WEEK 4 MAY 29-31
Share An Artist You Love
Prompt: Memorial
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For the final 3 days of May share a link to artist you love and create a work inspired by them in response to the final prompt.  Maybe you will share yourself as artist!  Feel free to sum up this month's challenge with works you've created put together in a special slideshow, animation etc.  Can't wait to see who you share and what you've created.  It's been a blast being your guide through May.  It's almost summer!!!  Enjoy some family and friend time.  

Ciao,  
Jeanne @bellafiore3  http://phsvisualartdept.weebly.com

Your challenge is to respond to the prompt and be inspired by the artists. 

• Use whatever media you wish to explore and have fun.
• Consider trying the weekly media of the artists listed.  
• Choose to develop multiple pieces in response to the weekly prompt
  • OR....
• Work on the same piece over the entire week adding details each day as you relate to the daily artist link.
• Artist links will be shared daily with a bit more detail and questioning related to the Prompt for the week. 

Photography is the featured medium this week, but a common theme amongst this week's artists is how they really stretch this medium pushing the boundaries into other areas such as installation, printmaking and more.  Photography is my own preferred art medium and many of the artists I'm sharing with you are the ones who inspired my re-awakening to my artist self.  I love the work they do and in 

Week 4:  May 22 - 28 
Photography
PROMPT:  ending/beginning

May 22 Akinori Goto
May 23 Terry Kurgan
May 24 Jamie Heiden
May 25 Bonny Lhotka
May 26 Binh Danh
May 27 Alice Cazenave
May 28 Merve Ozaslan

Your challenge is to respond to the prompt and be inspired by the artists. 

• Use whatever media you wish to explore and have fun.
• Consider trying the weekly media of the artists listed.  
• Choose to develop multiple pieces in response to the weekly prompt
  • OR....
• Work on the same piece over the entire week adding details each day as you relate to the daily artist link.
• Artist links will be shared daily with a bit more detail and questioning related to the Prompt for the week. 

Time-Based Media artists are featured this week.  I think I love them most of all because they make art that can be sculpted, felted, drawn, painted, installed, photographed and more.  They are also story tellers creating works that evolve over time, often with poignancy, sense of humor and cleverness.  Characters develop while inhabiting the  the worlds created by the artists through their sets and installations.  

The prompt is a good one too, as evolving and revolving come to mind when I think of time as an element of art.  As always feel free to riff off these words and go further, deeper, if revolve becomes revolution That's Great!! I love language too and so word-play could inform your work further this week.  

Week 3:  May 15 - 21 
Time Based Media
PROMPT:  evolve/revolve

May 15 Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roel
May 16 Ryan Larkin
May 17 Martine Chartrand
May 18 Ann Hamilton
May 19 Semiconductor
May 20 William Kentridge
May 21 The Brothers Quay

Your challenge is to respond to the prompt and be inspired by the artists. 

• Use whatever media you wish to explore and have fun.
• Consider trying the weekly media of the artists listed.  
• Choose to develop multiple pieces in response to the weekly prompt
  • OR....
• Work on the same piece over the entire week adding details each day as you relate to the daily artist link.
• Artist links will be shared daily with a bit more detail and questioning related to the Prompt for the week. 

Hoping you had a blast with your daily dose of fiber last week.  This week's featured artists are sculptors or installation artists.  They all have inspired me in some way.  One, Mary Nohl was reputed to be a witch in local Milwaukee lore.  She wasn't of course, but I remember when I was in high school it was very common to dare each other to go to her secluded and slightly spooky yard to view the sculptures that inhabited the place.  Little did I know some day I'd be an art teacher taking students on tours of the same place!

I hope you find inspiration too, with this week's Prompt as it can certainly be interpreted literally, but like last week look it up in the dictionary and explore all the other meanings. 

Week 2:  May 8 - 14
Installation and Sculpture
PROMPT:  mother, mothering

May 8 Louise Bourgeois
May 9 Susan Cutts
May 10 Chiharu Shiota
May 11 Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger
May 12 Mary Nohl
May 13 Courtney Mattison
May 14 Vally Nomidou

Your challenge is to respond to the prompt and be inspired by the artists. 

• Use whatever media you wish to explore and have fun.
• Consider trying the weekly media of the artists listed.  
• Choose to develop multiple pieces in response to the weekly prompt
  • OR....
• Work on the same piece over the entire week adding details each day as you relate to the daily artist link.
• Artist links will be shared daily with a bit more detail and questioning related to the Prompt for the week. 

"Busy" seems to be the best word to describe May.  School is winding down, gardens are coming into bloom, spring art celebrations abound and artist educators try to find time to make their own art.  That's right finding more time in this hectic month is your challenge.  Participate in the #k12artchallenge and I guarantee you'll have a blast.   The #k12artchallenge was founded by Arlene Shelton of Texas in collaboration with the #k12artchat. This month I'm hosting the Meet the Masters May challenge through my Twitter ID @bellafiore3.

The theme of the challenge is to introduce you to artists working in inspiring ways with their chosen media.  Each week there is one prompt and 7 artists whose work falls into the featured media. 

Your challenge is to respond to the prompt and be inspired by the artists. 

• Use whatever media you wish to explore and have fun.
• Consider trying the weekly media of the artists listed.  
• Choose to develop multiple pieces in response to the weekly prompt
  • OR....
• Work on the same piece over the entire week adding details each day as you relate to the daily artist link.
• Artist links will be shared daily with a bit more detail and questioning related to the Prompt for the week. 

Week 1 is all about Fiber Artists.  The prompt is: Bloom/Blossom
Feel free to expand on the meaning and check out a dictionary to see all the interpretations and definitions of the words. 

The featured artists for week 1 are: 

May 1  Jaana Mattson
May 2 Caryl Gaubatz
May 3  Margaret and Christine Wertheim
May 4  Mandy Pattullo
May 5  Sara Lechner  
May 6 Makiko Wakisaka 
May 7 Raija Jokinen