A little Art Room History....

As you can see from the beautiful impressionist inspired paintings examples (click each picture to enlarge), I have been infusing all Art History into my art lessons from day one here at Faiview. With ongoing field trips to the Milwaukee Art Museum we saw our city become an international destination with the Calatrava addition. Fairview students have been on a couple of private tours of the Bradley sculpture gardens and have visited the Haggerty Museum on the Marquette campus too! All places will be visited and re-visited as you grow at Fairview. In 1995 we worked with Reynaldo Hernadez on a beautiful four season mural that has stood the test of time. More on the mural history in the future.

However making art has always been the highlight of every student’s weekly visit to room 22! Learning new drawing techniques, painting, printmaking, fiber arts, and sculpting with all the donated junk is only surpassed with everyone’s favorite medium CLAY! We have a super sized Skutt kiln right in room 22 that is filled and fired almost weekly with everything from precious pinch pots to face formed masks.

The Milwaukee Public Schools Grade Level Art Learning Targets are the focus of each months’ theme in the art room and drive the learning we do while exploring all of the realms of the visual arts in grades K4-Sixth. With our second year of middle school elective art classes the 7/8th graders have a variety of quarterly art classes that meet twice a week; each of them focusing on studio art time with a research project that opens the whole building to almost 50 new artists each quarter!