Classroom Art

Item Description

Medium: Risograph print on paper

Process: Each first-grade class created a risograph print on paper using numbers, letters, and solid shapes. Each print is presented as a framed piece with an accompanying legend of each student's inspiration.

Inspiration: In a time where things are becoming increasingly digital, a nostalgic love for ephemera and vintage design emerges. Invented by Noboru Hayama in Japan in 1946, the risograph print creates layers of color that appear similar to a screen print, using a special soy-based ink called RISO ink, also invented by Hayama. In first grade, our students begin to see their ABCs and 123s as a way to endlessly explore the world around them. In the process of making a risograph, each student imagines that letter/number in a story of its own.

Coordinators: Irene Faye Duller, Manae Ross, and Mika Stjernvall

The frame size is 20 x 28. 

The picture print inside is 11 x 17.

Item Special Note

A- Zeke: Alligator breaths fire just for fun. He swims in the ocean because thats where sardines are. Sometimes he eats coral and he helps sharks 

B- Betty: Betty is smiling because she’s happy about everything, because her life is pretty much perfect. 

C- Noguchi: Walk around the croc pond. Who knows how deep it can go. Don’t slip off a rock! Do you think it's a log? Don’t stop it! It could chomp you! (written by class during circle time) 

D- Daigo: Daigo looks at the sky 

E- Erika: She Lives with a group of elephants, goes to school, 102, likes lunch time, eats sour grass 

F- Dash: Bullfrog is bumpy. Green and yellow bumps. Loves Rocky road ice cream on Saturdays. 

G- Giulietta: Gibberish cat plays cards. 

H- Rien: This heart is special, It stands for love 

I - Kato sensei: This igloo has the magic to transport you somewhere else

J- Juniper: Jelly beans live in the cupboard and stack on top of each other and jump out. They taste tickely and tingly 

K- Kaila: There are stripes on the body and tail. Dad gives Kitty a treat. Kitty is hiding under the bed. 

L- Malachi: The lion Roars because someone is looking at him and he knows he’s a good lion 

M- Minh Giang: The mouse is eating cheese, he was staying home that day because it was raining. 

N- Nathalie: In the nest, The mama bird feeds the baby bird. 

O- Emerson: The octopus swims to a treasure chest to see whats inside. 

P- Adriana: Go to pineapple land where pineapples are. Tastes like bright pink sweetness, makes people happy. 

Q-Dedicated to Poet: A quail pitter patters though the brush, smells the poppies orange and bright. 

R- Ohio: Brery rabbit’s secret is that it changes the sky weather. The color is raspberry red. 

S- Shinju: The sea otter loves sounds, ocean sounds. 

T- Kaito: The Tuttle swims fast with his lightning speed, it has to swing away from the shark. 

U- Nathalie: Unicorns eat candy, dream about rainbows, like running in the grass. 

V- Gabbby: Vanilla ice cream, it feels so soft and stuff 

W- Emmerson: Wyatt is happy. Sometimes when I'm a little sad he cheers me up. 

X- James: X ray, Body is broken, you will see the broken parts 

Y- Betty: This yoyo was used in WWII. It was owned by my great great great grandfather and passed down. It is made of wood, it swishes. 

Z- Anwar: I taught this zebra how to play ZIP ZAP ZOP.