Submissions from Drawing Prompt #1 "Draw a Rainstorm of Donuts" 🍩

These are Awesome!!!!!!  Keep them coming.

Sydney Grade10

Hunter's Mom - Grade "Life"

Hunter - Grade 7

Leo - Grade 6 (Sculpture)

Ryan - Kindergarten

Ryan's Mom

Daniel - Grade 10

Hope - Grade 4

Liam - Grade 8

 Maddie - Grade7

Leo - Grade 6

Leo's Mom

Nicholas - Grade 6

Samantha  Grade 3

Charlie - Grade 7, Sadie - Grade 5, Sallie - Grade 3

Lian - Grade 4

Abby - Grade 3

Riley - Grade 5

Jocelyn, Grade 7

Isla - Grade 2

Paul - Grade 4

Lillian - Grade 5

Molly - Grade 7

Celia - Grade 7

Nolan - Grade 5

Lily - Grade 6

Vincent - Grade 7

Jake - Grade 5

Maddison - Grade 6  (Digital work)

Isabella - Grade 3

Rebel - Age 5

Mariela - Grade 6

Edi - Grade 3

Danica - Grade 8

Olivia - Age 5

G-Raf - Grade 6

Zack - Grade 7

Owen - Grade 3

Brendan - Grade 2

Johnny - Grade 7

Wes - Grade 3

Creating Art While We Social Distance

K-12 parents/students. I want to start a little drawing activity/challenge for those Abington students that are missing art class (like me). This is aimed at K-12 students, but if parents/grandparents want to participate and get those pencils out also please do. ( I want to stress that this is not an assignment nor graded in any way) Every 3-4 days I'll post a drawing prompt and would you please ask your child/children if they want to take part. No pressure, but thought it would be fun and help pass a little time in a creative manner. Drawing skill is acquired with practice, so just ask them to do their best and have fun with it. At 61, I'm still working on improving my drawing ability. Creativity, playfulness is always more important than skill. They can use any material available and add color if they choose. If possible, please send me a photo of your child's or children's finished drawing with their first name only and grade/age to

mikedirado@abingtonps.org

I will post as many as I can on my blog page or perhaps start a facebook page just for the drawings.

Plus, why not throw in a little art history as well for inspiration. The painting I've attached titled "Golconda" is by the artist Rene Magritte and fits nicely with the prompt. Plus it looks they're practicing social distancing🙂

Drawing prompt #1 "Draw a rainstorm of donuts" 🍩🍩

YOUTH ART MONTH 2020

March is National Youth Art Month. Youth Art Month is a celebration of the visual arts. Student exhibitions, public artworks, art festivals, and school events are held all over the country to raise awareness and support for the importance of quality visual arts programs in the schools. In Abington, we are displaying more than 700 pieces of art created by students in kindergarten through grade 4. The work will be on display at the Abington Public Library all month and part of April. BBES's exhibit will run from March 4 through March 23 and Woodsdale‘s will run from March 23 through April 13. Two Family/Community Viewing Receptions will be hosted on March 10th for BBES and April 2nd for Woodsdale. Both receptions are 5-7 pm. Thank you to the PTOs and the parent volunteers that helped us prepare the exhibits. Also a big thank you to the library for letting us take over their walls each year.

The photographs below shows some of the work from the BBES exhibit which was just installed today. Stop in and be overwhelmed with the explosion of color.

Middle and high school students will have their work displayed at the new school during Celebrate The Arts Festival on May 13 from 3:30 to 7:30. More details to follow.

Youth Art Month BBES and Woodsdale Art Exhibits at the Abington Public Library

I would like to thank and acknowledge all of those that helped make the BBES and Woodsdale Art Exhibits, during Youth Art Month, a great success.  Almost 800 works of art were displayed and the Abington Public Library walls were bursting with color.  We were told by the library staff that almost 750 visitors attended the two receptions.  Ribbons were handed out, lots of cookies consumed and a lot of art was appreciated.  A big thank you to the Beaver Brook and Woodsdale PTOs for helping coordinate volunteers, purchasing cookies and ribbons.  Thank you to all of the parents who generously gave their time to help us prepare, hang up and take down so many pieces of art.  Not one crooked or mislabeled piece of art.  Awesome! Thank you to Mr. Hawes and Mrs. Zinni and their respective offices for helping us print labels and send out notices.  It was truly a group effort and that is what made it such a success.  A nice memory for me was when I was able to witness the excitement of a few students in the kindergarten classes as they pointed out their displayed artwork to their parents. Photographs below are from the exhibits.