The Parade Company!

today was a momentous day in UPA art history, about 2 months ago the 4th and 5th grade students participated in a design contest for the Parade Company. It was a float design contest, the theme was "your Dream Neighborhood" one of our 4th grade students, Romance Keycer, won an honorable mention. out of hundreds of drawing, Romance and 4 other students got an honorable mention and one student got the grand prize, their drawing was turned into a larger than life float for the Thanksgiving Parade on Woodward Ave.

Romance, brother Romantic and Mom

He was one of 5 honorable mentions

so proud!

we were able to walk around the warehouse and see lots of the floats.

they were interviewed by WJR News Radio

lots of media were also there.

the winning float

2nd Grade overlapping circles.

ATTENTION!!!!!

the art room is looking for some donations!

White copy paper

Kleenex

Please help the art room stay healthy this year and bring in a box of Kleenex for us all to use!

also paper!

Thank you so much!

Ms. Seiklay

2nd 6 week change

It is now the start of the 2nd 6 weeks of school! that means AMPT changes, and KINDERGARTEN!!!! today Ms. Josephson's class was very good and had a lot to say about the art room, we also talked about shapes and colors and the class room procedures. The whole class did a wonderful job fallowing directions and staying in there seats! good job guys!

Ghamba is coming along!

The 5th grade classes are working hard to get Ghamba (Mrs. Tiggs class named him) ready for his debut at Marry Grover College.

They are using an art past that will dry clear so that they recycled news paper will be abele to be seen.

UPA 5th grade classes will be participating in The Elephant Project at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

African Artist Andries Botha presents Nomkhubulwane, a 9-foot tall, 1-ton South African elephant sculpture made from recycled motor truck tires which has traveled across the Atlantic. Says Botha, “It is made in collaboration with the Magqubo Ntombela foundation and the wilderness movement… This elephant serves as a creative symbolic reference that calls people to new imaginative conversations with our ailing co-existence with other living things.”

the school will be making a baby elephant that will be on display with the larger elephant at the museum! we will be making our with recycled paper.

i will post photos as we go along and as she/he gets a name, and a face.

for more info on the project, visit The Human Elephant Foundation

Technology and art go hand and hand at the DIA!!!