Prepping for the Art Show

Thanks for joining me here at The Art Spot! It's been a busy few weeks for myself and Mr. Leonard (the other Elementary Art teacher in Grandville) as we prep for the 1st Annual Grandville Elementary Art Show!  Planning for the Art Show began way back at the beginning of the school year, and so I can't believe the show is almost  here! Throughout the entire year we've been choosing artwork from each project our students complete and stashing it away for the show.

Once our location and dates were secured, our next challenge was how we were going to display all of our artwork.  I found a great tutorial on how to build rolling display panels from an Art blog called Deep Space Sparkle.  (you can find the post here).

With help from a Grandville Education Foundation grant, Nick and I were able to purchase all of our materials, and we built 8 two-door panels in about two days.

Rolling Display Panel made out of hinged doors.

Next on the to-do list was creating a flyer to hand out to students announcing the show and all of it's details.  Nick made the flyer and created a great circular logo design.

We thought it would be nice to use the logo in other areas of advertising for the show.  I made us both two t-shirts with the logo design to wear for each night of the show using iron-on transfers.

Next came all of the artwork labeling.  Each piece of artwork needed to have a name tag attached to it for the show.  We also included some additional info on the tags to explain a bit more about the artist and the artwork.  This is what the tags looked like.

 

To help organize the show, we color coded the name labels according to school.  Each school was assigned a different color to help students and their families find their artwork.  This is the sign that I made that explained the colors. 

I also made a sign for the entrance of the Art Show, but you'll have to wait to see that in the next post! Come back soon to see pics from the Show nights!

- Miss O'Donnell