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A Focus on art - We are now located in the I.C. Church Basement

Jason Hillesheim, art specialist

Art – The study of line, color, composition and form helps students develop fundamental artistic skills.  From sculpture to drawing and painting, art projects are taught at each grade level and art history and cultural arts are explored. Each year, DMCS partners with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Adventure Program to bring art to our school. Jason has been teaching art at DMCS since 2006.

The focus of study during during the school year:

Kindergarten - creating drawings and paintings, crayon engravings, tribal masks, 2-in-1 puppets, anything machines

Grade 1 - making chivalry shields, murals, pop-up books, and collographs

Grade 2 -  developing mosaics, scroll boxes, and vehicles for the annual spring car race, among other things

Grades 3 & 4 - expanding upon the basic programs with journeys into animation, map making, hieroglyphs, and wire sculpture (grade three) and watercolor landscapes, weavings, mandalas, and comic books (grade four)

Grades 5 & 6 - exploring and creating their own frescoes, relief prints, and embossings, among many other things. The sixth graders will close out their DMCS career by painting on canvas, creating an apple-head doll, building a model city, and designing and flying their own sled kites.