Ten of our oldest students visited James Pass Arboretum to observe and draw one of its majestic specimens. Tim Regin, longtime advocate for the arboretum, met with us sharing the history of the arboretum and its trees. Each student was assigned a different tree. In advance they had to research the tree determining if it Read More >>
Mithila Art from India
Many thanks to Shalinee Kumari for visiting the New School! Shalini is a Mithila-artist from India who was visiting SU for a residency. She came to The New School to share her amazing art form. Then she returned to help students create their own works based on the Mithila style. “Mithila is an ancient painting Read More >>
Karen Kerney, Artist
In early November, Karen Kerney, celebrated artist from Syracuse Cultural Workers, visited our school. Well known for her charming fold out depiction of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, we invited her to our school to share her stencil art process. Then children had the opportunity to create their own stencil of something they are thankful for. Read More >>
SUNY ESF Field Trip
In November a small group of our older students expressed an interest in visiting the Gateway Center at SUNY ESF to view some of the finest specimens of birds, mammals, freshwater and marine fishes, reptiles and amphibians in their Roosevelt WildLife Collection. For two hours they were granted access to a subset of this collection Read More >>
Art Studio
During my time here so far I have had the opportunity to take over some of the art studio days. Since this is such a short period during the day, I really like to use it for the youngest children to explore! We have worked with watercolor, color mixing, and clay. We just recently have Read More >>
Art Rage
Students are creating work influenced by their visit to Artrage a while back. They were exposed to the artist Helen Zughaib who created paintings based off of family stories. Each of the students wrote a family story and then I started working with them on the illustration for the assignment. We have been experimenting and Read More >>
Art Rage
At the end of October students in grades 38 visited Artrage Gallery to see a wonderful exhibit, HELEN ZUGHAIB: Stories My Father Told Me. The artist created 25 paintings that “correspond to one of her father’s stories about his childhood in Damascus and young adulthood in Lebanon. The stories about traditions of village life, morals and finally stories Read More >>