Artists we studied included Shepard Fairey, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein.
Drawing student just finished an artwork based on the art of others. We spent time in class learning about appropriation, parody, fair use and remixed art then looked at some examples by famous artists. Artists we studied included Shepard Fairey, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein. Students were able to choose their own media, subject and style as long as they were able to demonstrate that they were basing their art off of another artist's work then changing something to make it their own.
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For their last project, 8th graders worked in collaboration with the Little Falls Great River Arts Center on their "GRA Goes Green!" project. Great River Arts Goes Green is an opportunity for students, families, and community members to create an installation that turns trash into art. The 2017 exhibition is titled "Sea of Change" and will focus on reducing pollution in the water, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and small ways to keep the environment clean. To start, we talked about the use of recycled materials in art and then students looked at some artists that use recycled materials to create art. We looked at artists like Louise Nevelson, who used wood she found on the street or from closed furniture factories, Gilles Cenazandotti, who assembles plastic trash he finds on the seashore, and Vik Muniz, who recreates iconic artworks from trash. Once students had an idea of what we were going for, the next step was collecting trash! We were looking for a variety of objects: milk jug lids, bottle tops, plastic lids, pop tabs, chip bags, cereal and cracker boxes, colored pop/water bottles, and cardboard tubes. Next was painting or coloring objects. The Great River Arts Center had assigned us purple and gray for colors - each tile the students completed will be part of a much large installation. Here we are, working to collect and paint materials! Now that we have completed our tiles, they're off to Great River Arts Center where they will be added to the 1,000 tile installation they are preparing for Earth Day. Third quarter in ceramics class has been filled with "have to" projects. These are meant to be skill builder projects where students learn a technique or specific skill in order to have a tool box of ideas to go back to later in the semester.
So far, students have completed pinch pots and ceramic sphere and now they are all at varying stages of completion working on slab boxes, wheel thrown pottery, coil vessels and relief tiles. Any given day, students are brainstorming ideas, working with wet clay, building artworks, refining pieces, watching clay dry (sometimes literally...), glazing and blogging. A few have finished the required projects for the quarter and are working independently on personal projects. Rarely is there a day when more than two students are working on the same thing. Here's what we're working on: Intro to 2D students started the semester by creating an artwork based on their personal interests. We spent time in class doing creativity exercises to practice brainstorming and idea generation then students had time to develop ideas. Students were also supposed to show emphasis in some way - see if you can see how that principle of art is used in their artworks. |
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