Course Syllabus

 

WELCOME TO ART AT BLACKMON ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL

I am so glad to have the opportunity to teach your child art this year. Stay tuned as assignments and news about art events will be posted here. I'm looking forward to a wonderful year of learning and fun with the students!

Thank you,
Frenasee Rathel Daughety daughety.frenasee.r@muscogee.k12.ga.us
Room 116 - front hall, left

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WEEK 14 AND 15                            

6TH GRADE, Architecture of Other Lands 

 

7TH AND 8TH GRADES - Georgia Studies

To reinforce Social Studies Historical places in Georgia

RED TEXT BOOK - PAGES ON THE BOARD 

DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY !!!!! 

:Big Art Show this Friday' November 3 - Our ARMY VISITORS'WILL JUDGE OUR WORK THIS WEEK

 

OCTOBER 16 - 20 continuing "YOUR SELFIE" 

Practice basic face drawing REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR SELFIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRMCgtcchw

Watch and practice the face drawing video again to get better, " PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT"  

REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR SELFIE  October 9 - 13 

WEEK 10  Laurel Birch selfies - Fun abstract images of yourself or your pet.  

 

WEEK 9   "ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE"  Elements and Principles of Art using Depth and Space in the study of Claude Monet ----- His gardens and paintings as the learners create a work of art in his style using chalk pastels  

 

ALL CLASSES and grade levels participated in MSCD "Word of the Month" art competition WEEK 8 working in conjunction with the Language Arts classes.  Art and Essays were submitted and judged September 29 by the ARMY PARTERNERS IN EDUCATION.. Winners to be announced Monday October 2, 2017 

STEEPLE CHASE AND GA NATIONAL FAIR WORKS SUBMITTED weeks 6 and 7 

WEEK 5 - ASSIGNMENTS DUE - FRIDAY Sept 8 - no extensions - Only Sick or Doctor excuse to exempt 

ALL CLASSES: Pencil Value scales. Pen or marker value scales - Flash Graph handout from last week. 

PROJECTS -

7-8 ALMA THOMAS PERIODS 4, 5, 3 Assignments, quiz FRIDAY

6-7 GRADES PERIODS 1, 2, 6, Cool and Warm seascapes 

 

WELCOME TO ART AT BLACKMON ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL

I am so glad to have the opportunity to teach your child art this year. Stay tuned as assignments, grades and news about art events are being posted very soon. I'm looking forward to a wonderful year of learning and fun with the students. 

THANK YOU, Frenasee Rathel Daughety,  daughety.frenasee.r@muscogee.k12.ga.us

Room 116 - front hall, left

WEEK FIVE - 

FIRST THREE WEEKS ASSIGNMENTS - FIRST, SECOND, AND SIXTH PERIOD

WARM UPS - Winnie the Pooh Graph, Eagle Graph, Eagle Cartoon, Turtle Graph - PROJECT - Draw Monet's Bridge, facts about Monet with visiting Art Teacher ARTIST, Susan Hudnall who shared pictures and stories about her trip to France where she visited Monet's house and gardens. 

FIRST THREE WEEKS ASSIGNMENT - FOURTH AND FIFTH PERIODS 

WARM UPS - Winnie the Pooh Graph, Eagle Graph, Eagle Cartoon, Turtle Graph, Spider Man Graph  - PROJECT - Draw Monet's Bridge, facts about Monet with visiting Art Teacher ARTIST, Susan Hudnall who shared pictures and stories about her trip to France where she visited Monet's house and gardens. 

WEEKS THREE AND FOUR FIRST, SECOND, AND SIXTH PERIOD

WARM UPS - Value Scales, Flash, Finish Previous Warm-ups

PROJECT - "Hands Together", (emphasizing UNITY and RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER)  Alma Thomas Eclipse - Groups selected from each class to work on large posters in the style of Alma Thomas for the BRMS HALLS - Seascapes in warm and cool colors 

WEEKS THREE AND FOUR FIRST, 4th and 5th PERIODS

WARM UPS - Value Scales, Flash, Finish Previous Warm-ups

PROJECT - "Hands Together" TEACHER DEMO -(emphasizing UNITY and RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER)

PROJECT - Alma Thomas Eclipse -Groups selected from each class to work on large posters in the style of Alma Thomas for the BRMS HALLS 

PROJECT - TEACHER DEMO -Continue the study of the life of Artist/Art teacher, Alma Thomas (biography provided) 

1. Draw a Realistic Apple  (chalk pastels, 9x12 colored paper, of your choice)  2. Do report on Alma Thomas 15 facts in full sentences  3. Draw an Abstract Apple in the style of Alma Thomas (oil pastels, 9x12 colored paper of your choice)

 

 

BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST

ALMA WOOLSEY THOMAS

Alma Thomas was a painter who viewed nature as a colorful, abstract mosaic. Through her eyes, leaves fluttering outside her window became a swirling dance of autumn hues, an eclipse would be a kaleidoscope of luminous tones, and a flower garden exploded into brilliant fireworks. “Color is life,”Thomas was quoted as saying in Women Artists in Washington Collections. “Light reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world through colors.” As an artist who began her “serious painting” at the age of 70 and had her first major exhibition at age 80, Thomas’s work reflected a lifetime in art. Though she was an art teacher for 35 years, Thomas also studied and assimilated the styles of artists she admired, merging them with her own profoundly independent vision.Alma Woodsey Thomas was born September 22, 1891, in Columbus, Georgia. The oldest of four daughters, Thomas lived with her family in a Victorian house surrounded by trees and flowerbeds. Perched above the town, Thomas would catch her first glimpses of the vibrant color contrasts and juxtapositions vital to her later work. Thomas’s childhood was also instilled with the importance of education. Although her hometown prohibited black people in public libraries, Thomas’s aunts were schoolteachers who often brought professors and traveling lecturers to the Thomas home, including Booker T. Washington.

With the desire for a better education for his daughters and concern over the 1906 race riots in nearby Atlanta, John Thomas moved his family to Washington, DC, in 1907. Thomas often recounted the story of her family about to cross the Potomac River: her parents suggested that Thomas and her sisters remove their shoes to knock off every last bit of the Georgia sand so they could begin their new life. In Washington the Thomas’s bought a small brick house on a tree-lined avenue where the artist and her youngest sister, John Maurice--named for their father--would live most of their lives. Soon after, the family encircled their house, like the one in Columbus, with trees and gardens.

Shortly after the move to Washington, Thomas attended Armstrong Technical High School where she excelled in math and science as well as demonstrating a strong talent in architecture. She designed a modern school-house that the Smithsonian Institution exhibited in 1912 when Thomas was just 20 years old. Although she considered becoming an architect, art captured her imagination more thoroughly. By the time she graduated, she had taken every class the school offered on the subject. “When I entered the art room,” she told Eleanor Munro, author of Originals: American Women Artists, “it was like entering heaven.” Becoming an artist, though, seemed like an unattainable aspiration. “When I was a little girl in Columbus,” she told David L. Shirey of the New York Times, “one of the things we couldn’ t

At a Glance …

Born Alma Woodsey Thomas, September 22, 1891, in Columbus, GA; died February 24, 1978, in Washington, DC, after undergoing surgery; daughter of John Harris (a businessman and church worker) and Amelia Cantey Thomas (homemaker and seamstress). Education : Miners Teachers Normal School, teachers certificate, 1913; Howard University, B.S. in fine arts, 1924; Columbia University Teachers College, M.A. in art education, 1934; painting classes at American University, 1950-1960.

Painter, educator. Took courses in art, architecture, and mechanical drawing at Armstrong Technical High School, 1907-1911; taught kindergarten age children at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington, Delaware, 1915-1921; became Howard University’s first fine arts student, 1921, and first fine arts graduate, 1924; began teaching fine arts at Shaw Junior High School in Washington, DC, 1925; attended Teachers College at Columbia University in New York, summers 1930-1933; studied marionettes with Tony Sarg, 1935; initiated School Arts League Project in Washington, DC, 1936; helped found and was first vice president of Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, DC, 1943; joined the “Little Paris” group of artists, 1946; studied painting at American University, 1950-1960; retired from teaching, 1960; “Alma W. Thomas, A Retrospective Exhibition” held at Howard University, 1966; first woman to have solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, 1972; “Alma W. Thomas Retrospective Exhibition” held at Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 1972; Mayor Walter Washington declared September 9, 1972, “Alma Thomas Day” in Washington, DC; invited to the White House by President Jimmy Carter, 1977.

Awards : Honor Roll of Distinguished Women from National Association of Colored Women’s clubs, 1962; Two Thousand Women of Achievement award, 1972; International Women’s Year award for outstanding contributions to women and art.

Do was go into museums let alone think of hanging one of our pictures there.”

Thomas decided to pursue a career in teaching. She began studying kindergarten teaching at Miner Teachers Normal School. After graduating, she moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught arts and crafts for six years at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House. While there, she experienced the joy of teaching and encouraging creativity in young people. Personally, she continued with such creative endeavors as staging carnivals, circuses, and puppet shows. She allowed her students to paint the sets and to design and make all the costumes. To that end, Thomas began attending Howard University in Washington, DC, in 1921 to study costume design. She also moved back into the family home where she would live until her death.

First at Howard University

During her first year at Howard, Thomas met Professor James Herring who was struggling to create a fine arts department at the school. Herring persuaded Thomas to abandon the idea of costume design and to enroll as the first student in his new curriculum. Herring would be a lifelong friend and mentor to Thomas offering support and encouragement as well as bridging her innate creative talents with historical artistic perspective. He gave her access to his private art library which Thomas combed voraciously, thus initiating a study of formal art history and disciplines.

Initially drawn to sculpture, Thomas first painted rudimentary still-life pieces that served as a springboard for later, more adventurous works. While not disappointing to Thomas and her mentor, these early paintings did not meet the high artistic standards the two shared. Thomas was the first graduate of Herring’s art department at Howard, however, and the department’s only graduate of 1924.

With her bachelors degree in fine arts, Thomas became an art teacher at Shaw Junior High School in Washington. Though Professor Herring encouraged her to paint full time, Thomas found the rewards of teaching too great to ignore. She painted part time, however, and teaching allowed her to learn more about communication through art. “I devoted my life to the children,” she told Munro. “And I think they loved me, at least those did who cared about art.” Again, as in Delaware, Thomas used the classroom as creatively as a brush and canvas, designing and staging marionette plays with the students, offering classes in clay modeling, inviting artists and professors to lecture, and organizing clubs and activities.