Welcome to the Daniel Zizumbo Elementary Charter School

Contour Line Wire Sculpture - 6th Grade


Welcome!



Please take a moment to look at some of the wonderful work our students have created.

Just click  the tabs on the right to have a look.

Also.....
I will be using the homepage to present updates on my after school "thinking big" painting program. We are currently working on five large (4'x6') canvases as part of an effort to beautify our school. Stay tuned!

Each painting starts with a theme or big idea. The students then work to refine their ideas and begin designing the process needed to create the work.

The painting below followed the theme of what it means to be heroic. The students eventually decided on painting a portrait of Cesar Chavez to exemplify that theme. More information can be found at www.chavezfoundation.org.

Work above- Students explored the idea of where people meet. The painting originally started off as a more straight forward representation of a meeting space and eventually became more abstracted as the idea developed.

Work below- The theme question was – where do we go from here? “21^st Century Man” was the student response. Students looked at art created over fifty years ago that depicted our time now. Did you know we are all supposed to be driving flying cars by now?  Their way of having fun with some of those ideas was to have our cyborg friend rising from behind a still life of fruit.

Main idea / guiding question – How does combining a familiar or iconic image into in an “issue” related work change things? Student selected a clipping from a newspaper that showed how immigration policy can affect people’s lives in a profound way. The original photo was of a mother and daughter being separated due to deportation.  The painting, “perhaps a familiar face would help”, seeks to highlight some of the questions surrounding issues we face today rather than present an answer.