Florida Art Education Association Elementary Art Educator of the Year

 I'm so humbled to have been recognized by my statewide peers!

Let's get Ready for Duval Homeroom: Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio

Introducing Art Teacher, Mrs. Woodlief

 

Virtual Spring Arts - Student Artwork Created in Duval Homeroom

Alimacani Elementary, a school rich with traditions, had many adjustments to make this spring due to the COVID-19. 

Big plans for our Annual Spring Arts Event, founded by my good friend, retired art teacher, Michelle Corely, went by the wayside.  We absolutely had to find a way to carry on the tradition she established during her many years as art teacher at Alimacani of showcasing our students' artwork.

Instead of the Spring Arts Event, virtual slideshows for each grade level were created of student artwork created online in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio.  The recorded slideshows below are a sampling of work created by our amazing art students at Alimacani. Please, enjoy!

Kindergarten

Paper Plate Fish

Fish Bowl Drawings

                     1st Grade
                                          Paper Line Sculpture

Robot Drawings

Symmetrical Geometric Butterflies

                     
                    2nd Grade
                 Above & Below the Sea Seascapes

Flower Garden Paintings

3rd Grade

Life Under The Sea

Insect Collage 

                                                         

Cityscapes

                            

                                       Block & Bubble Lettering

4th Grade 

Fruit Bowl Still Lifes

Botanical Illustration

                           

5th Grade

Kitchen Still Lifes

Value Trees Landscape

                      
                          4th/5th
           The Getty Challenge:Recreate a Masterpiece 
                        

DUVAL HOMEROOM GALLERY OF FINE ART

Congratulations to these 5 Alimacani Artists who are featured in this district-wide Duval Homeroom Gallery of Art! This is a BIG honor as only 19 pieces are in this exhibit!  (FYI: our two 5th graders, Chris and Carla are Lavilla School of the Arts bound!)

To see their work in a virtual gallery setting, just follow this link:  https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/835025/duval-homeroom-gallery-of-fine-art

Chris Ayotte - 5th Grade 

Carla Negrette  - 5th grade

Chris Ayotte  - 5th Grade

 

Olivia Andry & Lily Houser - 4th grade

Lilah Colacurcio - 3rd Grade

                                                             

How DEEP (How much depth?) is your Cityscape?

Alimacani Students continue to learn virtually in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio!

This week, students are led by art teacher, Mrs. Woodlief in drawing a cityscape. In this recorded drawing lesson, students learn how to create depth in their art by overlapping to create a foreground, middle ground and background.

Why don't YOU watch the video so you can be artists like these 3rd grade students?

   

Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio: Let's Draw Geometric Butterflies!

Alimacani Students continue to learn virtually in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio. Primary level students are led by art teacher, Mrs. Woodlief and her puppet Arturo, as they instruct viewers, in a recorded art lesson, how to draw a symmetrical butterfly adding geometric shapes. Reflecting on lessons learned in math, students use circles. squares, ovals, triangles and rectangles to show their knowledge of math concepts such as symmetry - the same on both sides. Check out the video to see how it all happens!

                                                     

Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio: Michelangelo Upside-Down Drawing

In this art assignment, my intermediate students will crawl under the kitchen table, lie on their backs and make art just like Michelangelo when he painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel.