Hello All!
 The Stargate Art Show Reception will be Thursday, May 3rd from 6:00-8:00 pm.  There will be over 800 pieces of artwork at the show of either 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional works. We will have a self-serve selfie station, so bring your cameras or phones to take pictures.  There will also be a food truck, so that you may purchase pizza or other goodies.  The artwork will be taken down May 10th and 11th, and will be returned to students before or after the weekend. 

We will be continuing to select work for the Stargate Permanent Art Collection.  One piece will be selected from each grade level to be framed with a plaque.  The selected pieces will permanently displayed in the school. 

Also, if you would like to sign-up to help with the reception night, set-up, or take down, the sign-up genius is below.
http://bit.ly/ArtHelp 

We hope to see you there! 
 
-Mrs. Beatty 

        Last night we had our art reception at Orchard Dental.  There was pizza, drinks, and an adorable tooth cake that Cindy Tuchklaper made(pictured below).  They had goody bags for the kids and some of the kids posed with their work. The work will be up for a month or two if you did not make it. 

A big thank you to the Tuchklaper's and the team at Orchard Dental for throwing the reception! 

​Hi Parents and Students!

We are doing things a little differently this year. I wanted to have every Stargate student involved in the art show this year, so I have been collecting 2-D artwork through-out the school year for the art show. I will collect 2-d work from my third trimester students right before the art show.
 
Right after spring break, we will be collecting 3-D artwork from any and all students.  They can submit one 3-D piece. Please place a piece of tape on their 3-D work with their first and last name and homeroom on it.  Place it on a spot that will not be visible when displayed.  We have limited space to display 3-D work, so if we get a ton of entries, we may have to cap it at a certain point.  Every student will have one or two pieces of 2-D work in the show though.
 
DETAILS:
What?  3-D ARTWORK with FIRST and LAST
name on it and HOMEROOM
How Much?  ONE PIECE
When?  Can submit it from April 2nd-April 20th
How and Where? Submit pieces by bringing them to
the elementary art room (ROOM 148) between
the hours of 8:00 AM and 3:30 PM.  When you bring the work by, you must fill out a label for your artwork.
 
The Stargate art show will be the first two weeks of May.  The reception will be on the night of May 3rd.  More details to come!
 

           Many of you know that I have had a student teacher for the last eight weeks.  Jessica Mindenhall assisted and taught her teach work sample to 3rd grade while she was here.  The 3rd graders really bonded with her and it was hard to say goodbye to her.  She will be finishing her teaching program this spring at Metropolitan State University and is currently looking for a art teacher position for the fall. The following is the project she did with the kids for her teacher work sample. 

        ​      A few months back I sent an email out to parents looking for a public space to display artwork.  
Cindy and Scott Tuckerlaper were kind enough to offer up some space at their dental clinic. 
We currently have twenty-three pieces on display in the lobby at the clinic. The artwork the
students created uses the theme of dental health.  They offered to host an art reception on Tuesday
March 20th from 5:30-7:00. There will be pizza and drinks available.  If you think you would like to 
come by, please rsvp using the link below, so that they know how much pizza they need to order.
 
http://evite.me/4jCgfw8Fyh
 
Location:
Orchard Dental Group and Orthodontics 
14422 Orchard Pkwy Ste 200 
Westminster, CO 80023 
 
The artwork will likely be up for a few months, so if you can't make it then you can maybe drop in another 
time to take a peek. 
 
Hope to see you there! 
 
-Mrs. Beatty 

                    

            This project was so much fun!!!  It has definitely become one of my favorites.  We started this lesson by learning about the artist Hundertwasser.  He was an Austrian artist, architect, and environmentalist. His artwork was very colorful and inspired by nature.  He used lots of curvy line, spirals, and organic shapes.  Some of his work is pictured below.  Hundertwasser believed that the outside of your house should tell you about something about the person living on the inside. The kids were asked to design a home inspired by Hundertwasser that would tell you something about them.  They did this using sharpie, watercolor, and crayon.  They were shown how to create a crayon resist.  We made doors to their homes with little beads for door knobs.  I then reviewed how to draw a self-portrait using a full body instead of using stick arms and stick legs.  We put their self-portraits inside their homes, so now you can open the home and see who lives there. They are currently hanging outside of the art room.