Krewes!

Krewes are organizations or groups that put on parades during Carnival season. In the spirit of Mardi Gras we divided our fabulous group into three krewes. Each krewe had to come up with a name, a mascot, and pick three colors that represented their krewe. Our krewes are: The Phoenixes, The Cardinals, and The Sparkies.

Check out the Cardinals drawing their mascot:

Fundreds!

Today we did two great community projects with our Moya ArtSpace students. The first was Mel Chin's Fundred project. Mr. Matthew gave a presentation on how Mel Chin found out about the pre-existing led problem in soil of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Then all students got their own Fundred to color and draw on to help raise money to remove the led from the dirt. You can make a Fundred to! Just visit the website and print out a template. But hurry, the Fundred truck is coming to collect all of Arizona's Fundreds on 25 February 2010 at the ASU Art Museum.


Students also did small drawings for the Tempe 4"x4" Express yourself in this space art show. Just think, 9 years old and already getting work in a gallery!

Picture Parade!

After a super fun round of The Big Wind Blows we took a trip down the hallway to hang up our AWESOME parade pics for the whole school to see!


Everyone had a chance to describe their picture and we all agreed that our picture parade ROCKED!

Let's have a Parade!

Today everyone was very energetic, but mostly because we were using glitter!

And yarn, and construction paper, and glue to make our parade floats a little more colorful and multimedia than the marker drawings done on Monday.

We began class again today by playing Miss Becky's favorite game: ships and sailors. Take a look at Titanic and 3 people rowing.






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Ships and Sailors!!!!

Today we learned Ms. Becky's all time favorite game, Ships and Sailors! It's basically a way cooler version of Simon Says. In order to successfully play you have to be a super good listener and memorize a handful of directions and gestures.

Here they are in "Captain's Coming!" pose:



Everybody "Hit the Deck!"

Back at it.

Our first day back at Moya was was a blast! We had a lot of new faces and even a new teacher! That's right, Mr. Ben graduated so now we have the fabulous dancer Miss Becky. With all the newness flying around the room we thought new nametags were in order.

Story Boards with Crayons!

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day… A cold, wet and gloomy day at Artspace couldn’t dampen our enthusiasm: there were more stories to be told, illustrated, and captured on video. Class began with a cut-and-paste session. Remember those painted stories from two classes ago? Tales such as the “Yellow-muscled Alien” and the “Girl Who Made Friends with A Giant” were originally painted as part of a large canvas combining many individual stories. Today students tore into those large canvases with scissors, retrieving bits and pieces of their own stories so they could reconstruct and illustrate them later on.

Second, the students continued illustrating their group-project storyboards. While many of the stories were nearing completion, many of the illustrations still contained a lot of empty white space. When there’s empty space on the paper, the best solution is a box of crayons. Out came the crayons and soon there were broad arrays of blue, orange, green, red, yellow and purple filling the gaps.

While everybody continued drawing, Mr. Ben and Mr. Matt interviewed one group at a time on camera. Students got the chance to film their storytelling efforts by talking, answering questions and pointing out how their artwork was worth a thousand words.

During all of the ArtSpace sessions to date, Mr. Ben and Mr. Matt have been filming students working, playing, creating and telling stories. In the next few days they will be piecing together all of those video clips and setting them to music in order to recount the course of Moya ArtSpace this fall. The result of this video editing effort will be on display at the Moya holiday concert, December 16 @ 6pm.

ArtSpace Moya Fall09 Storyboards from Matthew Mosher on Vimeo.