4th Grade wishes you a wonderful winter break!

4TH GRADE PUPPET DRAWINGS

PUPPET DRAWINGS

4TH GRADE PUPPET DRAWINGS

What is AUTOMATA?

Visit the site link for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre to learn more about automata and putting art in motion.

Our unit on sculpture that moves is paid for, in part, by a PNM Classroom Innovation Grant. Thank you PNM!

Two Manzano Day School students were among the nine finalists selected to display their artwork in Guadalajara, Mexico for The Sister Cities International Program.

Here is a note from their mother:

“The Sister Cities International Program began in 1956 as a creative force for international cooperation and goodwill through community action. Albuquerque’s participation in the program started in 1965 as the Albuquerque Sister Cities Committee and became the Albuquerque Sister Cities Foundation in 1983.

The Foundation interacts with the city government through the Albuquerque City Board, which serves to implement the city ordinance requiring "the promotion and encouragement of private and public programs to further the development of greater friendship and understanding between the people of Albuquerque and cities of other nations." Together, they sponsor programs designed to foster cultural and commercial exchange between Albuquerque and our sister cities.

The city of Guadalajara, Mexico invited Albuquerque Sister Cities to their city the last two weeks of October 2005, for an exposition and asked that the classes of art teachers, Joan Ire and Carol Allison, of the New Mexico Art League would paint works about what makes Albuquerque special.

Most of the kids who participated were in the 9 and 10 year old age group. The group was a mixture of more advanced or experienced painters with students who just started art classes and were all wonderful. Copies of the selected artwork are now being displayed at The Palace of The Governors.

I am attaching some photos I took of the awards ceremony. We have the framed original artwork and I am sure the girls would be happy to show you their work. They worked on their pieces once a week for three months and are very proud as I am :-).”

Twenty pictures from Manzano Day School have been chosen to represent the school in Pentel's 36th International Children's Art Exhibition in Japan. The vivid imagination of a child is the recurring theme for the event. Artwork is judged on the basis of originality, clearly expressed content and cultural expression. Winners will be announced in May or June of 2006. (Click on the link in the sidebar to see the 20 pictures on the MDS Vis Arts general blogspot.)

Madison, now a fourth grader, won top honors (Supreme Gold Award) in the 35th International Children's Art Exhibition for her artwork titled "My Cat." See the special interview featured in the Thanksgiving edition of the "Albuquerque Tribune." (Click on the link in the sidebar to read the interview by Jan Jonas.)

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