Honored!

I am thrilled and honored to be blogged about on Jon Contino's website! The kids loved studying him in school. They did a fantastic job creating the letters to their name for a project just like Jon! I also talked to my kids about how hard work can really get you places! See the my original blog post [here] and Jon Contino's blog post [here].

Also, what a wonderful way to close out this blog! I an no longer working at Jefferson Middle School in Washington DC , where U taught for the last two years. This year I am moving on to a new school, still in DC, called Langley Elementary school. I am more than excited to be working with a younger age group again. However, I am yet again faced with very little budget for art supplies. Please feel free to donate to my cause at Donors Choose. Anything would help!
 
I also invite you to come and join my new blog for Langley Elementary School, its called Northeast City Art.

Jon Contino Artist Study

This past Friday the 6th and 7th grade students and I watched a short video of the typography artist Jon Contino. I wanted to show the students his work because not only do I think that it is creative and fun, but his video shows how hard he worked to get where he is today. The students first watched this inspiring video of Jon talking about his art work and then wrote three words to describe Jon. The kids came up with fun, hard working, determined, caring, and cool. After this, the students used Jon's lettering as a guide to influence their own hand letter in class. The students created their names, first using pencil, and then tracing over it in ink. The results are awesome!

Jon lives in Brooklyn currently and works constantly. He loves to design new lettering styles and has had some exicitng clients recently. See his portfolio [here]

I contacted Jon, via emailed, last week and told him that we would be studying his art form in my middle school classroom. He was thrilled and excited to hear about this. So, this post is for him.