ALL ART CLASSES; Get to know your 4FOURS!

Adopt Our Art Room

Art students often wish we had more money for more (or better) art supplies & resources. Here's a way we can reach out for help. Aadoptaclassroom.org provides a way for people to help our Art program! Please look it over and consider how you can help. Please also pass this along to anyone you think would be willing and able to make a donation! Thank You.

Art Shows

Like art? Like the Loess Hills? Visit the Cultural Center in Moorhead Iowa and enjoy their "Celebrate the Hills" art exhibit between now and October 28th. Bring your parents & friends.

This show includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings by local artists. This year's is one of the biggest shows they've had in years. The participants have captured the spirit of the hills and depict natural landscapes at all times of year.

Start painting, because they have plans to add a youth category next year, so that you'll be able to enter your own artworks in the exhibit.

In the Spring, the Center features a Prose, Poetry & Photography Competition. They'd love to have you visit, and to participate!

Last Spring, Boyer Valley English teacher Kris Johnson helped judge the poetry & photography show and last month, BV Art teacher Ted Mallory adjudicated the 2013 art show. See what he considered prize worthy and cast your own vote for the "people's choice awards."

To learn more about the Moorhead Cultural Center, or to find out how to participate in the upcoming Poetry & Photography show, or next year's Celebrate the Loess Hills art show, call Carolyn Archer at (712) 886-5415 or Phyllis Easton at (712) 886-5114

The Fantastic Fours of Art

The 3 'Okes!

Paintings should try to do this. Great Photos should try to do this too. Probably not a bad goal for writing too.

1. When you look at an artwork of any kind, what mood do they invoke by how they used the elements? 
2. What things to they evoke for you? 
3. Was it meant to be provocative? If so, how does it challenge you? Does it make you uncomfortable? Why?

All Boyer Valley Art Students

Mark your calendars for two Art Shows that 9-12 grade students should participate in next Spring.

• Sioux City Art Center's 22nd Annual Juried Youth Art Exhibition February 18-April 8
  >Works must be delivered January 5-11
  >Details in Guidelines coming in November
  >Reception/Awards Sun. Feb, 19 1:30-3pm
• Western Valley Conference Art Show Thursday March 22
  >Either Ida Grove or Odebot (TBA)
  >Up to 10 BV students  may attend 

Boyer Valley Students recognized at WVC Art Show

The Western Valley Conference (WVC) Art Show was held in Moeville, Iowa Thursday, March 24. Thirteen of the nineteen schools in the conference participated. Each school was permitted to enter as many as fifty artworks. The show was juried by judges from the Sioux City Art Center and Morningside College.

BV Senior Melissa Hanigan received a Judge's choice award for her interpretation of Boccioni, Umberto's 1912 futurist painting, "Elastic." Junior Madison McDonough also received a judge's award for her photograph of Natalie Lapke. Junior Rosario Nelson was honored with a teacher's choice award for her ceramic sculpture of a praying angel.

Other Boyer Valley students who submitted drawings, paintings, photos, and sculptures included Freshmen Katie Cogdill and Chelsey Kermin; Juniors Makayla Carter and William McClure; and Seniors Stephanie Brink, Lucas Neilsen and Nick Sullivan.

Students from Westwood, Ridge View, OA/BCIG, and Whiting won first place for each class level. Senior Dalton Peterson from Woodbine won Best of Show. 

Next year the WVC Art Show will be hosted jointly by ArWeVa and OA/BCIG and is expected to be held in Ida Grove on the third Thursday in March. Boyer Valley is slated to host the conference art show in 2013.

 Ceramic angel by Senior Rosario Nelson

"Elastic," oil pastel on canvas by Senior Melissa Hanigan

Natalie points the finger, photo by Junior Maddie McDonough

IWCC Art Competition

Iowa Western Community College

2011 Juried Art Competition

CASH AWARDS – awards of $25, $50, or more

April 1-2, 2011

Entries / Inventories DUE

8:30 am to 5:00 pm

IWCC Arts Center

$5.00 per entry

All 9^th, 10^th, 11^th & 12^th grade students in Iowa & Nebraska are eligible to participate.  All work must be hand delivered and picked up on designated dates (No mail or van deliveries).  Only two-dimensional or three-dimensional entry categories may be submitted.  2D work must be matted, but not framed.  3D work must be 25 lbs. or less / assembled by entrant.  Each school must provide an inventory sheet identifying all entries and payment method.  No portfolios.

April 4, 2011

Pickup non-selected artwork

8:30 am to 4:30 pm

IWCC Art Center

April 9-15, 2011

Exhibit at IWCC Arts Center

9:00 am to 3:00 pm

April 15, 2011

Workshops / Program / Award Presentation

8:30 am -11:30 am

Workshops (Pre-registration required)

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Program / Award Presentation

Winners, other art students, faculty and parents are welcome

Presentation of awards

Take artwork home

Please contact Rob Walters at 712-388-7158 or rwalters@iwcc.edu

to register for workshop or if you have any questions.

"Keep the Art Room Beautiful" ~Roy G. Biv

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Mr. Mallory's Theory of Everything

Truly, this could probably go on forever. Just the "Utility" bubble alone could branch off indefinitely. In fact, that may be a good lesson, to have kids brainstorm as many uses for art as possible (and thereby also art-related vocations).

Mr. Mallory's Theory of Everything

Physicists have their string theory, their M theory, and are always looking for a theory of everything. This is my own personal theory of all Art.

My college professors made sure that I understood about Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE)
The four Art disciplines (things we study about Art) are:
1. Art History
2. Aesthetics (Design)
3. Art Production and...
4. Art Criticism

In terms of Aesthetics, you use the principles of design to arrange the elements of design.

I tell my students that good design should:
-Capture your attention
-Hold your attention and...
-Direct your attention



I may have over simplified things here, but I teach my students that there are basically four kinds of art:
1. Utilitarian (commercial/communication/implements)
2. Realistic/Descriptive (what most people assume constitutes skilled artists)
3. Compositional (manipulating the elements and principles of design)
4. Expressive (Art with meaning/impact or cathartic/therapeutic value)

I tell them that expressive art should always be able to:
-Invoke cultural symbols and common psychological states of mind
-Evoke powerful memories and experiences and
-Provoke thinking, emotional and intellectual reactions, or at least meaningful discussion

Drawing

Writing/Reflection for our first major drawing- a modified contour drawing of your hand.

First, students were asked to score themselves on a scale of 0-4 (4 being highest) on each of the five perceptual skills needed for drawing, as well as how much better they think their drawings have been getting.

• Perception of Edges
• Perception of Spaces (composition)
  
• Perception of Relationships (proportions)
• Perception of Values (shading)
• Gestalt (Wholeness, One-ness, finished-ness)
• Improvement

Then the students were asked a number of short-answer questions. The first three pertained to the process of creating the artwork. The second four have to do with the finished product, the drawing itself, using the 4 steps in Art Criticism.

1. Did you lose tack of time?
2. Did the drawing at some point become interesting to you? (Captivating/Intriguing?)
3. Did you experience any distraction from your (left hemisphere) verbal mode? If so, how did you escape it?
   
   
4. In 10 words or less, simply describe your drawing. (This question focuses on the Sensory Elements of Design; line, shape, space, shading, etc. Description is pretty low on Bloom's Taxonomy of critical thinking skills.)
5. What about your drawing will capture and maintain a viewer's attention? (This questions forces them to analyze their artwork, analysis is a little higher up Bloom's Taxonomy, and this pushes them into considering the Formal Principles of Design)
6. What does you drawing make you think of? What do you think it will make viewers think of? How do you think viewers will feel if they look at it for a long time? What is the mood of your drawing? What would you title your work? Write a poem to accompany your work. (this series of questions have the students interpreting their own work, another step up the taxonomy, this one more imaginative and reflective, but more subjective.)
7. What grade do you believe you deserve on this assignment and why? (This question involves using judgment/self-assessment, but forces them to articulate their reasoning. They already have criteria with the 0-4 rating system that they started with.)