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/
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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