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Stations of the Cross

3/29/2024

During Holy Week, St. Peter Catholic School participates in an Outdoor Stations of the Cross, using the artwork of 8th graders from earlier in the school year. The video below shows the ceremony from Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Below the video, each station's artwork is posted for you to examine in more detail. For more on the method used to create the art, please click here.

Jules Bowling

Abby Flowers

Nick Coggins

Carter Davenport

Thomas Stroud

Marshall Wingfield

Brooke Owens

Raffy Balanay

Valdemar Garcia-Nava

Victoria Castillo

Alicia Baugartner

Nathan Wright

Stelling Harris

Claire McDonald

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Personalized Cross Images and Sea Animal Sculptures

3/20/2024

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Seventh grade Art Tech students have recently been creating their own versions of the San Damiano Cross, a historically important crucifix painting from 12th century Italy. Students worked with pencil and ink to draw Jesus on the shape of the San Damiano cross. People, things, and places for which students are grateful appear within the cross and around Jesus. Students colored and edited photos of their drawings with the Sketchbook app on their iPads.

Fifth grade art students have been making relief sculptures of sea animals. Students used the grid method to draw from photos of aquatic animals. They transferred their drawings to Styrofoam sheets which they cut out with saws. The form of each animal was built with paper and tape. Paper mache and glitter glue were used to create the skin.

Athena Workman

Abigal Harris

Abby Alford

Aaron Lin

Gabriel Cadierno

Lucas Mora

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Cross Images, Sailboats, and a Castle

3/14/2024

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Seventh grade Art Tech students have been creating personalized versions of the San Damiano Cross. This original iconic crucifix painting was created by an unknown artist, possibly a Syrian monk, in Umbria, Italy in the early 1100's. A large reproduction of the San Damiano Cross appears on the wall behind the altar in Saint Peter Catholic Church.

To create artwork for this project, seventh graders first made pencil and ink drawings of Jesus on the unique shape of the San Damiano cross. People, things, and places for which students are thankful appear in the space of the cross around Jesus. After photographing their work, students colored and edited photos of their drawings with the Sketchbook app on their iPads.

Vivian McKee

Jake Zambardino

William Edwards

William Oswald

Ivan Waters

Leyton Weaver

Cooper Worthington

Ellie Grace Garner

Madilyn Dunn

Bill Powell

Fourth grade art students have been making virtual 3D models of sailboats in landscapes with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software on Chromebooks.

Addison Jenkins

Grace Ford

Annalina Rossi

Brayden McLamb

Maya Ellingwood

Peyton McDowell

Chloe Aheimer

Addison Stanley

Sixth grader Cohen Hogan recently created a Tinkercad model of Bodiam Castle, a 14th century moated castle located in East Sussex, England, UK. A photo of Cohen's CAD model and a 3D print of his model are shown below.

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Sailing into Design Technology

3/8/2024

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Fourth grade art students have created virtual 3D models of sailboats in a landscape with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software on Chromebooks. Students created their sailboat structures by making and altering geometric shapes. Students made copies of their boats and colored them. They then drew landscapes which include bodies of water. After placing their boats on the water, the boats were sized and rotated in accordance with students' intentions for their designs. Steps in the construction of the boats are shown below in a CAD design by Mila Wilson, whose final work also appears here.