{"id":2763,"date":"2019-02-20T20:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:33:32","slug":"arts-alive-burnaby-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2019\/02\/20\/arts-alive-burnaby-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Alive &#8211; Burnaby Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Burnaby Art Gallery hosts an art show (called Arts Alive) featuring works by Burnaby students. &nbsp;They alternate the years by secondary and elementary grades. &nbsp;This year it is the elementary schools\u2019 turn to participate. &nbsp;Teachers choose whether to participate, or not. &nbsp;Four classes at Rosser have opted into participating this year. &nbsp;Each year there is a theme for the art pieces; this year it is Art and Math.<\/p>\n<p>Our class worked through the process of creating a group art piece by looking into the works of Pablo Picasso. &nbsp;We read a story called, \u201cThe Girl With the Ponytail\u201d, which is about Picasso and his series of work centred around one model named Sylvette. &nbsp;We looked at a variety of his art pieces and at how he used many different shapes (our math connection) instead of typically-created faces.<\/p>\n<p>Students created a few different faces, in different sizes, with black Sharpie pens. &nbsp;They coloured the faces in with a variety of waxed crayons. &nbsp;They chose their favourite piece to be included in our art piece.<\/p>\n<p>We were allowed to create a piece that is 18\u201d x 24\u201d so we used a canvas of that size. &nbsp;The grade one girls painted it with one hue of blue paint. &nbsp;They then used sponges to add layers of other tints\/shades of blue paint, as well as some white paint, to form the backdrop. &nbsp;On top of this the students\u2019 individual art-created faces were glued.<\/p>\n<p>The jury from the Burnaby Art Gallery will be coming to Rosser on Monday, March 4th to look at our school\u2019s four entries. &nbsp;They will take photos which will be a part of their digital display. &nbsp;They will also, hopefully, take the pieces back to be a part of their month-long display in their gallery. &nbsp;I will keep you informed of the process. &nbsp;In the meantime, please take a look at the finished work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2019\/02\/33AE998E-AE7F-492E-9A42-35D46149E177-e1550723228648.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2764\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2019\/02\/33AE998E-AE7F-492E-9A42-35D46149E177-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Burnaby Art Gallery hosts an art show (called Arts Alive) featuring works by Burnaby students. &nbsp;They alternate the years by secondary and elementary grades. &nbsp;This year it is the elementary schools\u2019 turn to participate. &nbsp;Teachers choose whether to participate, or not. &nbsp;Four classes at Rosser have opted into participating this year. &nbsp;Each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2019\/02\/20\/arts-alive-burnaby-art-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arts Alive &#8211; Burnaby Art Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}