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Michener Art Class Portfolio
Age 10, Mixed Media Cubist Still Life Collage, Walt Disney
Elementary School Arts Enrichment Program, 2005
Wallpaper, musical scores and fabric combine to create a wonderful cubist
still life created during an Arts Enrichment Class at the Walt Disney
Elementary School in Lower Bucks County. |
Isabelle Phillips, Age 7, Watercolor, Tissue and Acrylic Portrait,
Drawing and Painting Workshop, 2004
Portraiture and figure drawing
are important skills to learn in the Michener Museum's art classes for
elementary students. |
Age 15, Charcoal and Acrylic Landscape, Rivers, Rills and Sunlight,
2005
Interpretation of a sunset inspired by the New Hope School of
Pennsylvania Impressionists created in charcoal, acrylic and
watercolor. |
Age 11, Watercolor, Pastel and Collage Dream Painting, Arts of Asia
Summer Camp, 2005
Illusion and mystery are themes in this mixed media
image created during the Arts of Asia Summer Camp in 2005. |
Austin Sturgeon, Age 8, Rokkaku Fighting Kite, Wood, String, Paper
and Paint, Arts of Asia Kite Workshop, 2005
Students learned about
Asian arts, culture and history while constructing kites during the
Michener's Arts of Asia program in 2005. |
Katie Leininger, Age 7, Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, Arts
of Asia Summer Camp, 2005
Students learned Chinese calligraphy and
Japanese sumi-e ink painting while creating Asian flowers during a 2005
summer camp experience at the Museum. |
Casey Garr, age 10, Charcoal Mudra Hand Position, Drawing on Art,
2006
This large-scale charcoal drawing was created by a ten year old
student as part of the Museum's Saturday morning drawing
classes. |
Samuel T., Age 10, Mixed Media Cubist Still Life Collage, Walt
Disney Elementary School Arts Enrichment Program, 2005
Students learn
about art from many different periods of history while taking classes at
the Michener Museum. This work was inspired by 20th Century Cubist artists
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. |
Amanda Malloy, Age 7, Glue, Pastel and Watercolor Portrait,
Quakertown Community School District Children's Gallery Exhibition,
2006
Combining art materials in unusual ways leads to interesting
results, as can be seen in this delightful portrait. Michener museum
programs provide students with many new opportunities to explore their
creative side. |
Eric Martin, Age 7, Glue, Pastel and Watercolor Portrait,
Quakertown Community School District Children's Gallery Exhibition,
2006
Texture and color work well together in this portrait created
for a Children's Gallery Exhibition. |
Age 16, Charcoal Landscape on Paper, Rivers, Rills and Sunlight,
2005
Middle and high school students have the opportunity to work
en plein air along the canal at the Phillips' Mill Studio in New
Hope as part of the Michener Museum's Rivers, Rills and Sunlight Summer
Camp program. |
Sophia Videva, age 6, Collage Flower Abstraction, Pine Run
Elementary School Arts Enrichment Program, 2005
Colors and forms leap
off the paper in this festive collage created as part of an exploration of
paper sculpture.
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Ketie Leninger, Age 7, Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, Arts
of Asia Summer Camp, 2005 |
Arielle Reed, Age 8, and Ellen Eberhardt, age 7, Mixed Media
Collage, Looking into Landscape, 2004
Storytelling can inspire
amazing images. Here, a mixed media piece created by two elementary
students during a storytelling workshop.
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Watercolor and Crayon Townscape, Quakertown Community School
District Children's Gallery Exhibition, 2006 |
Janae Ridley, Age 9, Pastel Still Life, Art Action at Milford
Square, 2004
Students living in the Milford Square Transitional
Housing Shelter in Upper Bucks County develop a variety of artistic skills
during their weekly after school art program sponsored by the Michener Museum.
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Age 16, Acrylic on Paper, Rivers, Rills and Sunlight, 2005
One
of the goals of all Michener Museum art classes is to combine new
knowledge of art skills, techniques and vocabulary with the ability to be
expressive and original. This acrylic painting was created by a high
school student in preparation for a college portfolio during the Rivers,
Rills and Sunlight summer program.
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Riley Kilgariff, Age 9, Crayon and Watercolor Portrait on Paper,
Pine Run Elementary School Arts Enrichment Program, 2005
Allyson Sheehan, Age 11, Rokkaku Fighting Kite, Wood, Paper, String
and Paint, Arts of Asia Kite Workshop, 2005 |
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