Welcome to 2020

Welcome to 2020! I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year! We'll spend the first two days of the school year focusing and setting goals for the remainder of the year and reflecting on what we've done so far! Our Artist Trading Cards are now all sent out so we will be receiving the last few packages back shortly.

Sent out our last envelope of 2019 #Artist Trading Cards to #APart students in @bellafiore3’s class in Wisconsin for our annual #art swap! Fun way to start the New Year with #creativity! pic.twitter.com/Slb4tbFYAk

— Tim Needles (@timneedles) December 27, 2019

Today we'll learn a bit about author Dan Pink and what motivates us as people and author Jon Gordon who came from Smithtown and introduced the One Word idea!

Art Honor Society: Artist Trading Card Day

Today in Art Honor Society and AP Art it is finally Artist Trading Card Day!  We received ATCs from around the world from Mini Mattisse's ATC swap. and today we will be sharing them and using the cards we receive for our next project.

Everyone will choose a card without based on the art without looking where it's from to reinterpret in a different medium.  You can use any materials you like and find inspiration in anything about the card ranging from the colors, shapes, subject matter, design, or even the story about the school or town that was shared.  Above is an example from last year's ATC swap from Emily in AP Art who used the colors and design as inspiration for a garment and the example below is from Luke who added some detail and intricacy to the elementary school student's design.

This year we received cards from Thailand, England and all around Italy as well as across the US from states such as Texas, Washington, Georgia, Missouri, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee, Indian, and Minnesota.

It's like Christmas Our trading cards arrived today from as far away as Italy

 The cards we sent out are also starting to turn up around the world and I've received messages from teachers in Tennessee and Texas who have our cards.

#soexcited #atcswap @k12artchallenge @SkaggsElem @GrundlerArt pic.twitter.com/vFVYElr0SH

— mrs. carter (@skaggsart) December 6, 2016

Update: We just received messages from more classrooms who have more of our ATCs:

Thanks @timneedles !!! We got got some of your #ATCswap cards🖌@MiniMatisse pic.twitter.com/jRmEmDQKP3

— Barbara Lardner (@art_inklings) December 8, 2016

Studio Art: Artist Trading Card Interpretation

Our final assignment for the semester in Studio Art class is to take the Artist Trading Card's we received from K-6 students around the world via the MiniMatisse ATC exchange and create an artistic interpretation like the example above from Emily.  Some cards have more information than others but we will choose cards blind and your work just needs to have a basis in the ATC.  The response works should be larger than ATC's so use your sketchbook and we will share and collect them on Thursday January 21.

Drawing Class: Artist Trading Cards

The Artist Trading Cards we made earlier in the year in AP, Drawing, and Studio Art Class are now beginning to reach their destinations around the word and our cards should arrive shortly.  I received the tweet below from Abby Schukei, an art teacher colleague in Ralston,Nebraska who received some of our cards.  I'll post any other cards that are spotted out in the world here and to my twitter account, I'm curious where they all end up!

.@timneedles looks like I received some of your students' ATC! #K12ArtChat pic.twitter.com/vDiLB4g2BR

— Abby Schukei (@ARTschukei) January 5, 2016