Welcome to Art Class - A New School Year

Welcome to the the Smithland art studio! The art room is a space where your child will be creative, problem-solve, learn about art media, artists and apply various techniques to their own artwork throughout the year.  Projects throughout the year are based around themes, cultures and the elements of art.  We follow the Virginia Standards of Learning for Visual Arts and these are apparent within each lesson.  I look forward to working with your child again this year! If you are new this year to Smithland I can't wait to meet you and your child!  If you have any questions about our art program please feel free to contact me.  sritter@harrisonburg.k12.va.us

 

   
 

Summer Is Upon Us

It has been a great year of art making in the Smithland Art Studio!  I hope everyone has a great summer and the 2015-2016 school year will be here before we know it!

Here are few 2nd grade self-portraits from this year :)

The Smithland Elementary Art Show

We had a great turn out for our K-4th grade art show to celebrate Youth Art Month!  Every child had one piece of artwork displayed from art class this year.  A collaborative circle painting was also on display that was made by several grade levels during March.  Thank you also to our PTO who provided a collaborative artwork for students during the art show and refreshments.

Happy Youth Art Month!

Our HCPS district Art Show is on display through the month of March at the Massanutten Regional Library.  Come check out the great art! 
Get ready for the Smithland Art Show next.....MARCH 19TH- 5:30-7:30 at Smithland Elementary.

2nd Grade Artwork-Creating from Observation

2nd Graders have been learning how to draw and paint from observation over the last couple of months.  They have created stunning flower artworks while also learning about the artist Georgia O'Keefe.  They are currently creating still life paintings using the observational strategies they learned from previous drawings.  Next up will be post instruction self-portraits.

3rd and 4th Grade Art Projects

This quarter students in 4th grade completed their "favorite place" tunnel books.  Students learned about depth, space and creating details.  They turned out great and I love how unique they all are from one another.  3rd graders learned about the artist Paul Cezanne and the technique of collage with our student teacher, Miss Bykowski.  They did a remarkable job creating textured paper with paint and used the paper to create landscape collages.

3rd Grade Painted Paper Landscape Collages

Smithland Snow Plow Art

Thanks to these 6 Smithland artists, our snowplow is complete and will be in the Holiday Parade this December and on the streets when it snows!