We had a great night sharing projects, student work, resources, and asking questions.
PROJECTS
Accordion Book about The Secret Life of Trees, 5th grade, Christy Loher
What do trees mean to you? What secrets do trees have?
Notebook Paper Exercise from The Process , 10th grade, Erica Gonzolas
Transforming the design (blue and red lines, holes) of notebook paper to express concepts and emotions
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RESOURCES that emerged from our discussion
The Process:A New Foundation in Art and Design, Wilde&Wilde (college exercises that can be translated to lower grades)
The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables, Maciek Jasik
Fiskars Huge Circle Hole Punch
How do Trees Collaborate? Podcast about Trees Talking to Each Another
Christine Odlund: Visualizing and recording the language of plants
Object Empathy Art Assignment Diana Shupungin Repairing the world
The Sketchbook Project A diverse and abundant on-line archive of sketchbooks
Virtual Reality Tours of Ancient Egypt
QUESTIONS
How do students show the art history content that they learned from virtual tours?
What successful projects have you done that work with Kindergartners?
How do you create a rubric with students?
FEATURED ARTIST
Francis Alÿs is a painter and performance artist who works with boundaries, politics, poetry.
Set Theory Exchanging artwork with local sign painters to repaint the image…Alÿs explains, “I commissioned various sign painters to produce enlarged copies of my smaller original images. Once they had completed several versions, I produced a new ‘model,’ compiling the most significant elements of each sign painter’s interpretation. This second ‘original’ was in turn used as a model for a new generation of copies by sign painters, and so on, ad infinitum.”
Retouch/Retoque Repainting sixty yellow, fading median strips on a road in the former American Panama Canal Zone, the territory joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as a gesture of repair.
The Fabiola Project Finding, purchasing, and displaying 450 reproductions in flea markets of a lost 1885 painting of 4th-century Roman Saint Fabiola by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner.
The Green Line Leaking a can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the “Green Line” that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem.