Tamaki College Presentation#2

The College kids had all gone home, but the Art Teacher, Chris , who was dressed in a very cool jacket that matched the school colours, told us all about their art programme that produced the cool work we saw. He also gave us an impromptu lesson about NCEA, which was very interesting because most of us are from Primary Schools. We could see that they put real effort into producing high class artwork.
Great stuff Tamaki College!

Tamaki Intermediate Presentation #2

This was the 2nd last presentation of the day. These guys are real stayers!
The students presented their work have gleaned ideas from a show called 'One Man against the Gods'. It was the story of Maui-tikitiki-a-taranga. They then amalgamated 5 ideas from the story so that all the artworks are composites of parts of the story.
We think this is a very clever idea and gave rise to some really excellent artwork.
Well done Tamaki!

Tamaki Primary Presentation#2

The presenters talked about how they made the 3D papier mache birds.
We thought the presentation was really cool.
We especially liked it when they did the Pukeko Stomp. You guys really shake it up!
The explanation of the art process they followed was really clear and well expressed.

Sommerville Special School

Sommerville School students studied famous artists and found out interesting things about them. Then they looked at their artworks. They then proceeded to produce their own artworks modelled on the work of that artist.
Sommerville arranged their artwork in the foyer of our exhibition so that every person who entered had to walk past their beautiful work.
The work is very colourful and bright and beautifully mounted under lights so it really shows up.
Some of the student viewers commented that some of the artworks looked shiney as though they had a metal or glass surface.
It was the first time Sommerville had joined our Expo and it was really great to have them involved.
You ROCK Sommerville!

Pt England School - Ask Arty Betty

The school day has finished and Arty Betty is putting on her final performance for the visitors who are coming in after school. Lots of hard working teachers are arriving to view the Art work in peace! And we are expecting lots of kids will come back to visit after school with their parents. If you haven't got down to Art Alive yet, why not? Come on down... you will be surprised at the high standard of Art work on display. And our student presenters could give adults a few tips :) Good to hear intelligent questions coming in from the audience too.... We hear that a few pieces of art work have been sold today too! Well done team.

St Patrick's Panmure

St Patrick's presented their Reduce,Reuse,and Recycle show to a crowd of attentive Tamaki College students. It is amazing to see what they have done this term -all with materials brought along from home. I enjoyed the quote from one student on their video: "we learned that you don't have to use flash materials to make some cool things". That's a good message for us. Their wearable art display is fantastic and the other forms of art on display have given us some good ideas for things we could do in the holidays! Well presented team!

Glenbrae #2

These presenters of all ages were confident and gave very clear descriptions of the different styles of art each class learned. The wonderful description of how to creat art like Monet's waterlillies by the Year Four class definitely inspired me to try to create my own! The Year Fives focused on creating sea creatures using dough, which sounded like heaps of fun. Room 7 looked at painting, particularly landscapes and human figures, and we LOVED Year 0 and 1's fish that they drew using Kidpix! Fantastic work Glenbrae.

Panmure Bridge #3

These guys just get better and better! More energy, more charisma, more enthusiasm, and the audience loved them! The presenters were great, and the models were fantastic. I don't know how they manage to walk so well in their massive costumes! They're definitely supermodels. The digital photos in their booth are spectacular, make sure to check them out when you're here, so that you can learn all about the different types of shots they took of all the things they checked out!

Panmure Bridge #2

This was Panmure Bridge's second performance, as they treated to an encore! They were just as fantastic as the first time, although I'm a little bit scared to hear that there might be sharks in the Tamaki Estuary!!

Tamaki Primary

The focus of Tamaki Primary's art was birds. Each year looked at a different type of art, but all was about the pukeko. They did crayon and dye art, collage, paper mache, bird masks, and mystical peacock fans, which they created using feathers and other exciting materials. I really liked the paper mache birds, which were created by blowing up balloons and gluing shredded pieces of paper to it! Tamaki Primary finished by doing the Pukeko Stomp, a really cool dance, for us.

St Patricks

St Patricks used recycled materials like egg cartons, boxes, wrapping paper, string and beads to create their works of art. The focus of their inquiry was to do the three R's: reduce, reuse and recycle! Then they brainstormed ideas of how to use these materials. They made dresses and masks, candles and even soap out of their recycled stuff! They even made a enormous fossil out of bottle caps and gladwrap! Their finished products look amazing, they should be really proud of themselves!

Pt England #2

The first group to do their second performance, Pt England was just as great this time around! Arty Betty once again thrilled the audience, and all the different guests were fantastic to listen to. I especially enjoyed hearing from Sally the shoe, who told us all about how she'd been learning to imagine things from the point of view of a shoe! It was pretty cool. Tamaki Intermediate was here to watch the presentation, and were great guests.

Tamaki Intermediate

Tamaki Intermediate went to see a production called "One Man Against the Gods," and it impressed them so much that they decided to use it as their theme for Art Alive. They designed artwork based on Maui and mythical landscapes, using lino printig, pastel, crayon and Indian Ink. Their booth looks amazing, you can really see all the hard work has paid off! Good work guys, and thanks to your lovely presenters.

Pt England - Viewpoint

This was the Arty Betty Show! Arty Betty was an Oprah style character who interviewed a succession of artists from throughout the school about what they had been doing this term. Team 3 talked about all the wonderful artwork in the Glen Innes community that they had been to look at, and we could see that lots of the kids in the audience recognised the pieces of art too! We didn't know that there were 16 different landmarks right on our back doorstep! Arty Betty even interviewed a jandal and a sneaker! What a woman! Great job guys.

Glenbrae School

A team of students from Glenbrae School have just shown us the amazing work they have been doing this term. Their Inquiry topic has been water - "Water, Water Everywhere". And they sure live up to this name - they even have runnig water i their display area. They showed us how they have created their beautiful artwork using a variety of mediums and they did some cool digital art as well. Their very confident presenters came from all their classes, even the youg children. Well done Glenbrae.

St Pius X

St Pius has been learning about the underwater world and the fish that live there. All the classes have been learning about different subjects, like Room 6 and the angler fish. Johnny and Heimoana presented their subject wearing masks and snorkels! It was pretty cool!

Tamaki College

Tamaki College told us all about the treatment of women in history. They used pop art and lots of different types of art to demonstrate their topic. They also told us about pointilism, which is about mixing colours to make it look like other colours from a distance. Well done!

Panmure Bridge - Digital Photography

Wow! Panmure Bridge started the day off amazingly! Jaiden and Robert presented their work confidently, and they were really funny! We heard about how they were motivated, went exploring, asked questions, found the answers, and communicated it to everyone else. Then they finished it off with a fashion show! I really liked the historical building as well as the waka, which looked really cool. Great job, PBS!

Good Morning!

Welcome everyone, our day at Tamaki College has begun! Pt England Year 5 and 6 and Glenbrae are just arriving to watch Panmure Bridge's first performance. It looks like it's going to be great! Hope to see you all here sometime today.

Art Alive 2007

We are back with an exciting day ahead of us to share what we have all been doing this term in our schools.
We have most of the schools from last year back with us and two new schools joining in.
On Thursday June 28th we will all be getting together at the Tamaki College hall to share our experiences with Art Alive. Knowing the fantastic work that goes on in our cluster of schools, I can predict we are in for a wonderful day.

This year we have not got together during the term at all, so it will be a wonderful surprise to see how each school has approached the topic "Art Alive". Why don't you start the blogging process by adding a comment to this post telling us how YOUR school has approached Art Alive.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Dorothy Burt