CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Honor our community’s budding artists and celebrate with their families at the members’ opening reception, 5-7pm, May 4 hosted by Art At Your Fingertips, Peninsula , Palos Verdes and Rancho del Mar High Schools.

Art At Your Fingertips

More than one million art projects and counting!

While most school districts are proposing total elimination of the arts, more than 7,000 Peninsula elementary students continue to receive art education from the Palos Verdes Art Center every year!

Now in its 37th year Art At Your Fingertips, the Art Center’s visual arts outreach program, brings standards based education to our local schools. Preparing Peninsula children for success! Each of the five Art At Your Fingertips projects combines art techniques, art history and aesthetics in lessons that meet California visual arts standards for all elementary grade levels.

The five projects exhibited, taught by AAFY’s 400 volunteer docents, include:

Mexican Tinwork Tiles

Building on a 400 year tradition of tin working, students created brilliantly colored metal tiles in the style of traditional Mexican folk art. Students learned metal tooling techniques as they explored the rich art and culture of Mexico. Project created by Heather Hovard

Larger Than Life

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) and her larger-than-life-sized paintings of flowers were the inspiration for this printmaking project. By transferring a contour line drawing onto a Syrofoam(trade mark sign) plate, students made a monoprint of a flower using tempera paint on black paper. Project created by Lee-Jean Lin

Dappled Sunlight

This acrylic landscape painting project employs the pointillism technique made famous by Post-Impressionist painter George Seurat (French, 1859-1891). Using an application of colored dots, students created the effect of sunlight diffused through tree branches. Project Created by Rebecca Jarus

Imagining Magritte

Surrealist Rene Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) and his painting The Listening Room are the inspiration for this mixed-media project. Students’ preconceived notions of perception and reality were challenged while they learn an important lesson in one-point perspective. Project Created by Paula Irish

Peninsula en Plein Air

Since the late-nineteenth century, California has been a Mecca for artists inspired by the French Impressionists to paint out of doors or en plein air. Students were introduced to this ongoing tradition while they created their very own acrylic painting of the Palos Verdes Peninsula’s picturesque coastline. Project Created by Annemarie Wargin

PARTNERS IN ART

Through Palos Verdes Art Center’s Partners in Art Program, sixth graders tour our exhibitions, create a work of art with a visiting artist, and display their pieces in our student art show, May 4-27, 2012.

This year’s projects designed by teaching artist Robin Bott include:

Fusion Illusion

Inspired by the exhibition Off the Wall, students collaged origami paper onto a glass plate to create the illusion of fused art glass.

Every House Has a Story

Inspired by the exhibition Installations, students used text and images to create a house-shaped environment that tells their unique story.

Palimpsets

Inspired by the exhibition 3 Artists/3 Perspectives, students used palimpsests of preceding layers to create a mixed-media collage incorporating mythological themes.

HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION

The Best of High School Art Exhibition features art work from Peninsula High School, Palos Verdes High School and Rancho del Mar High School. The best of the best in ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and glass will be exhibited and awards presented.

Docent led tours are available by calling Education Director Gail Phinney at 310-542-2479.