2014-2015 CASA (Cultural After School Adventures) with 2nd graders at PS 242

ANIMALS AT THE MUSEUM CASA (Cultural After School Adventures) with PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky Early Childhood School Program by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College

The Cultural After School Adventures (CASA) program, provided by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College, is made possible through the generosity of New York City Council Member Peter Koo, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, 405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367 718.997.4747 gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu www.gtmuseum.org

PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky Early Childhood School CASA Students LINA AHN ANAHI ALVARADO DAVID ALTAMIRANO YULE BAE LUNA BAE KAWAII CHEN FAITH CHOI STEFANIE CHUNG TIFFANY CHUNG CHELSEY COBOS ELIAS CRUZ LEIA EULAU GIANLUCA FLUMIANI ASHLEY HOYOS WILLIAM HUA RACHEL JIANG EDDY KANG EVAN KANG JUDY KIM GEMMA KNOWD

DANIEL LEE RICHARD LEE, JR. SHINBEE LEE HUIFEN LI VIAN LIAN HARMONY LIN WEN LIN AVERY LIU JUDY NAMKOONG KIMBERLY RAUDA LAKSHAN SARAVANAN CATHERINE WANG MIKE XIE JAYDEN YUAN YUICHIRO ZHANG ASHER ZHAO ENDY ZHAO JUSTIN (ZHENG YAO) ZHOU RYAN ZHENG

Patricia Costa, Principal, PS 242 Aurora Garcia-Tunon, Vice Principal, PS 242 Brita Helgesen, Program Developer & Teaching Artist Mary Giancoli, Teaching Artist Fabiola Postrel, PS 242 Teaching Assistant Marisol Santos, PS 242 Teaching Assistant

Introduction Brita Helgesen, teaching artist The 2014-2015 Cultural After School Art program is an arts education class designed for forty second-graders at PS 242 Leonard P. Stavisky early childhood school. During this program, students engaged with art objects from the Godwin-Ternabch Museum and other collections, studied cultures ancient to present day, learned elements of art through different media and styles, and most importanly explored creativity and self-expression.

Each lesson was a challenge that students approached each week with eager and excited curiosity. From watercolor and ink paintings, to drawings, collage and sculpture, and even printmaking and photography, each student partcipated in open-ended problem-solving and creative investigations.

It was a delight to see the developments in each individual student over the six month program. With each class, minds expanded, focus sharpened, and hands worked more deftly as the students engaged in discussion and developed modes of expression and artmaking skills. And each week, each individual took ownership over their final product, knowing that they will be displayed in their own “Animals in the Museum” exhibition at the end of the program!

I hope the students, their families and teachers, and the greater community enjoy the work on display in the Museum, and can delight in the small selection of works reproduced in this catalogue as much as I enjoyed working with the second graders!

Portraits The CASA progam began with an exploration of identity through portraiture. Students learned about different portrait styles, and discussed the ways in which portraits convey messages about their subject. After looking at classical and modern portraits, students made their own portraits and embellished them with patterns and backgrounds.

Ashley Hoyos

Lakshan Saravanan

Judy Namkoong

Kawaii Chen

Kimberly Rauda

Jayden Yuan

Mike Xie

Shinbee Lee

Matisse Cutouts Students learned about the Modern artist Henri Matisse, who created artwork later in his life by making paper cutouts. After reading a story about Henri Matisse, students made their own Matisse inspired cutout compositions.

Asher Zhao

Eddy Kang

Endy Zhao

Gianluca Flumiani

Daniel Lee

Avery Liu

Greek vases Students were introduced to ancient Greece and the history and purpose of the shapes and designs in ancient Greek pottery. Students then created their own vase shape and decorated it with registers of their own geometric pattern.

Mike Xie

Luna Bae

Vian Lian

Lucas Lin

Judy Namkoong

Kimberly Rauda

Gianluca Flumiani

Jayden Yuan

Egyptian Animals Students were introduced to the art of the ancient Egyptians, its visual elements and style, including the use of animal symbolism and even hieroglyphs. Students created their own Egyptian style animal and completed their compositions by writing their names in hieroglyphs.

Tiffany Chung

Vian Lian

Mike Xie

Richard Lee, Jr.

Huifen Li

Evan Kang

Ashley Hoyos

Lina Ahn

Stefanie Chung

Harmony Lin

Chinese New Year Dragons Students explored meaning and symbolism of dragons in Chinese mythology and art, including depictions of Chinese imperial dragons and their use in traditional New Years celebrations. The students loved practicing collaging technique and scissor skills to make their own New Years dragons.

Harmony Lin

Catharine Wang

Avery Liu

Evan Kang

Rachel Jiang

Lakshan Saravanan

Wen Lin

Huifen Li

Jungle Landscapes Looking at the work of French artist Henri Rousseau, students learned about perspective including foreground, middle-ground and background. Inspired by the artist’s imaginative and wild jungle scenes, students explored these elements of perspective in their own jungle compositions.

Daniel Lee

Elias Cruz

Jayden Yuan

Eddy Kang

Lina Ahn

Leia Eulau

Judy Kim

Yuichiro Zhang

Korean Minhwa Paintings This lesson started with listening to Korean folk tales and looking at Minhwa (literally painting of the people) art. With ink and watercolor, the students created their own paintings based on the Korean folk art and tales.

Yule Bae

Ashley Hoyos

Catharine Wang

Daniel Lee

Vian Lian

Judy Kim

Lina Ahn

Mike Xie

Luna Bae

Rachel Jiang

Richard Lee, Jr.

Shinbee Lee

Stefanie Chung

Tiffany Chung

Elias Cruz

Wen Lin

Anahi Alvarado

Batik Owls Students learned about the Batik dying process used in many cultures including Indonesia and Africa. By drawing their own owls with crayons, they then replicated the wax resist batik technique by crumpling and dying their compositions with paint.

William Hua

Gemma Knowd

Faith Choi

Evan Kang

Leia Eulau

Rachel Jiang

Lakshan Saravanan

Tiffany Chung

Jayden Yuan

Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou

African Masks Students learned about the function of masks in many African cultures including Baule, Biombo, Dan, Goma, Kota, Lulua, Pende and Teke. Looking at mask examples from each of these cultures, students created their own masks with geometric forms and patterns.

Anahi Alvarado

Leia Eulau

Yuichiro Zhang

Yule Bae

Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou

Kimberly Rauda

Huifen Li

Chelsey Cobos

William Hua

Ryan Zheng

Endy Zhao

Sunprints Students got to go out-of-doors in this lesson on using the power of the sun to create artistic prints. Working with different objects including doilies, leaves, stars, rocks, and even dinosaur stickers, students created shadows on the paper and made these fun compositions.

Gianluca Flumiani

Gemma Knowd

Kimberly Rauda

Luna Bae

Kawaii Chen

Totems In this collaborative project, students learned about the function of totems and animal representations in various cultures. Listening to totem pole tales, each chose an animal representative of themselves and created an individual totem figure for the class totem pole.

Ryan Zheng

Judy Namkoong Avery Liu

Lucas Lin Chelsey Cobos

Anahi Alvarado

Justin (Zheng Yao) Zhou

Mike Xie

David Altamirano

Korean Crowns In this final lesson, students learned about royal Korean crowns. Using paper quilling and other decorative techniques, each made their own crown. The last class was celebrated by completing the crowns and jumping in front of the camera to capture these kings and queens of CASA.