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2010

Fort East Martello Museum
ART CAMP 2010
June 7 to July 16 2010
Grades 1 - 6

"Kids of Summer Art Show" will be held
July 31, 2010 at Fort East Martello Museum

Six weeks of exciting art classes offered by the Key West Art and Historical Society in June and July will culminate with the “Kids of Summer” art show which will take place at Ft East Martello Museum, 3501 South Roosevelt Boulevard on Saturday July 31st from 2 to 4 pm. Parents, students and the public are invited to attend the event.
Over 75 grade and middle school students took part in the Artcamp 2010 experience.
Paintings, watercolors, sculptures and carvings, many based on the museum’s collection of folk art will be on view as well as kites, printmaking and photography.
The black and white pinhole photographs document the haunting beauty of Fort East Martello Museum.

Suzanne Pereira, curator of education for the
Key West Art and Historical Society
would like to thank the following sponsors for their ongoing support:

The Kids Fund
Ricky’s Blue Heaven
Remmey Antiques and Fine Arts
Harpoon Harry’s Restaurant
Barker Services Inc.
The Cultural Preservation Society
Tortugas Jack Hackett
Ken Uracius Stone & Lime Imports
Schooner Jolly II Rover
David Freeman-Porter Allen Insurance
Giovanni Novara.

WEEK 6
Grade 6
July12-July16

Pinhole photography Explore the use of photography as a means of self expression! Capture the beauty of Fort East Martello and look at your photographs in a new way. Learn camera handling, professional techniques of seeing photographically, composition essentials and the language of light while exploring your surroundings.

WEEK ONE-
ArtCamp 2010 Sponsor - The Cultural Preservation Society
Grades K - 1
June 7-11

Blue Elephants Rule!
Blue elephants, why not? Read “Babar’s Book of Color” Let your color imagination run wild. Blue elephants rule.

Cool Clay Drawings.
Draw with clay. Roll clay into thin rope shapes, flatten circles make triangles and square shapes. Group them together into a clay composition. Rub paint over surface.

Go Fly a Kite
Create a Babar inspired kite. Use tissue paper collage, oil pastels, and glitter for your exotic eastern inspired elephant kite.

Marking Time with Mario
Visit our folk art collection. Make a drawing of a favorite Sanchez character. Transfer the image to a printing surface and make a print on pre-painted watercolor paper. Wax crayons, watercolor resist techniques.

Babar’s Museum of Art
Read Babar’s Museum of Art. Recreate a masterpiece using torn paper, textural rubbings water and crayon resist methods.

Fun Funky Fans.
Create a funky fan for cooling off in the summer.

WEEK THREE
ArtCamp 2010 Sponsor - Remmey Antiques and Fine Arts
Grade 3
June 21-25

Glad Fun Crazy Hats
Learn about the way people dressed in the past and the importance of hats. Decorate a plain straw hat with hand made paper flowers, drawings, beads, feathers and ribbons.

Self Portrait with Hat
Photo ontinuation of hat project. Have a picture taken wearing your hat. Create a self portrait with hat using a photo image enhanced with oil crayons in the pop art style.

Old Island Dollhouse Diorama
Check out the Oldest House dollhouse. Create miniature doll characters out of large beads, clay, muslin, paper. Display them against a miniature hand painted dollhouse backdrop.

Papio the Sculptor
Explore the work of Stanley Papio. Make sculpture out of recyclable materials.

Babar, Buckteeth and Shut-Up-You-Mouth
Babar steps into Mario world. Create a composition and include Babar as a Mario Sanchez character.

WEEK FOUR
ArtCamp 2010 Sponsor - Ricky’s Blue Heaven and Salute

Grade 4
June 28-July 2
Babar USA
Take a digital photo of your favorite Key West site. Make a drawing of Babar, color, cut out and collage onto your hand-colored photo. Digital camera required.

Birds of a Feather.
Examine illustrations of James Audobon. Create a pencil, ink and watercolor image based on Audobon’s Florida bird illustrations. Learn about the Feather Wars and the eventual protection of birds.

Textural Pastel Painting
Take an abstract approach to composition. Play with texture and color. Create holes and lines on a textile surface. Adhere to a cardboard, add gesso, paint impasto techniques and oil pastel color to create a rich engaging surface.

Funky Fiber Fusion
Create textured paper cloth. Start with muslin cloth, glue colored tissue paper to the surface, add oil pastel or watercolor to get depth and richness.

Carve Me a Piece
“Bas Relief” translates to “low-raised work”. It is a type of sculpture that creates a transition between flat and 3-D surface. Create a carved painting in the Mario Sanchez style.

WEEK FIVE
ArtCamp 2010 Sponsor - Ken Uracius Stone & Lime Imports

Grade 5
July 5-July 9


Leave An Impressions
Collograph is a way of making prints from a plate on which collage materials is glued. Explore this unusual form of printmaking.

Exploring the Color of Emotion
Create a painting using a variation of one color. Add texture and surface. Use color to indicate a feeling. Cool blues, happy yellows, razzle dazzle reds. Combine your color composition with fun collaged words to indicate color emotions.

Strike A Pose
Sculptural figures can be expressive of emotion. Working with a wire armature, paper strips, and a coating medium, construct a 3D figure that is expressive of an activity or emotion such as happiness.

The Reconstructed Book
Using a blank book as a base, transform it using paint, impasto techniques, gel mediums, words and found objects.

HOB Students Visit Custom House Museum

Stephanie Manaher and the eight grade language arts class visited the Custom House Museum on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Fifty three students viewed the current “Babar USA” and other exhibits; took photographs and enjoyed an educational tour given by the curator of education, Suzanne Pereira.

Among the students was Mario Suarez, grand nephew of folk artist Mario Sanchez. He is pictured here with curator of education Suzanne Pereira in front of a popular Mario Sanchez carved relief painting.

From left to right: Nutcracker Holiday Artcamp
2009 students: Alexis Simons, Makaela Sellers,
Camden Switzer and Brittany Mira.

Nutcracker Holiday ArtCamp
At Ft. East Martello Museum

- Nutcracker ballet inspired ornaments
- Hand painted paper fans - folk felt ornaments
- Collage paper jewelry - origami - recycled art ornaments

Week 1: December 21, 22, 23, 2009
Week 2: December 28, 29, 30, 2009
10am - noon. Grade 1-5.

Ft. East Martello Museum
3501 South Roosevelt Blvd.
Key West

HOB Students Visit Custom House Mario Sanchez Exhibit

Key West Art and Historical Society and Suzanne Pereira, Curator of Education welcomed ninety-five sixth grade advanced reading students from Horace O’Bryant Middle School to the Custom House Museum on February 9th. The students, accompanied by Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Samantha Peterson, Elizabeth Young, Executive Director of Florida Keys Council of the Arts, Denise Santiago, Vice Principal of HOB joined Nance Frank, guest curator of the Mario Sanchez exhibit titled “100 Years and Better Than Ever” for an informative tour of folk artist Mario Sanchez and his work. “Mario Sanchez has been looked upon by curators and historians as the most important Cuban-American folk artist of the 20th Century,” said Nance Frank. His scenes record his impressions of daily life in Key West during the early 20th Century. His subjects are street vendors and shopkeepers peddling their wares, dancers and musicians, gossiping women and chicken thieves, mischievous children and cigar makers — all portrayed in bas-relief carvings, known as intaglios, painted with brilliant primary colors. The group had an opportunity to view an exhibition of more than 70 original painted wood carvings by the late Key West folk artist Mario Sanchez. Some of the carvings come from private collections.

Pictured (from left) are: Liz Young, Samantha Peterson, Nance Frank and Denise Santiago.

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