CRES Featured in District Student Art Exhibition - 2019

My Central Riverside art students continue to amaze me with their creativity and skills!

Each year, art teachers from every DCPS elementary school select outstanding student artwork to represent their school in the Annual Library Art Shows at various area branch libraries and the Best of Elementary Exhibit at the Main Library, downtown. This year, outstanding CRES student artwork, along with art representing other area schools, will be on display at the Murray Hill Library from March 22-April 24. 

Student artists will be recognized at a reception in their honor on Tuesday, April 16th @ 6PM at the Murray Hill Library located at 918 Edgewood Avenue South. 

Congratulations to six CRES student artists who's beautiful artwork is on display representing the Best of Central Riverside Elementary School!

Best of Elementary - Mya, 5th Grade, Watercolor

Layla, 5th grade, watercolor paint

Layla, 5th grade - Watercolor

Taleena, 3rd grade, multi-media

Vayda, 5th grade, watercolor

Leonard, 4th grade , Tempera & Oil Pastel

Yaseen, Kindergarten, collage & tempera

Art Field Trips Increases Critical-thinking Skills

And THIS is why I am so committed to booking Field trips to The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens for my art students!

"A large amount of the gain in critical-thinking skills stems from an increase in the number of observations that students made in their essays. Students who went on a tour became more observant, noticing and describing more details in an image. Being observant and paying attention to detail is an important and highly useful skill that students learn when they study and discuss works of art. Additional research is required to determine if the gains in critical thinking when analyzing a work of art would transfer into improved critical thinking about other, non-art-related subjects."

Learn more about this study at the following link:

https://www.educationnext.org/the-educational-value-of-field-trips/?fbclid=IwAR0g2oevr9uKFJ0PC2MRWBaahgI2IxvgUOEPq4p_6RyTGECldawsz0nHpbs