Our 4th Annual School Wide Art Show is coming up! Please join us Monday, February 13, from 5:30-7:30 in the gym. Your student's artwork will be framed and hung on display but you must RSVP this year. Please return your RSVP form or email Ms. Crowell.

The art show is a wonderful opportunity to showcase all of the hard work that our students have been doing. It is a wonderful sight to see such a large art show featuring the work of our school full of wonderful artists. The art frames are for sale for $35 and the Greenbrier art program receives 25% of the sales. We use this percentage of the sales to buy our art supplies yearly. Please help us support and maintain the great art program we have at our school!

If you would like to buy your child's framed artwork in advance or you can't make it, please contact Artworks, Inc. (864) 373-9398 or email Debi McCoy at debi@artworksincfair.com. Feel free to contact Art Teacher Mollye Crowell with any other questions: mcrowell@greenville.k12.sc.us.

 

Greenbrier's Online Art Gallery

Greenbrier art students have an online art gallery that is constantly growing. Please visit Artsonia.com to see you student's work online. If nothing has been posted for your student, please check back soon! Our gallery as well as our artwork is a constant work in progress. This is a great site where you can share your student's artwork with famliy or friends across the country or world. Artsonia also offers you the opportunity to purchase copies of the artwork or in gift form. Greenbrier's art program gets a percentage back from any items sold through the website. You can join your student's fan club and post comments about their work. If you would rather not have your student's work visible please let Ms. Crowell know.

 

Greenbrier's Art Program

Mollye Crowell is our lead art teacher, Ronda Reynolds Smith is here Mondays, and Denise Ferrara is here on Tuesdays. Please visit Ms. Crowell's website for more information about our art curriculum and art classrooms. Want more art at home? Click here to visit Ms. Crowell's list of suggested websites for art games, art museums, and other art activities. Please feel free to contact Ms. Crowell at 355-5330 if you have any questions!

Upcoming Art Events!

Be sure to check out these art events and exhibits coming up!!!

First Fridays Open Studios: happening year round, the first friday of every month!
Artisphere: May 11-13, 2012 in downtown Greenville-
weeknd long festival representing artists form around the world!
Art in the Park: September 22-23,2012
Trillium Arts Festival: October 1-2, 2012
Greenville Open Studios: November 2012 presented by Metropolitan Arts Council

 

All Arts Night

Greenbrier held our very first All Arts Night! We had different stations that focused on all of the arts here at school: Music, PE, and Art. These are a few highlights from All Arts Night in the art room:

 

 

TTTBC (Take Time to Be Creative!)

10 Ways to Nurture Creativity by Peter H. Reynolds

1) Model it.

Demonstrate and share YOUR creativity and art.

2) Be Proud.

Do not denigrate your own art and creativity in front of children. Share it proudly.

3) Stock up.

Have plenty of arts supplies and media tools at your children’s fingertips.

4) Get Inspired.

Take your children to museums!

5) Share, share, share!

Make dinnertime – story-time. Have everyone tell a story about his or her day. Make storytelling a part of your family culture.

6) Celebrate originality.

Get as much original art up on the walls as possible. (Yours, your children’s, friends’)

7) Create your creative oasis.

Turn of the TV and play music on great speakers. Forget the earbuds. SHARE the sounds! Mix it up – play all types of music from all periods and all cultures.

8 ) Infuse the arts in unexpected places.

Make your dinner plates look like art. Arrange it in creative ways.

9)  Set up your studio.

Create “studio spaces” in your home/school dedicated to making stuff.

10) Make it matter!

Brainstorm how you can use your talents and gifts to make the world a better place.

 

Courtesy of: imaginationsoup.net