Noyes Art at Home: Art Projects
Soar, Ospreys! Clay Osprey Project
Come fly with us on this exciting art adventure! This art kit has all the materials you need to create an Osprey out of clay. An Osprey is a large bird of prey, also called a raptor. They have unique hunting abilities, and they eat almost only fish. New Jersey is home to many ospreys and Stockton University’s mascot is Talon the Osprey!
Fred Winslow Noyes, Jr., Fish Swirls, acrylic on paper, 1999.007.196
Noyes Swirls Art Project
Fred Winslow Noyes, Jr. was an artist, businessman, and collector. He and his wife, Ethel, were the founders of The Noyes Museum of Art. This art project is based on Fred Noyes’s abstract work. It was lively, rhythmic and colorful, conveying the joy of life.
Alfred Bendiner, Ah, Summer, 1945, lithograph, 1994.001.002
Bendiner Ah, Summer Drawing & Coloring Activities
With a touch of humor, Alfred Bendiner produced lively drawings and paintings of ordinary scenes of people going about their daily lives. He preferred to draw and paint and was known to always carry around his brush and paint kit. Bendiner was a caricaturist, artist, architect, and author.
Donna Moran, Water Images, 1995, lithograph, 2002.00.012
Moran Water Images Art Project
Donna Moran’s artwork is a blend of “landscape, fantasy, and architecture,” in digital and hands-on media. She grew up in the Midwest or “tornado-belt” as she calls it, and now lives in New Jersey. Moved by the damaging power of the forces of nature in both places, she sees similar dark forces in the current political environment.
Wassily Kandinsky, Circles in a Circle, 1923, oil on canvas
Kandinsky Circles Art Project
Kandinsky was a painter and color theorist. Circle in a Circle is representative of his innovative work at the forefront of abstract art. He believed that abstract art could communicate without words. “Color is a means of exerting direct influence upon the soul. Color is a keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.”
Joseph Konopka, Miss America #4, mixed media collage
Konopka Found Objects Art Project
Joseph Stanley Konopka was an American artist, born in Philadelphia, and lived in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Konopka was a painter and scenic artist, and began his career at NBC-TV in 1952. Konopka’s collage (pictured left) and several of his paintings are in the Noyes Museum’s Permanent Collection.
19th Century Writing Activity: Pen & Ink
An activity based on letters on display in the Noyes Museum’s Estell Empire Exhibition. Explore 19th century handwriting in pen and ink! Try your hand at cursive script, see if you can read an old letter from 1849 and we will show you how to write your own “old-fashioned letter!”
George Rodrigue, Bear Walls, acrylic
Rodrigue Blue Dog Painting Project
George Rodrigue was born and raised in Cajun Louisiana, the inspiration for much of his artwork. He is best known for his “Blue Dog” paintings, based on a Cajun mythical creature, the “loup-garou” (loo-gah-ROO), or werewolf. Rodrigue’s artwork gave him a way to preserve his Cajun cultural heritage.
Tali Margolin, Home is Where - 1/2, mixed media
Tali Margolin Mixed-Media Project
Tali Margolin is an artist working in acrylic, oil and mixed-media, crossing the boundaries between drawing, painting and sculpture. Her solo Noyes exhibition, Journey, features a series of works from actual journeys of self-discovery. She plays with layers to create a sense of movement, memory, and time. This layering process represents her own personal world, where different places and memories are connected to each other.
Recycled Plastic Charms Art Project
Artists around the world are finding creative ways of reusing plastic. Polystyrene is one kind of plastic that is especially dangerous for marine life. Make beautiful charms and accessories out of take-out containers and plastic packaging!
Tony Smith, Die, 1962, steel with oiled finish
Tony Smith Minimalist Cube Sculpture Project
In this art lesson you will build 3D shapes out of flat material, emulating the minimalist sculptors of the 60s and 70s. The genre they started was called Minimalism for its use of simple and abstract shapes.
Macramé Wall Art Project
The first macramé weavers are believed to have been Arab artists who lived in the 13th century. The craft traveled around Europe through trade and eventually sailors took up macrame in their off time. Macramé is the art of tying decorative knots using cord, string, or yarn. We will show you how to weave a beautiful tapestry out of found materials.
Fred Noyes Three Fishes Art Project
Fred Winslow Noyes, Jr. was an artist, businessman, and collector. He and his wife, Ethel, were the founders of The Noyes Museum of Art. Over the course of Fred Noyes' lifetime, his artistic style changed dramatically from realistic to abstract work. Later in his life, he painted more abstract works, but his main subjects of focus were fish and birds. To honor the 40th anniversary of the museum and Fred Noyes' artwork, this project is about his painting Three Fishes.
