Here is a peek into some Lower and Middle School art installations around campus. Also, don’t forget to mark your calendar and plan to visit the Howe Library in Hanover, NH to view Crossroads Academy K–8 student artwork being displayed during the months of March and April in the children and teen section of the library. Please call ahead to confirm which grade-level is up when you visit. This year the art is being split among March and April.
And please check out more student artwork online at Story Preservation Initiative.
Over The Moon Pop Up Art Gallery
Kindergarten
100 DAY DOT HEARTS: Kindergarten students created these colorful heart artworks to celebrate one hundred days in school! While creating they were tasked to count the dots and see if they used 100 (or more)!
LOVE MONSTER: After reading this fabulous story by award-winning British author and illustrator Rachel Bright. Students took inspiration and collaged their own love monster!
ALEXANDER CALDER INSPIRED STAMOBILES: Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static “stabiles”, and his monumental public sculptures. Kindergarten students created their own rendition using wire, shapes, and his classic primary colors for their creations!
First Grade
WARM & COOL HEARTS: After learning about living artist Jim Dine, students celebrated the symbol of the heart by creating these warm and cool oil pastel watercolor resist artworks.
SNOW GLOBES: The first graders returned to 3D as winter approached. After we read the book Snow Globe Family by Jane O’Connor, they created a paper snow globe with views of a snow figure and drew on the light from the moon to create shadows and highlights.
Second Grade
THE GOLDFISH, HENRI MATISSE INSPIRED COLLAGES: The second graders engaged with the work of Henri Matisse, including The Snail (also known as Chromatic Composition) and Goldfish. After we read the book Henri’s Scissors, which was inspired by Matisse’s Goldfish painting, they created their own versions of the famous artwork through a variety of techniques, including painted and sponge-painted paper and watercolor salt resist. Each student also created a mixed-media collage using a balanced compositional design.
Third Grade
STAINED GLASS WINTER LANDSCAPES: Third grade students created mixed-media winter landscapes. First creating “stained glass” trees, painting a background and adding the trees using foreground, middle ground, and background.
Fourth Grade
ISLAMIC STAINED GLASS WINDOWS: Fourth grade students looked at a variety of Islamic art and architecture. They each focused on a geometric design capturing the colorful stained glass windows found in many mosques.
Fifth Grade
M.C. ESCHER TESSELLATIONS: Fifth grade students created tessellation designs using combined geometric and organic shapes with no overlaps and no gaps inspired by mathematical artist M.C. Escher. Once their tessellation was constructed they had to creatively turn the shape into something unique!
MOUNTAIN TERRAINS BY JEN ARYANI: Fifth grade students created these beautiful mountain terrains inspired by artist Jen Aranyi. Nature-loving artist/designer creating vibrant and colorful watercolor art.
YARN WIRE HEARTS: To celebrate the season fifth grade students explored the tactile quality of using a variety of yarns and wie to create a fun textural display.
Sixth Grade
FALLING NAME: Imagine if you took a big bucket filled with the letters that make up your name and dumped it out into a pile on the floor. Well, these art projects may be what it would look like. Students were tasked to use block or bubble letters to create a pile of letters composing their name. The letters should touch to create closed spaces between them where students included a variety of lines and patterns. A color palette was selected and a background was chosen to compliment the composition and add contrast to the typography design.
MONOCHROMATIC LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS: Sixth grade students learned how to create a value scale or gradient and applied this technique to a landscape painting demonstrating atmospheric perspective.
Seventh Grade
CHUCK CLOSE INSPIRED SELF-PORTRAITS: After learning about artist Chuck Close who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others, students were tasked to recreate a self-portrait in the Close style. Drawing from a grid technique students created these eye popping renditions.
Eighth Grade
POP ART SELF-PORTRAITS: Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silk-screening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych. Students created inspired self-portraits using a “reverse glass” technique. Selecting an analogous color set for their facial features and an opposite warm or cool textured painted background to contrast and highlight their face.
