We have been very busy working in schools across Toronto. This fall we spent time at Humbercrest, Lambton Kingsway, St. Pius X, St. Cecilia, John English, Oriole Park, Kingsway College, Fern, Blessed Sacrament and Rosethorn.
Students created many projects, including a dragon fly that was inspired by our Travel Back in Time session. They learned that dragon flies have been around for 300 million years and that there are fossil records showing they were once the size of crows!
We honoured Canadian veterans with our Remembrance Day project and students learned about Jacqueline Hurley a British artist who specializes in art with poppies and a remembrance theme.
We spent an amazing week at Oriole Park Junior Public School doing art workshops in each class. Here is an example of a Koi project we created:
We had a lot of fun using liquid watercolours and oil pastels to create the beautiful fish. The students did an outstanding job!
Mrs. Fritzlar is leading a class through a project inspired by the Lascaux Caves that were discovered in France in 1940 but the beautiful cave paintings date back over 17000 years ago. The history of the caves and the beautiful images that are contained within are absolutely fascinating. To learn more…
The holidays are now filling our classrooms and this week we are inspired by the iconic American artist, Norman Rockwell. Students learn about his lengthy and prolific career, he created more than 4000 paintings and illustrations that truly captured the time he lived through. We created our own holiday tree in a forest:
Art in Action is available to do art workshops and extra curricular programs at your school, contact us at artinactiontoronto@gmail.com to learn more.