Art Project Description

The Cesar Chavez Charter School Art Program prides itself on exposing the students to a diverse ethnicity of artists with a strong emphasis on the work of Latin American and Spanish artists and the crafts of those countries.  The 6^th graders do a clay self-portrait tile in the style of artist Marge Dunlap.  These tiles are a graduation gift to Cesar Chavez Charter School and are hung on the school campus.  We also promote an annual school community project where every student participates in a permanent piece of art to remain at the school.  The following individual projects will take place during the 2006-2007 school year and are listed by grade.

Kinder:  Frida Kahlo self portrait, pumpkin painting warm cool colors, sugar skulls, pastel turkey, clay tea cup  and Mother’s Day frame, Guatemala sewing, Chinese dragon, oil pastel hearts, muslin pillow, watercolor monarch butterfly, African rainstick and mask, Eric Carle caterpillar, Joan Miro painting, wooden skeleton, leaf prints, Picasso assemblage

1^st:  watercolor, Aztec snake mask, Aboriginal painting, Native American red clay animal, Winter Solstice foil candle holder, Peruvian Inca embroidery, chalk heart, Gyotaku fish printing, Rufino Tamayo acrylic painting, African scratch foam prints, Mexican artist Zuppini tempera paint hands, wooden animals or Alebrijes,

2^nd:  watercolor leaves, Jose Posada skeleton prints, Diego Rivera mural of cheetah (school mascot) chalk pastel sea shells, Winter Solstice candle, Roualt self portrait , African plaster masks, Piet Mondrian tissue project, clay Mother’s Day frame, Mayan symbol pillow, paper mache Aztec animals, Helen Frankenthaler abstract painting, Van Gogh sunflower

3^rd: clay leaf bowl, Guatemalan animal masks plaster, Rufino Tamayo Jaguar acylic painting, Jim Dine pastel hearts, clay frame, colored pencil dragon, African prints, Van Gogh self portrait, Basquiat graffiti acrylic paint, flower printing, Chitzanitzah watercolor

4^th:  wooden animals/alebrijes, Quetzalcoatl mask, Amate wood bark painting, acrylic reindeer on wood scraps, clay Chinese zodiac animal boxes, Japanese Sumi-e painting, Goya foil print, Chumash rubber linoleum block prints, Frida Kahlo self portrait, Mayan designs watercolor, cartoon drawing, paper mache hearts to Friendship Center

5^th and 6^th :  Egyptian masks, Dia de Los Muertos cigar box assemblage, Marge Dunlap clay portrait, Mayan red clay bowls, Mandala rubber print blocks, Picasso line drawings, Aztec monoprint, black artist Jacob Lawrence acrylic painting, Japanese Sumi-E painting, cartooning, Native American prints, Poverty Show submissions

School Community Projects:

Participation in the I Madonnari Chalk Festival

Submission to the Community Action Commission “Poverty Exhibit”

Donation of paper mache hearts to Friendship Adult Day Center, Montecito

Mosaic of school mascot, the cheetah

February 2007 Arts Alive! gallery exhibit