Here we are some of the Artist Trading Cards created by Italian students that now are everywhere around the world. This year the Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2018, organized as usual by our amazing friend and art teacher Nic Hahn, has involved many Italian schools from Primary to Secondary and High schools. Here below you can find the name of teachers and their students' cards. ANDREA GRECO … [Read more...]
Artists Trading Cards 2017 from the world
September 2, 2017 by 2 Comments
Here we are the Artists Trading Cards we received in March 2017 from the global swap. My students were so excited to discover where them were from, which were the schools and the students who create them. They decided to choose two or three cards each and to keep them as a beautiful reminder of their experience in creating and swapping the cards. Does somebody from the world recognize their own … [Read more...]
Final Exams 2017
June 26, 2017 by 2 Comments
Paintings, stained glass, prints, drawings, mosaic, collage, plastic and wood sculptures, mixed media projects... This year for the final exams students of the 8th Grade created different kind of work. Everyone described and justified the work, explaining the techniques and the procedure and the motivations of their work of art. Here we have the works presented during the final exams: … [Read more...]
Competition: a new logo for our School
June 22, 2017 by 2 Comments
This year all the classes of the Middle School of Mezzolombardo participated in a competition to design the logo of the new School. The project aimed to create a new logo with specific features. The logo had to have these requirements: Being READABLE and easily UNDERSTANDABLE (few colors, simple shapes, clear written) Being evocative of TERRITORIAL CONTEXT (rural, mountain and lake) … [Read more...]
Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2016 from Italy
December 7, 2016 by 2 Comments
With great pleasure I publish here the Artist Trading Cards, created by ten Italian Schools which took part with me in the project Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2016. Our cards have already arrived to Minnesota, where Nic Hahn and her staff are dividing them, in order to ship them in other 100 Schools around the world. We are looking forward to receive the new cards from the Schools that took … [Read more...]
Meeting with the artist: Albino Rossi
November 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Having a meeting with an artist is always a special experience: we are used to appreciating the works of art, but a meeting with an artist makes us able to read his creations in a different way, with more affection and depth. This October we visited a beautiful exhibition at the Casa dei Gentili di Sanzeno (Trento) . The exhibit showed the whole artistic activity of ALBINO ROSSI, an Italian artist … [Read more...]
Drawings, Music, Emotions: collaborative project
November 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Matching drawings, music, and emotions is a fascinating experience, which helps to express yourself and your own feeling. Is not possible to fail or to make mistakes, and the experience has always a liberating effect. With Grade 8th students we experienced how the music can create emotions that we can turn out in drawings. We worked in groups of four on a large drawing sheet, sharing the same … [Read more...]
Final exam 2016
June 28, 2016 by 8 Comments
Even this year I asked my students to create a personal work, inspired by the artists we've studied in our lessons. In the final exam is important to describe and justify the work, explaining the techniques and the procedure and the motivations of their work of art. Here we have the works presented during the final exams: they was connected to a history of art topic, and every student explained … [Read more...]
Artist Trading Cards Global Swap 2015
May 13, 2016 by 8 Comments
At beginning of the School year we took part ito an Artist Trading cards Global Swap. The idea came from an outstanding American teacher, Nic Hahn (here her website MiniMatisse), with whom I share technical ideas and lessons from a few years. Artist Trading Cards are small works of art, the size of a playing card, (2.5 x 3.5 inches, or 6.35 x 8.89 cm) that artists from around the world exchange … [Read more...]
Also this year is Arteascuola the Best Art Blog 2015!
January 25, 2016 by 8 Comments
Also this year in Arte a Scuola.com confirms the success in the contest for the best website of Art Class of 2015! Arteascuola.com is officially the winner in the category of the best art sites for middle and high schools in 2015. I am very surprised and honored with this second consecutive victory and I want to thank all those who gave their vote, who follow me and support me every day: … [Read more...]
