Goleta Union School District Art Show

Celebrating 25 artists from Mountain View and Brandon Schools. Congratulations to all my students for a creative and engaging year!

Elementary School Art Show

Tonight is the opening night of Mountain View's Annual Spring Art Show. This is what the kids look forward to all year (well, at least as far as art class is concerned!). Each child has a piece selected for them (it's a surprise until the art is mounted). PTA volunteers staple the art onto long sheets of paper and then the paper is stapled to the wall at one end. It isn't the end of art class though. I still have six more weeks with my first through fifth grade students. Congratulations, kids. I love your art!

Art Show!

The school year has come to a close and for Brandon School,
our first ART SHOW
was an end-of-the-year hit.
All art shows are a labor of love...countless hours creating the art but an equal amount of hours sorting, selecting, mounting and hanging. At the schools where I teach, the art shows are held indoors in our multi-purpose rooms. They're much smaller than gymnasiums and are meant for assemblies, plays, meetings, etc. The MPR's are our only indoor rooms, with the exception of administration offices and classrooms. This is typical in California where we have no corridors or hallways to pass through. We hang our art on wires that are fixed to the ceilings. This allows us to create little walkways in which to view the art.
Here are a few pictures of our gallery...

Art Shows

Been quite busy the past few weeks organizing art shows, thus, the lack of new posts. Sorry! My last show is tonight but I couldn't wait to upload a few pictures from the Foothill show last week. Thanks to Colton's mom, Janey (shown left) who always does a fantastic job of hanging the art. Thanks, Janey!
Also, congratulations to the students whose art I chose for the Goleta Union School District art show in May. I'll post the art and names later this weekend....Now more art show pics.