Visual Arts

It’s Square 1 Art time!

It’s Square 1 Art time!

Hi! Exciting news!  It’s Square 1 Art time.  The order packets have arrived at ACS.  I passed them out to parents who signed up for an art conference last week.  Check your child’s backpack November 4th and 5th if I didn’t see you at conferences for their Square 1 Art packet.  This is an awesome opportunity to support your child and ACS by purchasing your child’s artwork through Square 1 Art.  Square 1 Art gives back 30% of the retail sales price of each product […]

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Visiting Artist

Visiting Artist

Yesterday students who had art class got to work with Geshe Lobsong Tsultrim.  He is a Tibetan monk and also a master artist.  Students learned various art forms including calligraphy, animal drawing, landscape drawing, flower drawing and sand painting.  A special thank you goes out to Aspen Tibet for providing us with this enriching opportunity to learn about the art of other cultures here at ACS.

Time for Creativity

Time for Creativity

Why do we practice creativity at ACS?  It is an important life skill that helps us in the arts as well as in all sorts of other disciplines.  Without practice we get rusty.  Children, teens and adults all benefit from using this part of our brain and what a better place to practice it than in visual arts class.  YEA CREATIVITY! This concept “Time for Creativity” is one of our classroom rules in the art […]

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