Art
A Place That Accepts Us All (Grades K-8)
- Item Number
- 134
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 850 USD to gsb9cfc3f
- Number of Bids
- 23 - Bid History
Item Description
This year all the students at Lesley Ellis who come to the art studio participated in a large collaborative painting inspired by the artist Alma Woodsey Thomas.
Thomas was an African-American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington D.C. and is now recognized as a major American painter. She is best known for exuberant, colorful abstract paintings created after she retired from teaching. Thomas achieved success as an African-American female artist despite the segregation and prejudice of her time and was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. Thomas' distinctive mosaic-style paintings and nuanced use of color informed our collaborative piece.
I split the canvas into nine sections for each classroom that I teach, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, using the letters L, E, S as dividing lines. I had a vague plan for color story across the piece to bring the sections together into an abstracted landscape. Each student contributed a set of brush strokes in a specific color that we worked together to mix. They considered the position of the class section in relation to others, and the colors that were close to their own brush strokes to create dreamy color gradients or pops of contrast.
This was a really fun project to work on and I loved how students would drop in to see how it progressed as other classes added to it!
Thank you to all my K-8 students, all 166 of you, for helping to create this beautiful painting!
Acrylic on Canvas 40"x25"
Donated By:
Grade K-8
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