Gallery Rally Art Show

This year we have 33 artists from Geer Park who have work featured in Dearborn’s Gallery Rally! Their artwork will be located in the  City Hall ArtSpace connector building on April 6th and will be open from 10-5. There will also be 9 other galleries around Dearborn featuring artist work, and if you go and …

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Fourth Grade Fauvism Self Portraits

Fourth grade artists created self portraits and painted them in a Fauvism style! They first learned about some of the “rules” and proportions about drawing faces and then used a photo of themselves to try to see some of their unique details. Then they learned about Fauvism and used unnatural colors and expressive brushstrokes to …

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5th Grade Ceramic Masterpieces

Fifth grade artists have been learning about hand building with clay! They learned about creating with coils, slabs, and how to slip and score. They each created a sculpture that used all three of these methods. Some students chose to create a functional piece and others chose to create a more decorative sculpture.   They …

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Kindergarten Self Portraits

Kindergarten artists have created self portraits! They began by mixing their skin color from yellow, red, white, and black. They tried to match the color they were mixing to their skin color as best they could- we texted a small dot on our hands to see how close we could get!   Then they drew …

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Fourth Grade Masks

Fourth grade artists looked at masks from many different cultures. They looked at the different styles of masks and learned about the different reasons for wearing masks. Then they each created their own mask! They first had to create their own form to build the mask on out of newspaper and cardboard.  Then they were …

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Third Grade Busy Cities

Third grade artists looked at the paintings of James Rizzi for inspiration for this art project. They each drew their own cityscapes with overlapping buildings and practiced changing the parts of the face to show different emotions on their buildings.