Memory Trail Opening

The clay tiles making up the Memory Trail art installation for 2009 were officially unveiled last week. Many thanks to the buildings and grounds committe, especially Greg Hallinan, Peter Gilpin and Paul Savy who constructed the frames, grouted the tiles and mounted the whole mural. I think the finished art work looks fantastic and will be a wonderful lasting contribution to our school by our exiting grade six students.

Now on to planning for next year!

The Art Show is Over!

I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the art show on Thursday night. We had a great turn out pretty good weather for the event. I would like to sincerely thank the team of parents who worked so hard to put up the displays, and Suryati Dzulzalani who put many hours into helping my husband and I take it all down again! Thanks also to all the fabulous staff members and parents who manned the bbq and bars, snow cone machine and raffle and donation tables, and looked after the multi media displays and entertainment stage on the night, to make this another successful and enjoyable SNPS event. A special thank you to Annette Sax and Sofie Xinopolous for their excellent Artist in Schools display and felting demonstration. Well done all! Hard work, but worth it when you see how much the children and parents enjoy this social occasion .

Here are a few pictures of the art work on display. I took some photos of people on the night but these will be displayed at school rather than on the net.

Only two years until the next show!

Cheers!

Anne Duke

The Art Show is Coming!

Now that the madness of the Royal Melbourne Show is over (well done all!) it is time to start organising the Art Show. This year it's being held on Thursday 22nd October from 5.00pm to 8.00pm. Along with the usual work from the art room we will be displaying the media projects the children have completed in computer classes, videos from LOTE and the work inspired by the Artists in Schools program. I have once again invited students to provide entertainment and a bbq and drinks will be available to purchase. We are also raffling a lovely wooden coffee table and a small metal angel-fish sculpture donated by an ex-student. I know the fish alone is valued at over $350! Well worth winning.
If any one can help put up displays on Tuesday 20th October I would be very grateful.
See you there!
Anne Duke

Royal Melbourne Show Entries 2009

Here are two pictures of a few of our entries in the Melbourne Show this year. Results come out next Thursday.

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Melbourne Show Entries 2009

We received our exhibitors' tickets last week and I am now flat out organising our entries which must be delivered to the showgrounds next Wednesday 9th September. We have 73 entries this year! Yes, 73! This includes a group entry made by all the grade 3/4 students and 3 animations made by groups of 5/6 children. Wow!
I thought my blog followers might be interested in viewing one of these videos made by Carly, Alana and Julia. Enjoy!

What's Happening in August in the Art Room?

It's all action (and a fair amount of mess and dust!) in the art room at the moment. The children from grades Prep to 2 are working on clay modelling projects, as are the grade 5/6 students who have made a veritable Jurassic Park of dinosaurs and begun their terracotta clay tiles for this year's Memory Trail activity. Hence, we have a room full of drying greenware, and a queue of work waiting for firing in the rapidly rusting kiln! Thanks to Mr Agar for some timely rivetting to keep it together a bit longer!

In grades 3 and 4, the children are mastering the technique of blanket stitch. This is being used, along with felt, paint and fabric textas to create a variety of Australian birds and animals. These will be velcroed to fabric-collaged murals, one of which, if all goes to plan, will be entered as a group project in the Royal Melbourne Show.

Thank you very much to our parent art room helpers Monica Macdonald, Joanne Deidtrich, Eunice Caligarri and Elaine Horton for assisting our children with the challenges of their various projects. Your help is invaluable!

This week Ms Sawada and myself will be selecting entries in the painting, drawing and collage classes for the Melbourne Show. Children will receive a note, if their work is selected, and asked to bring along the $5 entry fee.

We have entered about 70 items from our students this year, including cooking, knitting, scrapbooking, teddy bear making and jewelery. Wow! We have very talented children!

All the best

Anne Duke and Etsuka Sawada

Artists In Schools - August Update

The children in grades 3 and 4 have been working with Annette Sax to explore the fascinating process of felting on silk. The children thoroughly enjoyed this quite different experience and their beautiful silk and felt designs will be on display at the art show in October.
The children are now working on their own stories and following the illustrating process Annette is undertaking as she creates collaged pictures for her latest publication.