Bacich Elementary Art Blog

Please join us for the grand opening of our 2nd annual  Bacich Box Art Show  Open House: April 9, 2015 6:00-7:30  Bacich Art Room and Bacich Library (The Box Show will be on display for the month of April 2015) The Bacich Box Show TK -4 th  grade The Bacich Box Show Installation is based on the “Pt. Reyes Box Show”, an annual art event organized as a fundraiser for the Art Gallery Route One in Pt.Reyes. Wooden boxes are altered and decorated by local artists and auctioned off at the closing of the event.    Our large size school community of 704 students lends itself well to create a powerful visual installation by creating our very own “Box Show”. For the Bacich Box Show students had the opportunity to alter a cardboard tissue box into an exquisite piece of art. A contemporary artist was assigned to each grade level, (please see below).   Students were guided to use the tissue box as a building block to create sculptures bas...

During the months February and March,  all  "Bacich Bears"(TK-4th grade) will be working on a school wide art project titled "The Bacich Box Show.”    Students will have the opportunity to alter a tissue box into an exquisite piece of art. I have assigned a contemporary artist to each grade level, (please see below).  I will guide the students to use a tissue box as a building block to create sculptures based on the assigned artist's work.  Artist Theme and Concept: 4th grade: Henry Moore, wire coat hanger and nylon stocking, semi-abstract sculpture 3rd grade: Louise Nevelson, wood assemblage shadow box 2nd grade: Peruvian Folk Art, Arpillera box 1st grade: Nava Lubelski, recycled, rolled paper shadow box  TK and K: Laurel Burch, whimsical cat box  Thank you to everyone who helped collect empty tissue boxes for this exciting project. It was   a community effort to collect  704 boxes, one for every Bacich student! ...

KINDERGARTEN       Fabric Collage Collage is a form of art which originated from France in the early 20th century, which means literally “gluing”. The word describes the composition of different materials affixed to a backing.  In this project, the students made their selections of fabrics of varying textures, designs and color and then arranged them to cover the entire picture plane. Though simple, planning and making their collages took the children out of their usual ‘box’ - and into a fun process of composition and designing with materials other than their everyday paint and crayons! 1st GRADE          Three-Dimensional Clouds  This art project was correlated with the first grade science curriculum “weather unit”.  After reading the story “Little Cloud” by Eric Carle, first grade students created a variety of different shaped clouds (i.e. sheep clouds, little clouds, big c...

Kindergarten: Winter Scene inspired by Grandma Moses: It has been feeling like winter all around our campus, and our Kindergarten students have been working on their Winter Landscape paintings.  Students were introduced to the life and works of the American Folk artist Grandma Moses. Students used different kinds of art tools, such as brayers, sponges and paint brushes to paint their winter landscapes. Following Grandma Moses’ style combined with basic sketching, drawing and coloring skills, students created their own interpretations of familiar and cherished family traditions that are celebrated during the winter months. 1 ST  GRADE: Polar Bears Portraits: To start this lesson we did a read aloud of the book: White Bear, Ice Bear by Janne Ryder. Using white chalk on black construction paper students sketched a polar bear portrait. Students used the sides of white chalk to rub a round shape for the head and a body.  Two smalle...