Art Honor Society: The Sketchbook Project

Today the National Art Honor Society will meet to review and prepare for our first field trip of the school year on Friday to the Brooklyn Museum and to plan the last pages of our collaborative Sketchbook Project.

Our Great Doubts and Massive Victories themed sketchbook is nearly complete so just a few more entries need to be finished to submit the book by the December 2015 break.  I've been sharing a few of the entries on social media and the response has been very positive, even from the Sketchbook Gallery itself.

Thanks @timneedles for sharing your students' Sketchbook Project! We can't wait to see the finished product! https://t.co/6MgiTATXUT

— Sketchbook Project (@sketchbkproject) November 17, 2015

Our field trip Friday marks the first time we'll visit the Brooklyn Museum but in addition to their terrific permanent collection we'll see exhibits from KAWS (image above) who attended SVA with me and two shows featuring Coney Island such as Stephen Powers installation (below).  We'll talk more about what to expect and see at the museum in our meeting!

Art Honor Society- Painting Murals

A1 This month I'm designing my @sketchbkproject featured in my intro & new classroom murals w/ students #k12artchat pic.twitter.com/ZWW13K6PRc

— Tim Needles (@timneedles) October 23, 2015

Today in Art Honor Society we will continue to work on painting murals in and outside of the classroom and we will also be going over some details about our upcoming field trip to the Brooklyn Museum of Art on December 4th.  We will discuss this years induction and collect all the names of students to be inducted at the beginning of our meeting so be sure to get there on time!

AP Art: Ai Weiwei and Swoon at the Brooklyn Museum

This weekend I had an opportunity to go see the exhibits at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and I have to really recommend checking them out for yourself.  the museum has a large exhibit by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and an installation by street artist Swoon that are both fascinating and their open until early August.

Check out the video below to see how they installed some of Ai Weiwei's work.

Keith Haring @ The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is showing the first large-scale exhibition of Keith Haring's work with addition materials that are not often seen such as: experimental videos, sketchbooks, and archival objects. The show runs March 16 – July 8, 2012 and is well worth checking out especially if it's a nice day because the museum is nearby the Brooklyn Botanical Garden which should be in full bloom!

Samo Basquiat

Now that you know a little about Jean-Michel Basquiat check out some more of his work by clicking the link above for the Brooklyn Museum. Let me know what you think in the comments section (remember just because we looked at him doesn't mean you have to like his work)