Art Club Goes to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Early Saturday morning we loaded up twenty-six 3-5th graders onto a bus to go into Houston to the Fine Arts Museum! I grabbed two of the art room’s iPads and we had student photographers to document the whole trip!

We walked through the sculpture garden:

Joan Miro Bird 1968

Frank Stella Decanter 1987

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Smith, Two Circle Sentinel, 1961

 

 

 

 

 

Henri Matisse, Back I, 1909

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we went inside!

We saw mandalas like our CD project!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We learned about other religions:

Sarsavati, 6th century

Shastradhara, c. 1531

Amida, 1472

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw artists we’d talked about in class!

Picasso

Monet

Amphoras

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salvador Dali

And so much more!

 

 

What a great day!

 

Thank you to the parent volunteers, teacher chapareones, and a great bunch of kids that made this trip a breeze.

About Ms. Luna

Here we go! Year number four! Teaching artist at Mark Twain Elementary! I started my career in 2002, in the New York City Schools as a Special Education Middle School teacher. Moving back to my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, I continued teaching Special Education and also began teaching after school and summer art programs. Moving again to Houston, Texas. I have taught all levels and abilities from kindergarten to college and am very excited to be teaching here at Mark Twain! I am also a professional artist and designer that shows work worldwide. I have been featured in the Houston Chronicle, Austin Fashion Week, Houston Press, and at the Grassi Museum of the Applied Arts in Germany. I hold a Masters of Science in Special Education from Manhattan College and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University. I currently am teaching grades kindergarten through fifth and am an adjuct art professor at Alvin Community College.

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