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Monday, February 19, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Ecology Art Education
Ecology Art is what the wing I teach in should be named. The two classrooms next my art room are ecology rooms. The ecology teachers and I have been working on promoting use of environmental friendly materials and recycling. We have tossed around allot of interesting project ideas.
Here is a list of a few of them:
1. Creating an Eco walk at the school. Art students would create wood burning posts to label trees, flowers, plants, etc.
2. Painting the recycling containers in the cafeteria. Art students would study Pop Artists and paint the trash cans to replicate beverages available in the cafeteria. The company name would be replaced with the word "recycle".
3. Assemblage sculpture with objects found in the trash.
4. Handmade paper with classroom scrap paper collection.
What we are missing is the connection that would make ecology and art interdisciplinary. I have been researching ecology art a little more closely with how to do this in mind.
These are few of the websites I visited and found interesting:
http://www.ecologicalart.org/ecartandet.html
http://www.ecologicalart.org/artecpoet.html
http://www.natureartists.com/
Here is a list of a few of them:
1. Creating an Eco walk at the school. Art students would create wood burning posts to label trees, flowers, plants, etc.
2. Painting the recycling containers in the cafeteria. Art students would study Pop Artists and paint the trash cans to replicate beverages available in the cafeteria. The company name would be replaced with the word "recycle".
3. Assemblage sculpture with objects found in the trash.
4. Handmade paper with classroom scrap paper collection.
What we are missing is the connection that would make ecology and art interdisciplinary. I have been researching ecology art a little more closely with how to do this in mind.
These are few of the websites I visited and found interesting:
http://www.ecologicalart.org/ecartandet.html
http://www.ecologicalart.org/artecpoet.html
http://www.natureartists.com/
Friday, February 16, 2007
What's going on in my ARTROOM!
For my first posting I thought I would include some images and a breif explaination of the projects my students are working on in class.
In Art 1 we are wrapping up a unit of figure study. So far students have drawn from manikins and student models. From our drawing studies, students have developed additive figure scultures. Here are a few pictures of the students hard at work!
My Art 2 class students were assigned a man-made structure from various cultures. Each student researched their structure and wrote a short paper on the history of the structure and its importance to society. Students are curently creating sculpures inspired by their chosen structures.
The advanced Art 3 and 4 class is currently working on abstract self portraits. The students took pictures of each other with a digital camera. They then altered their pictures in photoshop. Each student must use a color harmony of their choice in completion of their painting.
In Art 1 we are wrapping up a unit of figure study. So far students have drawn from manikins and student models. From our drawing studies, students have developed additive figure scultures. Here are a few pictures of the students hard at work!
My Art 2 class students were assigned a man-made structure from various cultures. Each student researched their structure and wrote a short paper on the history of the structure and its importance to society. Students are curently creating sculpures inspired by their chosen structures.
The advanced Art 3 and 4 class is currently working on abstract self portraits. The students took pictures of each other with a digital camera. They then altered their pictures in photoshop. Each student must use a color harmony of their choice in completion of their painting.
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