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Incorporating Art in the Library and the Library in Art. Elizabeth Jens, Art Teacher Amy Linden, Teacher Librarian Bear River H.S. – Grass Valley, CA. Traditional Art - Library Collaborations. Research projects Displays of student projects Bookmark contests Spice it up!.
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Incorporating Art in the Library and the Library in Art Elizabeth Jens, Art Teacher Amy Linden, Teacher Librarian Bear River H.S. – Grass Valley, CA
Traditional Art - Library Collaborations • Research projects • Displays of student projects • Bookmark contests • Spice it up!
Combining Words and Pictures • A few ideas • Long-term • Instant
Long Term • Biographies of artists • Eras, major art movements • Impact of events in history upon art at the time • Artworks created in response to literature, poetry, an author’s work
Dia de los Muertos Research • Work in table groups • Make a pińata • 2-page written research incorporating 5 sources • 5-minute presentation to class using 3 examples of visual evidence • Self evaluation
Short Term • Art-themed displays in library
Short Term • Art-themed displays in library • Feature books on fine art to promote circulation • Ask art students to give the library an artistic facelift • Make space to display
Short Term • Art students create the displays for books, events • Library give old magazines or books to art classes as inspiration or raw materials.
Theme: Metamorphoses • Based on the reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses • Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid
Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I sing: Ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring, Inspire my numbers with coelestial heat; 'Till I my long laborious work compleat: -Book the First, Metamorphoses Ovid
Pinch Pots • A pot that takes the shape of something OTHER than a pot
Transmorph Books • To illustrate the metamorphoses of one object into another
Scientific process • Character development • Graphic novella • How-to books • Cause and effect • Or…metamorphic art
Contact us • Elizabeth Jens ejens@njuhsd.com • Amy Linden alinden@njuhsd.com