RRAEA 5x5 Elementary Juried Exhibition

7th Annual 5” x 5” Elementary Juried Exhibition

Your students have the opportunity to win a Summer Art Camp Scholarship! 

Expectations, Guidelines, and Info: 
*5th Grade students are invited to create artwork to be submitted for this exhibition. 
*Each teacher is invited to choose 5 pieces of work to submit for this exhibition. 
*All artwork must be on 5” x 5” paper. 
*Submission date is March 25th, 2019 
*All submissions will be displayed at the 23rd Annual Elementary Art Exhibition. 
*Winners will be chosen by a blind jury. 
*Awards will be given to teachers to hand to students at RRISD Elementary Art Exhibition. 


For more questions or information please email roundrockartedassoc@gmail.com   

 Eligibility​: 
*Open to all RRISD ​5th Grade​ Elementary School Students.  
*Submitting teacher​ MUST​ be a RRAEA member. (Mrs. Shock is a member!)

5th Grade Pearson Ranch Art Field Trip

5th grade will have the opportunity to go over to Pearson Ranch to visit the Art Department. Band, Orchestra and Choir usually visits us in the Spring, but the art teachers at Pearson Ranch wanted an opportunity to show the kids what the Art room looks like in middle school.

We will be walking over during our normally scheduled specials time and doing a small project while we are there, then heading back to Elsa England.

Permission slips have gone home and need to be returned by Friday, December 15th. If you didn't receive on in your child's take home folder, you can download the link HERE and return it.

Calling All Comic Fans!

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Cats and Art!

Who knew cats and art went together so well?!

Nature, Math...ART!

Yes, Math and Science in Art! This is a great video that highlights the art of John Edmark.

JohnEdmarkTalk from Paul stepahin on Vimeo.

YAM Art Happenings

Important Elsa Englnd Art News! from Jennifer Shock

Art Jobs: Map Makers

There are lots of different jobs in the arts, and sometimes they happen unexpectedly.

Art Jobs: Origami?

This if for all my students who LOVE the origami  center in the art room!

Art Camp with Mrs. Shock

This summer, Mrs. Shock will be hosting her first Summer Art Camps! There will be 3 sessions this summer and each session will have a different theme.

For the week of June 12th to 15th, our theme is COLOR! We will be doing some very colorful projects that may involve interesting ways of getting color onto our artwork. The week will end with tie-dying our own shirts!

For the week of June 26th to 29th, our theme is Stars & Stripes. We will be making patriotic themed art, including some hammer-and-nail string art! 

For the week of July 10th to 13th, our theme is Under the Sea. All of our artwork will be ocean themed. This class will include some sculpting with baking soda clay. 

All camps are for kids aged 8 to 12 years old and classes will be limited to 10 students per session. The cost per session is $125, which includes supply fees. All you need to bring is your imagination and a snack!

All the camps will be held at Mrs. Shock's house and camp will be from 9am to Noon.  If you are interested in signing up... 

Science and Art, Two of my Favorite Things

Creative Hobbies Equal Big Rewards

Calling All Dry Markers!

Crayola has a great program for recycling those old dry markers that end up in the trash! It's called ColorCycle.

Last year we shipped off a pretty big box of dry markers, and this year I hope to send an even bigger box! If you have any dry markers laying around, send them to school to recycle in the art room. They don't even have to be crayola markers, any marker will do!

ATC Swap was a Success!

In November we mailed all of our Artist Trading Cards in to Mrs. Nic Hahn in Minnesota. She then worked tirelessly to organize and distribute the trading cards back to the schools that participated. We received some really great cards from other states and countries!

I created a google map with pictures of the cards we received from each school. If you'd like to see what we got, you can see them all by clicking on the globe below!

Now the hard part is distributing the trading cards to the England students. There are quite a few that everyone is going to want :)

Art Club and Artist Trading Cards

Fall Art Club has begun and we are starting off by creating Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). ATCs are miniature pieces of art that you can trade with other artists. When I say miniature, the actual size is 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. They can be any medium of art and anything you want them to be!

In November we will be mailing our ATCs to an ATC swap coordinator in Minnesota. She has over 100 different schools participating from around the world. We will trade our cards in for cards from those students! The Art Club kids are super excited!

Here are a few great ATCs created yesterday. We are still working on how to use a ruler and make sure we are measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches. :)

I told the artists that they can create these at home too! All you need is some thick paper (80# or more) and your imagination... and a ruler too! I want to mail off at least 100, which means if every student can make at least 5 cards for trading, we should meet that goal!

How Can We Save the Planet? With Creativity!

Artist Cath Love, "I'm not a scientist, I can't tell you if this would leave a dent in the state of our environment. But this concept -- to make use of what we already have in the air, instead of extracting it from new materials -- really is a positive approach to creating sustainable art."

How to Look at Public Art

I love this video! It does a great job explaining how to look at art. You could ask some of these same questions about art in a museum as well.

 

2015-1016 Spotlight Night

We had a very successful Spotlight Night at England Elementary. The school was covered from head to toe in awesome student artwork! It may take a lot of work, but it is always totally worth it!