• Each year, we focus on the Visual Art foundations, explored through the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. We also learn about other cultures throughout the year with our artwork.  As the students are expressing their talents as developing artists, we are using a range of materials from crayons to oil pastels, markers to colored pencils, cut paper, mixed media, and even paint. The children will learn the proper ways to work with particular materials an artist may use. We recycle any leftover materials to show how valuable it is to reduce, reuse and recycle.

    Visual Art integrates across the curriculum, connecting many of our lessons to literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies.

    We do get a little messy sometimes in Art so please make sure your child dresses appropriately.

     

    For the 2022-2023 school year, I will be back in the Art Room teaching our students after teaching from a cart in their classrooms for the past two years.

     

  • Quick Draw with Google

    Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?  Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world's largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.

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  • Google Arts and Culture

    This is a Google website that explores various topics of art.  You can visit art museums and locations around the world. There are also some tools you can use to change pictures into works of art, matching your selfie with a famous piece of work, etc.

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  • Kidmons

    This website offers games using art.

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  • Art for Kids Hub

    This YouTube site has lots of videos featuring an artist dad who draws with his children.  He draws many different objects so you will always find something you would like to draw.

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Mrs. Angela Holt

I have been teaching Visual Arts at Sumner Elementary School since 2005. I grew up in a family of artists and was always encouraged to explore through all of the different areas of art. I attended UNCG twice, graduating in 1993 with a BA in Art History and again in 2005 with a BFA in Art Education. I have worked as an Arts Facilitator at ArtQuest and as an Arts and Crafts teacher for a private preschool.

I have been married for 28+ years to my husband Carlyle and we have a daughter, who graduated from UNC in 2021 and is attending post-grad work in the medical field.

My personal focus in art is a mixture of different mediums.  I create collages and mixed media work, where I make various types of trees using materials such as wire, cardboard, metal scraps, fabric, yarn, scrapbook and painted papers, and even colored pencil shavings. I also enjoy creating detailed ink drawings called Zentangles using patterns, as well as Neurographics using moving lines. I have exhibited my own artwork at the Hickory Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum at UNC-G, Green Hill Center for NC Art, the Irene Cullis Gallery at Greensboro College, the Maud Gatewood Studio Art Building at UNCG, and Irving Park Art and Frame.

I enjoy teaching your children and always encourage them to try their best. I want them to understand art is an expression, not a way of comparing yourself to someone else.

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." quote by Greg Anderson, American best-selling author and founder of the American Wellness Project (b.1964).