Ms. Beaulieu's Art Adventures

This summer, I was able to do some art making and playing of my own! I wanted to share what I have been up to this summer!

Swimming in the Lake. Lots and lots of swimming!

Visiting the Fine Arts Museum's Nubian Exhibition in Boston!

Learning how to do copper etching at Oxbow Arts Camp!

A series of my copper-etched prints!

More printing at Oxbow!

I learned all about acid!

At the Constructing Modern Knowledge Institute learning how to make simple circuits with makey-makey and sticker LEDs. 

Was THRILLED to see a Shantell Martin in person at MIT!

Our final project at CMK was an interactive music and visual conceptual art installation. It was pretty amazing!

At an UIC Afrofurturistic Arts Show here in Chicago

On Beaver Island with my family!

Another print from Oxbow!

My son, who has been doing a lot of art this summer but mostly on himself!

At the Gordon Parks Show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Happy August!

Hi Everyone! I hope each and everyone of you is having a fantastic summer! Now that I am done traveling, I was hoping to get together for a museum morning! I will send out an email, but we will be meeting next week,  Wednesday August 12th at 10:30-12:30. The survey for the sign up  is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FBRDMFM and ticket information for the Art Institute of Chicago is here: https://sales.artic.edu/admissions

Missing all of you!

Milena and Sarina at the Hyde Park Art Fair!!!

Milena and Sarina (fourth graders) sold their beautiful art at the Hyde Park Art Fair this weekend. I am so glad I got to see some of it before it all sold!!!

Meet up with Bret Harte!!

Last Friday, we were able to have a nice lunch, some play-time, and even a little art making with the students from Bret Harte Elementary School! Here are some pictures!

Third Grade activites

Third Graders have been busy printing and learning about color! Here are some pictures from the past couple of weeks!

fourth grade adventures this week

The fourth graders had some amazing adventures this week! Mr. Kerney's class toured the Robie House on Wednesday. It was really interesting to see one of the oldest houses in Hyde Park. Ms. Cortez' class walked around the Robie House and then walked to a grassy area across the street to sketch buildings. We also walked over to the Renaissance Society to see the AMAZING Gabriel Sierra show. If you haven't seen it, please do! It is fun, beautiful, and bizarre! It is up until June 28th.

Performance Art!

Last Friday, May 15th, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Performance Artist, Parvin Peyvandi. She comes from Iran/Vancouver and transformed our classroom for most of the day. Parvin wore a Persian Rug and invited students to sit on it around her. She led us through a meditation and then we all had a discussion about how this experience made us feel. It was completely wonderful and students really were impacted by the nature of the class. Thank you to Parvin for spreading her love for people, art, and all things beautiful to us!