Photo Galleries of Past Projects
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Engravings
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 18 October 2019 Session
The students celebrate Halloween Jean Zay students donned handcrafted masks. Nature's Way students showed homemade Halloween decorations. Jean Zay students show their art. Nature's Way students show the drawings they created of two of Beauford's Knoxville haunts. Jean...
Gallery – Classes Duo – Nature’s Way – Beauford’s Knoxville Haunts
The Nature's Way children drew images of two sites important to Beauford in Knoxville - the second Delaney family homestead ... ... and Austin High School.
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 27 September 2019 Session
A NEW SEMESTER OF CLASSES DUO BEGINS Four sessions are scheduled for Fall 2019. Jean Zay students watch as Nature's Way students show their versions of Beauford Delaney's 1944 self-portrait. Jean Zay students also painted Beauford's 1944 self-portrait. Nature's Way...
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Beauford Delaney 1944 Self-portraits
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Beauford Delaney 1944 Self-portraits
People & Pajamas 2019
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Last art class Spring 2019
PARIS MEMORIES Nature's Way art educator Dawn Kunkel sent images of several Paris drawings the students worked on the last day they met before summer vacation. Dawn also sent an image of the watercolor she did of the view from her window at the Hôtel Odessa!
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Arts and Mathematics
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 10 May 2019
Click on the image to watch Doussia recite her lesson. "Here is my mathematics lesson in the style of Beauford that mixes art and math." Click on the image to watch Ilyana recite her lesson. Click on the image to watch Maleine recite her lesson. "Here is my...
Gallery – Classes Duo – Nature’s Way – Mockingbirds in Clay
In a second project inspired by Beauford and Joseph Delaney's sculpting of animals from clay when they were children, the Nature's Way students are creating sculptures of Tennessee's state bird, the mockingbird. See the results of their labor below!
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 9 April 2019
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Eiffel Tower Triptych
Eiffel Tower triptychs - Aquarelle
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – KMA Art Exhibition
Knoxville Museum of Art Photos by Dawn Kunkel Photos by Rozz Martin Parent-Student Reception
Gallery – The Successful Woman 2019
Welcome Reception - Evening of 6 March 2019 Stand Out with Purpose: First Impressions for Lasting Influence Lunch Posing Networking at the Musée YSL Legacy Panel - Personal, Financial, and Philanthropic Legacy
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 15 Mar 2019
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Eiffel Tower Triptych – Prep
Preparation for creation of Eiffel Tower triptych - Aquarelles Preparation for triptych of Eiffel Tower - Collage Preparation for triptych of Eiffel Tower - Crayon Preparation for triptych of Eiffel Tower - Graphite pencil Multiple studies of...
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 8 Feb 2019
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 18 Jan 2019
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Triptych – Sunsphere
Phase I of creating a triptych of the Knoxville Sunsphere Phase II - Final Results
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 14 Dec 2018
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Arts Movements and Color Presentations
Mary Campbell presents three arts movements that influenced Beauford Delaney's style: Impressionism, Fauvism, and Abstract Expressionism. Matt Hilton gives a science presentation on "Color," which addresses concepts such as how the human eye works, light particles,...
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Marian Anderson
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Jean Zay – Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald Portraits
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Ella Fitzgerald
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – 16 Nov 2018
Gallery – Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville – Nature’s Way – Sketchbook Drawings
SIGHTSEEINGBefore meeting the Jean Zay Elementary School students in person for the first time, the Nature's Way group visited the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Tuileries Garden. At the garden, they participated in an art sketchbook class designed by...