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5th grade religious doorways and windows

12/19/2014

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To explore religions of the world through art, the 5th grade students looked at and discussed images of doorways and windows of different religious and spiritual places of worship.  We looked at images of churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, etc etc. 

For this project, students selected a type of religious architecture to draw inspiration from.  After studying images, the students created their own multi-layered decorative drawing inspired by the architecture of that religion.


It is difficult to see in these pictures, (in fact, these pictures do not even begin to do the amazingness of this project justice) but the students built a sort of relief sculpture for this project.  Their drawings are all on three layers of paper, with parts cut out so that you can see down into the layers.  Each layer is held up by foam mounting dots.  Doing this really created an extra dimension (literally, no pun intended) of interest.



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The end result of this project really blew my mind.  The amount of pride that I felt as a teacher was above and beyond what I have experienced before. These students worked SO hard for many, many weeks to get these finished.  I saw some pour their heart and soul into the project.  I am very proud!
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Gary link
1/14/2015 12:29:18 am

Wow. Those kids are so lucky to have you as their art teacher!

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Leaaa
1/14/2015 06:06:38 pm

5th graders are so intelligent. I love this project

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Ruth Monaghan
1/17/2015 01:16:02 am

incredible

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Ann
7/29/2016 10:58:02 pm

Christianity reflected here???

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Annie
8/26/2016 07:14:46 am

We looked at ARCHITECTURE from all of the major world religions. Students selected the religion that they liked the architecture the most and created an image inspired by that.

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kat corrigan link
8/28/2017 10:35:07 am

Annie! Did you present this at the NAEA Convention in New York last March?! I've been looking for my notes on this project because i want to do it and was searching for you! You had a simple pattern explainging the process as I recall- any chance of you sending me that? Please?
Looks absolutely awesome! And our school theme this year is Sanctuary!
Thank you!
Kat COrrigan

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Annie
9/2/2017 10:27:15 am

Yes! That was me.
If you can send an email to me at amonaghan@carolinaday.org I can send you some information!

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Vicki Stone
6/19/2018 01:24:51 am

I don't understand how you got such deep projections. were there dowels of some kind projecting pieces about an inch forward? did you use foam? thanks. amazing pieces

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