00:00.001-04:00

The Spring Arts Festival begins today at the Saline High School. Art work from grades K-12 will be on display. Please come out to enjoy the many works by Saline's talented students.

Empty Bowls Are Filled With Success!

2011-03-30T17:00:00.003-04:00

Cindy Larsen, Janet Hughes, Cyndi Koppleman

The 2011 Saline Area Schools Empty Bowl event is proud to announce that Food Gathers was presented with a check for $2,820.97 from the ticket sales and celebrity bowl auction! What a pleasure to be part of such a terrific event. We were able to showcase what wonderful ceramic programs Saline Schools has, all while raising money for charity. In addition, the Saline Art Department would like to announce that we plan on holding a 2nd Empty Bowls for 2012! Because the event sold out, please be sure to order your tickets in advance and help us continue to raise money for Food Gathers. Look for more details during the 2011-2012 school year.

Saline-Milan Patch

2011 MAEA Honors

2011-03-21T15:34:00.001-04:00

Congratulations to the following Saline students for receiving honors in the 2011 Michigan Art Education Association Show!

Click here for a video!

High School 3D------Top 100

Emily LoPresto - Saline High School

Grace Bowe

High School 2D---Top 100

Meredith Robson Saline High School

Lauren Branch

Middle School—Top 100

Gillian Hartley Saline Middle School

Middle School-Top 15 and MDE (Michigan Department of Education)

Lily Earl---MDE Saline Middle School

Elementary---Top 15

Noah Holloway Woodland Meadows Elementary

Grace Woodruff Harvest Elementary

Elementary-Top 100

Max Bauer Woodland Meadows Elementary

Shalen Murphy Harvest Elementary

March is Youth Art Month

2011-03-01T15:44:00.004-05:00

Saline Public Library will be showing K-6 student art during the month of March. Art from Pleasant Ridge, Harvest, Woodland Meadows, Heritage, and the Middle School will be on display from March 1st - March 27th. Stop in to see the wide variety of work while you hunt for an art related book. Also, travel through the past school years with the permanent collection throughout the library.

Saline Public Library
March 1st - March 27th

Location:
555 N. Maple Road Saline, MI 48176

Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9 am - 9 pm
Friday & Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm

Goalie Masks

2011-02-27T10:39:00.005-05:00

The evolution of the goalie mask has developed over the years since the very first mask worn by Jacques Plante. Now the youngest goalies all the way up to the NHL wear masks like a canvas. Many exemplify team pride and some go beyond, making a very personal connection to the player behind the mask. To check out more goalie mask artwork, visit the website of David Arrigo, an artist that works in the art of sport.

David Arrigo Masks | NHL Hall of Fame

Empty Bowls Update Part 3 - Harvest

2011-01-28T16:00:00.003-05:00

These are a few of the bowls designed and glazed by the 3rd graders of Harvest. In the picture from left to right is Samantha Rice, Reagan Recchia, Noah Nelson, Jason Head, Erin O'Neill

Harvest 3rd grade students made 130 bowls by rolling out slabs of clay, pressing in design "pads" and pressing them into different shaped molds. After a bisque firing in the kiln, the students glazed all the bowls with two coats of glaze and bowls were fired again to achieve the beautiful colors you see in this picture.