Happy New Year! We started with what inspired us over winter break and went from there. Here are some of the things we shared with each other.
This is Not A Book, Jean Jullien
Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan
Stitching Rites (Colcha embroidery), Suzanne MacAulay
The Unsteady Hand Creative engagement for those with Parkinson’s
PROJECTS
Art Shoppe: The community donates and gathers discarded objects. Students transform them through art via thematic strands: robots that fix problems, mischievous alter egos, imaginary worlds. Christy Loher, Brown Elementary, Jesse Bott, Brown Elementary
A study on posing (Kehinde Wiley): Clay action figures pose in a way that symbolizes beliefs. Aimee Burke, Prospect Elementary
Bookmaking as a vessel to contain images: portraiture/anthropomorphized animals, inspired by Julie Buffalohead, Angel Estrada, Thorton High School
Bookmaking as a way to solve creative problems combing content to 3D forms. Heidi West, Thorton High School
3 dimensional word wishes. Students build them and take them into the world. Jody Chapel, Arts Street
Empathy Dolls (Art Assignments Object Empathy Dianna Spungen Elizabeth Stanbro, Young Vision
Draw a “normal” picture, make it weird, then make it weirder, then make it weirder, and so on. Send the picture to artist, Alexandra deBenedictus. She alters it more and sends it back. Then the final drawings are made into a collaborative coloring book. Inspired by Mark Ryden. Jenny Drake, King-Murphy and Carlson Elementary
Your Daily Diary: Using Lynda Barry’s prompts from Syllabus with students, Erica Gonzolas GALS
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RESOURCES that emerged from our discussion
Portraits that Aren’t a Portrait (Enabling Artistic Inquiry, Juan Castro)
Superflat and Takashi Murakami,
Art Hives : An archive of local artists
Hollis Sigler; narrative artist
Tom Killion’s prints
QUESTIONS
How do you help students who struggle to represent their identity?
How much do we dictate? What happens when you release that control?
How do we think (and draw) with our hands?
How about one of your classes creates art about content and the other class designs a book form to embody it?
FEATURED ARTIST
Curtis Santiago (Infinity Series) Social Justice Miniature tableaux