Lorraine Skelton, NM Art Teacher Elementary Art Portfolio 2013-2021 by Lorraine Skelton. Fine Art, New Mexico ESL and English Teacher

Navajo Elementary School Yearbook 2016-2017

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Students learned basic photography skills, layout, and Picaboo software.

NVE students took all photographs other than class photos.

NVE students did all layouts after learning how to use the Picaboo software.

March 2014: Gallup Arts Crawl, Gallup Christmas Show, and New Mexico State Fair

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Students showcase their creative talents in art walks and student art competitions displaying their paintings, drawings, and crafts throughout Gallup Arts Crawl, Gallup, New Mexico Christmas Student Art Show, New Mexico State Fair, and Southwest Indian Foundation Student Art Competition.

Gallup Arts Crawl: Animals and Birds in Watercolor, and Creating Space in Landscapes

Gallup Christmas Show: A Radial Design on Our Navajo Landscapes

New Mexico State Fair: A Community Found Art Project: Our Navajo Family Tree and Our Inner Self

Southwest Indian Foundation Student Art Competition: A Radial Design on Our Navajo Landscapes and Animals and Birds in Watercolor

The link to my LinkedIn account displays a few photos of those shows I did annually with my NVE students.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lorraine-skelton-artandenglishteacher_i-try-to-do-3-5-art-shows-displays-or-contests-activity-6454384606912352256-qCpI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

I also had them participate in the New Mexico State Fair Student Art Show and the Navajo Nation Fair Student Art Competitions. Several NVE students came home with cash and ribbon prizes.

Unit 4 is an example of how I often plan lessons by the quarter and will always try to align my Art lessons with other content standards being covered in their other classrooms. And the lessons are typically aligned with deadlines for Art shows and competitions.

April 2013: Beverly Blacksheep, Resident Artist Lesson

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NVE hosted our local artist, Beverly Blacksheep, in our classroom for a week.
NVE students used watercolors on watercolor paper to tell Navajo stories that they had learned in their Navajo Culture class.

Navajo Elementary School End of the Year Art Show 2015-2018

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Beginning 2015, my NVE students held an End of School Year Art Show, which included a talent show and local artisans displaying and selling their artwork. Jewelers, wood workers, painters, and weavers of my students' families and friends participated.
Students sang and danced modern works and Navajo traditional song and dance. We had a cake walk and other games following the students' performances. For 4 years, it was always a wonderful, memorable family night full of Art, music, dance and performance.

A Group Project: Our Navajo, New Mexico Home 2017

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All NVE students, grades K-5, each got a section of a photograph that I had taken of their home town, Navajo, New Mexico, and were asked to paint that section.
We had just completed lessons in mixing colors of the basic color wheel, creating tints and shades of colors, and creating graphic works of art using warm, cool complementary, and analogous color schemes. So expecting the students to match colors of their color photographs was actually making use of background knowledge and scaffolding prior lesson plans.
I made posters of the final 3' x 5' compilation to sale for the purpose of purchasing either digital cameras or other art supplies.

Cuba Elementary School 2020-2021

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I am a cross-curricular Art Teacher who attempts to connect art lessons to all of my Art students' other subjects. At CISD, I worked closely with the elementary teachers inquiring what my Art students were learning in each of their other subjects. I would create slide presentations to go along with these lessons using Davis Scholastic Art resources and Padlet.
The following are examples of those lessons in self-sufficient living, acquetias, plant life, ecosystems, and so much more.

Cuba Elementary School Street Banners--Grades 4-8 2021

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Students created designs for permanent highway street banners for Highway 550 going through their Cuba, New Mexico .
We first discussed what attractions their community and surrounding areas offered travellers passing through, and then they designed their banners using basic digital art software. Most were able to complete final copy-ready works, however if necessary I assisted by uploading their drawings and paintings into Adobe Illustrator.
The students observed how I went to the Village of Cuba board meetings requesting that they consider purchasing these banners. They also got to watch their town approve of the banners and pay for the production of the banners hence, learning the process of becoming a working artist.

Cuba Elementary School: Grades K-1 2020-2021

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More examples of students' art works.

Cuba Elementary School: Grades 2-3. 2020-2021

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All of the following art works are connected to the Art lessons in previous section.

Cuba Elementary School: Grades 4-5, 2020-2021

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Along with murals for our school district hotspots, our CISD students created these art works preparing for the permanent art installations around our large district.

Self Portrait Slideshow

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I created several slideshows for my elementary Art students to assist in explaining Art concepts and Art techniques. This is for any Self Portrait assignments.

Color Theory Slideshow

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A slideshow to demonstrate several color schemes.

Expressionism Slideshow

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Another sideshow to help my students understand an Art Style.

Plant Illustrations

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Science and Art often go together. Creating lessons to help my Art students with their Science lessons is one of several ways I can help our visual learners understand science concepts better while introducing my Art students to many careers in the sciences that ask for persons with Art backgrounds.

Drawing Examples

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I would use this slideshow for examples of Value, Texture, and Space in Pencil.

Pencil Landscapes

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I use this slideshow to demonstrate Landscapes, Space, Line, Value, and Texture using only Pencil. Other Visual Art concepts can be introduced as well.

Night Sky

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My elementary Art students typically will study a bit of astronomy in their Science lessons and our local Native American stories behind their culture. I enjoy sharing beautiful artwork that has been done literally over the centuries by indigenous artists and modern artists alike describing narratives of their spiritual beliefs, stories of Creation, and astronomical phenomena across cultures and continents.