Abintra Art - Week 24 (2012 - 2013 School Year)

The Nashville Opera brought their performance of Little Red’s Most Unusual Day, an operatic twist on the traditional Little Red Riding Hood story, to Abintra. Upper Elementary Guide Maria (pictured far right) made a cameo as a lumberjack!

ECA friends experimented with clay.  This work helps strengthen the hand muscles for writing and performing practical life activities.

ECB friends reviewed a book of children from different cultures and chose a child to create a paper doll using fabric, glue, and crayons.

ECC friends experimented with watercolor paint by painting Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting, Sunflowers.

 

ME was honored to have the Nashville sculptor, and former Abintra parent, Alan LeQuire, visit their classroom to teach them about sculpting.  He did a demonstration by starting an armature of a student’s head for another student to finish. LeQuire is best known for his colossal sculptures, Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor sculpture in the western hemisphere and Musica, one of the largest bronze figure groups in the world.

ME visited TPAC to see the performance of Baobab.  In Western Africa, under a blazing sun stands a huge and ancient Baobab tree. The Griot tells the legend of the little boy born from this tree. Making wonderful use of African-inspired puppets, costumes, and live music on stage, Théâtre Motus creates a world where one child has the power, and only the village adults can guide him to use it wisely.

UE continued their study of European Renaissance art by creating a realistic painting of an orange using oil paint.

Drawing by Cora

Oil Painting by Seraina

MS started their Calder influenced sculptures.  The majority of students took on the challenge of creating a mobile.