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presents the 52nd Annual
Outdoor Art Festival
Buffalo, New York
Sat., June
13 - Sun., June 14, 2009
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
2008 Buffalo Public Schools Grant Award Winners
Aimee-Wieler Gunn - Highgate Heights #80
"Understanding Post-Modern African-American Artists Through Literary and Art-Making Experiences"
Ann Curthoys - Waterfront #95
"Kaleidoscope of Cloth-Using Textiles for Artistic Expression"
At Waterfront Elementary we are so pleased to have received Allentown Grants to supplement and enhance what we do artistically with our students.
My grant is called "A Kaleidoscope of Cloth". My sixth grade students will be exploring four different ways global cultures use cloth as part of their cultural and artistic heritage. The Cuna Indians of the San Blas islands make colorful mola cloth that is used as part of women's clothing, as well as for decorative purposes. Layers of cloth are stitched together and appliqued to make geometric designs or pictures. The Hmong people, who are originally from China, make decorative story cloths which illustrate tales of their history. In Ghana, Kente cloth is woven in strips, which are then sewn together into cloth. In that culture, specific patterns and colors announce your standing in the community. In Samoa, people use the inner bark of the mulberry tree to make bark cloth. After flattening and bleaching the cloth, it is stamped or painted with traditional designs that have been used for generations.
My hope is that my students will come to have an appreciation for the artistic talent and ingenuity of the cultures we will be studying, and in the process, produce some outstanding interpretations of their own!
Doreen Juszkiewicz - Waterfront #95
"We, The People…Cultural Connections in Building a Nation"
The title of my grant proposal is "We the People-- Cultural Diversity in Building a Nation." Many times students look at an art object as a single unit, with no connection to the time and place it was created. My goal is for students to understand the connections that occurred between cultural groups in the birth of America, and how art making is often determined by events, locations, and resources. Students will experience how to earn their wampum for future jewelry making, create a Carolina face jug out of clay, paint a limner portrait, and construct a freedom quilt square. By the end of our art making students will know that Native Americans, slaves, and early colonists did cross paths, and all contributed to the building of our nation.
Michelle Schroeder - Burgard HS #301 &
Carol Cureo - Bennett HS #200
"Screen Printing Shut In"
Rona Goldberger-Hecker - Community School #53
"Reaching Out of the Canvas, Into the World -
Canvas Painting and Assemblage Portraiture"
After exploring 2-D and 3-D portraiture, students will sand cast a gesture of their own hand that describes a personal statement about themselves. They will also create a plaster gauze mask of their own face and secure both to a self-stretched canvas. Students will decide on a composition that communicates their individual identity, personality or beliefs about themselves in the world in which they live. After discussing background techniques and brainstorming ideas, students will decide if the environment of their specific body parts support or are in conflict to their visual self portrait statements. The background will be painted with acrylics, visually incorporating or contrasting the cast hand and face. Ideally, they not only will create a physical likeness of themselves, but a psychological description to foster self awareness and understanding.
(Note: Finished canvases in photos are demo pieces, not student work.).
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