2012-2013
WRAP-UP
“Art@SMOS is a program of St. Margaret of Scotland Parish School that mobilizes
the vibrant resources of school and Shaw neighborhood communities’ to fill a need.
This parent-led, volunteer/faculty collaboration increases art exposure for K – 8th
grade students at St. Margaret of Scotland School in lieu of dedicated art faculty.”
~ From SNIA Helping Hands Grant application,
deadline June 1, 2013
“THERE IS A DRAGON IN EACH OF US .
It waits within consciousness like a dragon
sleeping beneath the surface of a pool.
A whispered prayer, a cry, a breeze
can rouse it from the depths.
The dragon comes in dreams;
it comes in the waking day.”
~ Lawrence Yap, American Dragons
IN THE END…
Library display, May 2013: 4th Grade Shadow Boxes
WHAT IS
ART@SMOS?
Parent-led Visual Arts program for K – 8th
* volunteer/faculty collaboration *
* Community-building, community-dependent, community-responsive *
Innovative *
growing *
Creative *
Skills-building
* REACHING…inward, outward, upward *
…IT’S THE BEGINNING THAT COUNTS…
Historic Shaw Art Fair, October 2012: 39 entries representing all grades, PreK-8
EVERY SMOS CHILD REACHED THROUGH
PEACE CRANE PROJECT
OVER 40
VOLUNTEERS MADE THIS HAPPEN…
* 17 classroom teachers in 9 homerooms
* 6 mount & hang regulars + special teams
* Grant specialists, internet trollers, library cataloguers,
gallery curators, brochure designer, field trip
researchers, faculty/staff mentors/helpers,
materials donors, artists, educators, guest
speakers, coordinator, photographers,
advocates… THE LIST GOES ON …
Clockwise from above: Hanging art at
Shaw; teaching crane making; telling the
story of the Peace Crane; Andy
Goldsworthy-inspired sculpture…on a
tree branch!
VOLUNTEERS MAKE ART@SMOS HAPPEN…
* 17 classroom teachers in 9 homerooms
* 6 mount & hang regulars + special teams
* Grant specialists, internet trollers, library cataloguers,
gallery curators, brochure designer, field trip
researchers, faculty/staff mentors/helpers,
materials donors, artists, educators, guest
speakers, coordinator, photographers,
advocates… HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Clockwise from above: Hanging art at
Shaw; teaching crane making; telling the
story of the Peace Crane; Andy
Goldsworthy-inspired sculpture…on a
tree branch!
DRAGONS WILL CONSTANTLY AMAZE YOU…
…& OUR STUDENTS ARE AMAZING!!!
A LOOK AT ART@SMOS CLASSROOM WORK, K-4TH
“My personal best was
paper cranes because I like
it so much and I made it
with my buddy.”
“Bugs was my personal
best because we got to rip
paper & I’m the best person
at ripping paper.”
“Colored pencils of stained
glass was my favorite
because my family is holy
and this is very holy.”
“Mondrian was my least
favorite because it didn’t
really make any sense.”
“My favorite was stained glass
window with pencils because
we went up the stairs to be
higher up in church.”
“Portfolio was my personal
best because I had to scribble
and make it explode. There’s a
little thing that exploded.”
“My least favorite was Starry
Night because I tried to make
these perfect circles but I didn’t
do it well & tried to mix colors but
it didn’t really work.”
Self-portraits,
Kindergarten
MORE KINDERGARTEN
Mount & Hang teams regularly adorned school walls with
every participating student’s work & in the cafeteria Gallery
1ST GRADE… ART OF STAINED GLASS FIELD TRIP & MARKER ART
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FR. O’TOOLE, ARTIST/HISTORIAN & KATHLEEN FISCHER OF EMIL FREI
STAINED GLASS STUDIOS
1st grade stained glass
inspired art in marker
1ST GRADE
“My favorite
was Andy
Goldsworthy. It
just put this
thing, this
energy inside
me and it went
everywhere
inside my body!
I don’t how that
happened…”
“I wish we made masks
you could wear.”
“I never knew masks
could be flat on paper!”
“I never drew
something like
overlapping
leaves before. I
never thought to
draw two things
touching;
I always drew
them right next to
each other.”
2ND GRADE… COMPLEMENTING THE AWESOME ART TEACHING
OF FACULTY MRS. HOFFMAN
“Anything else about your year in art? Not really. I noticed you were
the only one to use Chinese characters in your Miro. Why? Oh, my
sister and I were looking on the internet and found them. Did
you copy them and bring them in? Yes. (Pause). They all mean
something… love, joy, and numbers…that one means “8” for
my age, and “2005,” the year I was born…”
3RD GRADE (MRS. FINNEGAN’S CLASS)
Self-portraits (paint, tissue paper),
Hung above west stairwell to 2nd
floor, old building
MORE 3RD
“Well, ok,
you can take
a picture.
But I’LL hold
it. You have
to be very
careful with
it; it’s
fragile.”
4TH GRADE:
ALWAYS OFF-THE PAGE & OUTSTANDING
• Practiced curriculum
integration…With
focus on Missouri
artists ahead of 4th
grade trip to
Jefferson City capitol
with murals
• Enhanced Open
House “Raising the
standards” wall with
ink church drawings
• Replicated the
Missouri map,
student-by-student,
inspired by Annie’s
aunt-artist
ALL-SCHOOL YOUTH ART MONTH CELEBRATION:
PEACE CRANES
“I will write
peace on
your wings
and you
will fly all
over the
world.”
~ Sadako
Sasaki,
Age 12
Special thank you to Tina Bailey & Mary
Beth Bussen who led us through this
adventure!
2012-13 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• New tools… Portfolios,
of-Year Portfolio Reviews
• More space: a bigger cabinet
(that we’ve outgrown…)
• Fewer general meetings 
frequent, focused subcommittee meetings
Grants and YAM planning cmtes)
End -
more
(e.g. grade level planning meetings,
• 100% increase in showing at Historic Shaw Art Fair!
• New school-wide event: Youth Art Month’s Peace Cranes Project
involved all students…to “wows” & “whoas”
• Fundraising for Art Coordinator underway! Will submit 1st grant by
June 1st + contest submission by May 31 st (Jen Kav & 5th grade), with
supportive match from school by 2014-15
• Other????
YOU are the change we wish to see…it is happening…
THANK YOU so very much!!!!
JOIN ART@SMOS TODAY!
Art@SMOS needs volunteers now who can:
___Share their appreciation & enthusiasm
for visual art with students & community!
___Help display & photograph
student artwork (very flexible!)
___Team-teach/assist with art lessons –
art or teaching backgrd. helpful
___Assist with special school art events
___Grant writing/Fundraising for visual arts
For more info:
art@smos-school.org
YOUR TURN,
MAMA & PAPA DRAGONS………..
•What did we do well?
•How can we improve?
•Do it again next year???