ANIMALS AT THE MUSEUM CASA (Cultural After School Adventures) with PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky Early Childhood School Program by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College
The Cultural After School Adventures (CASA) program, provided by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College, is made possible through the generosity of New York City Council Member Peter Koo, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, 405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367 718.997.4747 gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu www.gtmuseum.org
PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky Early Childhood School CASA Students LINA AHN ANAHI ALVARADO DAVID ALTAMIRANO YULE BAE LUNA BAE KAWAII CHEN FAITH CHOI STEFANIE CHUNG TIFFANY CHUNG CHELSEY COBOS ELIAS CRUZ LEIA EULAU GIANLUCA FLUMIANI ASHLEY HOYOS WILLIAM HUA RACHEL JIANG EDDY KANG EVAN KANG JUDY KIM GEMMA KNOWD
DANIEL LEE RICHARD LEE, JR. SHINBEE LEE HUIFEN LI VIAN LIAN HARMONY LIN WEN LIN AVERY LIU JUDY NAMKOONG KIMBERLY RAUDA LAKSHAN SARAVANAN CATHERINE WANG MIKE XIE JAYDEN YUAN YUICHIRO ZHANG ASHER ZHAO ENDY ZHAO JUSTIN (ZHENG YAO) ZHOU RYAN ZHENG
Patricia Costa, Principal, PS 242 Aurora Garcia-Tunon, Vice Principal, PS 242 Brita Helgesen, Program Developer & Teaching Artist Mary Giancoli, Teaching Artist Fabiola Postrel, PS 242 Teaching Assistant Marisol Santos, PS 242 Teaching Assistant
Introduction Brita Helgesen, teaching artist The 2014-2015 Cultural After School Art program is an arts education class designed for forty second-graders at PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky early childhood school. During this program, students engaged with art objects from the Godwin-Ternabch Museum and other collections, studied cultures ancient to present day, learned elements of art through different media and styles, and most importanly explored creativity and self-expression. Each lesson was a challenge that students approached each week with eager and excited curiosity. From watercolor and ink paintings, to drawings, collage and sculpture, and even printmaking and photography, each student partcipated in open-ended problem-solving and creative investigations. It was a delight to see the developments in each individual student over the six month program. With each class, minds expanded, focus sharpened, and hands worked more deftly as the students engaged in discussion and developed modes of expression and artmaking skills. And each week, each individual took ownership over their final product, knowing that they will be displayed in their own “Animals in the Museum� exhibition at the end of the program! I hope the students, their families and teachers, and the greater community enjoy the work on display in the Museum, and can delight in the small selection of works reproduced in this catalogue as much as I enjoyed working with the second graders!
Portraits The CASA progam began with an exploration of identity through portraiture. Students learned about different portrait styles, and discussed the ways in which portraits convey messages about their subject. After looking at classical and modern portraits, students made their own portraits and embellished them with patterns and backgrounds.
Ashley Hoyos
Lakshan Saravanan
Judy Namkoong
Kawaii Chen
Kimberly Rauda
Mike Xie
Jayden Yuan
Shinbee Lee
Matisse Cutouts Students learned about the Modern artist Henri Matisse, who created artwork later in his life by making paper cutouts. After reading a story about Henri Matisse, students made their own Matisse inspired cutout compositions.
Asher Zhao
Eddy Kang
Endy Zhao
Gianluca Flumiani
Daniel Lee
Avery Liu
Greek vases Students were introduced to ancient Greece and the history and purpose of the shapes and designs in ancient Greek pottery. Students then created their own vase shape and decorated it with registers of their own geometric pattern.
Mike Xie
Luna Bae
Vian Lian
Lucas Lin
Judy Namkoong
Gianluca Flumiani
Kimberly Rauda
Jayden Yuan
Egyptian Animals Students were introduced to the art of the ancient Egyptians, its visual elements and style, including the use of animal symbolism and even hieroglyphs. Students created their own Egyptian style animal and completed their compositions by writing their names in hieroglyphs.
Tiffany Chung
Mike Xie
Vian Lian
Richard Lee, Jr.
Huifen Li
Evan Kang
Ashley Hoyos
Lina Ahn
Stefanie Chung
Harmony Lin
Chinese New Year Dragons Students explored meaning and symbolism of dragons in Chinese mythology and art, including depictions of Chinese imperial dragons and their use in traditional New Years celebrations. The students loved practicing collaging technique and scissor skills to make their own New Years dragons.
Harmony Lin
Catharine Wang
Avery Liu
Rachel Jiang
Wen Lin
Evan Kang
Lakshan Saravanan
Huifen Li
Jungle Landscapes Looking at the work of French artist Henri Rousseau, students learned about perspective including foreground, middle-ground and background. Inspired by the artist’s imaginative and wild jungle scenes, students explored these elements of perspective in their own jungle compositions.
Daniel Lee
Elias Cruz
Jayden Yuan
Eddy Kang
Lina Ahn
Leia Eulau
Judy Kim
Yuichiro Zhang
Korean Minhwa Paintings This lesson started with listening to Korean folk tales and looking at Minhwa (literally painting of the people) art. With ink and watercolor, the students created their own paintings based on the Korean folk art and tales.
Yule Bae
Ashley Hoyos
Daniel Lee
Vian Lian
Lina Ahn
Mike Xie
Catharine Wang
Judy Kim
Luna Bae
Rachel Jiang
Richard Lee, Jr.
Shinbee Lee
Stefanie Chung
Tiffany Chung
Elias Cruz
Wen Lin
Anahi Alvarado
Batik Owls Students learned about the Batik dying process used in many cultures including Indonesia and Africa. By drawing their own owls with crayons, they then replicated the wax resist batik technique by crumpling and dying their compositions with paint.
William Hua
Gemma Knowd
Faith Choi
Evan Kang
Leia Eulau
Rachel Jiang
Lakshan Saravanan
Tiffany Chung
Jayden Yuan
Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou
African Masks Students learned about the function of masks in many African cultures including Baule, Biombo, Dan, Goma, Kota, Lulua, Pende and Teke. Looking at mask examples from each of these cultures, students created their own masks with geometric forms and patterns.
Anahi Alvarado
Yule Bae
Leia Eulau
Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou
Yuichiro Zhang
Kimberly Rauda
Huifen Li
Chelsey Cobos
William Hua
Ryan Zheng
Endy Zhao
Sunprints Students got to go out-of-doors in this lesson on using the power of the sun to create artistic prints. Working with different objects including doilies, leaves, stars, rocks, and even dinosaur stickers, students created shadows on the paper and made these fun compositions.
Gianluca Flumiani
Gemma Knowd
Kimberly Rauda
Luna Bae
Kawaii Chen
Totems In this collaborative project, students learned about the function of totems and animal representations in various cultures. Listening to totem pole tales, each chose an animal representative of themselves and created an individual totem figure for the class totem pole.
Ryan Zheng
Judy Namkoong Avery Liu
Lucas Lin Chelsey Cobos
Anahi Alvarado
Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou
Mike Xie
David Altamirano
Korean Crowns In this final lesson, students learned about royal Korean crowns. Using paper quilling and other decorative techniques, each made their own crown. The last class was celebrated by completing the crowns and jumping in front of the camera to capture these kings and queens of CASA.