Mosaic Mural - 2011 (Jan- May)

MOSAIC MADNESS- What’s going on???

In December, Sonata Kazimieraitiene, an artist at The Lilstreet Art Center, worked with Attea students to teach/help the students make a large scale mosaic for the first floor of the school, being funded by the PTA. The students will continue to work on the mosaic for the next several months:  the 6th grade in their regular art curriculum and the 7th/8th grade in Art Club, before and after school,  and in X Block. Sonata will visit again in March to work with Trimester 3 sixth graders.

See Sonata Kazimieraitiene's blog for examples of her amazing work: Sonata’s Blog.

PARENTS:

Parents and administrators visited in January for a Mosaic Madness party in which students gave a guided tour of the mosaic in progress and taught them how to create and glaze tiles for the mosaic.

We are in need of parents to help with the installation in February. Please contact Ms. Wu or Sandy Brennan to help! EMAIL SANDY

THEME: We are all different, yet the same.

This basic outline of a design is a compilation of many student designs and ideas. Every student had the opportunity to submit a design. Ms. Wu and a small group of students decided the main flow of and combined many ideas. While one may not recognize any part as their own design, he or she may see that certain parts originated from their ideas and we encourage students to continue to bring their thoughts forward.

On the left side, we have a lady (Mother Nature, as some are calling her) that turns into a river and flows into the entire scene as the water (stream), land and horizon. Her hair going to the left will create the horizon line and above will be a sun created with a design of a sunflower center (Fibonacci Sequence), paintbrush tips fading into sunflower petals as the sun rays. Below the dress of Mother Nature will be an array of flowers.

The four trees represent each of the four seasons. The tree on the right will reach out and turn into a paintbrush near the right of the design. The paintbrush will paint the rocks and mountains in the scene and then drip down to a pond. Below the pond on the bottom right are three different people (patterned) and their shadow combines into one person with a patchwork of personalities and styles.

The birds fly out in a V-formation and each will have a different pattern.

The whole design flows to the right into a family (above the office door) and then as it carries on to the right, there will be a space theme.