I’m happy to announce that the “Art Star” award

for March goes to Melany B. (Rm. 313). Please

assist me in congratulating Melany for all the hard

work, creativity, and independence that she has

shown over the past month. Great Job!!

Melany’s “Guided Drawings” and “Themed

Drawing” can be seen at right.

Additional “Guided/Themed Drawings” can be

seen on Page 3 of this issue of The Andersonian.

And the “Art Star” of

the Month is...

A N D E R S O N

C E N T E R F O R

A U T I S M

A R T

D E PA R T M E N T

The Andersonian Art News from Around the School and

Around the World…

M A R C H 2 0 1 5

V O L U M E 6 ~ I S S U E 5 6

Ulster County Savings Bank Art Show

I wanted to send a “Thank You” to all of those who helped out the Art Program over the

past month with art supplies and materials, including Kathleen M. (Dir. Of Program Services),

Kendal W. (Rm. 119), Christine C. (Rm. 119), and Kathi K. (Rm. 123).

To all of you (and those of you that I may have missed)... I say, “Thank You!!”

As I write, plans are underway for another joint art show

with Expressive Outcomes (Anderson's adult art pro-

gram) and the AEC’s Children’s Art Program. It will

be held at the Red Hook (NY) branch of the Ulster

County Savings Bank and is set to run for the entire

month of April. An opening reception has been planned

(April 22nd 5-7pm) to allow the artists and community

members to mingle and admire all of the amazing art.

I will pass on the details as they are worked out. Please

check for further information via your e-mail and next

month’s edition of The Andersonian.

Thank You

1-2:

Guided

Drawings

and 3:

Themed

Drawing.

Spring!!!Spring!!!

1

2

3

Photograph of 2014 UCB show.

Valentine’s Collages (Lft. To Rt.): “Roses” -

Aaron G. (Rm. 310); “Candy Hearts” -

Ocean P. (Rm. 310); “Valentine’s Candy” -

Michael R. (Rm. 119).

P A G E 2

The Andersonian

H A V E I N F O

T O S H A R E ?

I F Y O U H A V E A N Y A R T

N E W S T H A T Y O U W A N T

T O A D D T O N E X T

M O N T H ’ S A N D E R S O N I -

A N P L E A S E L E T M E

K N O W ( X 1 5 6 9 ) . ~

N A T H A N ( R M . 4 1 6 ) .

American Flag Sculptures In honor of President’s Day, students created rustic looking American Flag Sculptures

out of recycled/upcycled objects (As seen below).

Materials: Cardboard, Tissue Paper, Glue/Water, Tempera Paint (Red, White, Blue),

Newspaper, Tagboard.

Techniques: Stamping, Decoupage, Assemblage.

Last month, students created a few Valen-

tine’s Day images to be used as possible

future Noteworthy Card designs.

Three Hearts — Students learned how to

make a decorative deckled edge on paper,

in addition to practicing other collage tech-

niques (example #1).

Valentine’s Card Designs 1. Andre

W. (Rm.

308); 2.

Vincent G.

(Rm. 120);

3. and John

R. (Rm.

306).

1

2

Love Birds — Stu-

dents concentrated

on layering color,

tracing/cutting and

collage (example #3).

Jesse B. (Rm. 118) A’Vohn H. (Rm. 312)

LOVELOVE

3 (example #2).

Double Hearts — Students used collage techniques,

tracing/cutting and handwriting to create this design

Valentine’s Collages (Lft. To Rt.): “Roses” -

Aaron G. (Rm. 310); “Candy Hearts” -

Ocean P. (Rm. 310); “Valentine’s Candy” -

Michael R. (Rm. 119).

P A G E 3

The Andersonian

H A V E I N F O

T O S H A R E ?

I F Y O U H A V E A N Y A R T

N E W S T H A T Y O U W A N T

T O A D D T O N E X T

M O N T H ’ S A N D E R S O N I -

A N P L E A S E L E T M E

K N O W ( X 1 5 6 9 ) . ~

N A T H A N ( R M . 4 1 6 ) .

Geometric Collage Students also created Geometric Collages using recycled paper. The directions were to

fit together the geometric shapes (squares and rectangles), like a puzzle, without over-

lapping the pieces. The resulting artwork has a quilt-like appearance (see pictures below).

Artist Birthdays for March Mar. 2 – Theodor Seuss Geisel AKA “Dr. Seuss” (1904)

Mar. 6 - Michelangelo (1475)

Mar. 19 – Charles M. Russell (1864)

Mar. 30 – Francisco de Goya (1746) & Vincent van Gogh (1853)

Guided

Drawings

Continued

Many classes have been practicing their drawing skills over the last few months, through a

series of projects, including creating drawings following verbal cues only (ex. “Draw three

triangles”), by modeling/copying given examples (as seen above), and by creating a draw-

ing only given theme/subject (ex. “Draw a tree”).

Some St. Patrick’s Day themed guided drawings. (lft-rt.) A’vohn

H. (Rm. 312), Melany B. (Rm. 313), and John G. (Rm. 313).

John R.

(Rm. 306) Darien R.

(Rm. 119)

Johnny R.

(Rm. 306)

Jessica C.

(Rm. 119)