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I inspired by this article on AOEU about making ceramic watercolor palettes with your students. I had a blast experimenting with shapes. Athena had success after her 2nd attempted at her own heart palette!
September 2019
Students spend time using their observations skills while looking at plant photos from the Franklin Park Conservatory and cow skull photos. Students are not allowed to use pencils to outline but use India ink to fill in the negative space.
(HS)2 STEM Academy Art 2 decided it was time for more color and culture in our hallways! Over the course of the year we worked on several murals to gift the school hallways and hopefully bring a smile or two.
The (HS)2 Art & Advocacy class will build a traveling photo booth for (HS)2 STEM academy. Our goal is to create a community project that pulls people together and provides inspiration for documentations, class projects and opportunities for fundraising.
For most people, the photo booth is a shopping mall memory from our childhood, a diversion while waiting for the movie to start. For others, the photobooth is an unbiased and silent historian, capturing a spontaneous moment in four slices of time.
Through research and planning our students will find the creative possibilities with this project including: researching the history of photo booths, photo documentation, and/or manipulation of photo strips and the booth itself.
CHALLENGES: THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGES. WE PLANNED TO USE AN OLDER IPAD THAT OUR ACADEMY OWNS. EACH PHOTO BOOTH APP IS TOO NEW FOR THE IPAD. ACCESSING THE SCHOOLS APPLE ACCOUNTS TO DOWNLOAD AN APP IS TIME CONSUMING. I BROUGHT IN MY PERSONAL IPAD MINI FOR THE TIME BEING. IT TOOK A WEEK OR SO TO ADD. WE ARE LOOKING AT PURCHASING A NEWER IPAD, MORE CORDS AND ANOTHER BACKDROP TO USE WITH THE PHOTO BOOTH TO MAKE IT MORE DYNAMIC.
FOLLOW THROUGH: GETTING STUDENTS TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH INDEPENDENT PROJECTS CAN BE DIFFICULT. ONE MAJOR PROBLEM I HAD WAS TRYING TO TRUST A COUPLE SENIORS TO LEAD THIS PROJECT, BUT THEY WERE CHECKED OUT AND NOT RELIABLE.
2 QUESTIONS:
WHAT KIND OF PHOTO PROPS CAN STUDENTS CREATE THAT WOULD ENCOURAGE PROBLEM SOLVING AND STILL ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO HAVE FUN.
WHAT OTHER WAYS CAN WE ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO USE THE PHOTO BOOTH AS A PROJECT DOCUMENTATION PROCESS?
*this project is possible thanks to an Innovation Grant from Reynoldsburg City Schools 2018-2019
Sewing in Art & Advocacy
April 2019
April 2019
As part of the advocacy part of class, Art & Advocacy 2 students collaborated with a 1st grade class at Rosehill Elementary school. The 1st graders were reading Ugly Dolls books in class and designed their own monsters. Their teacher secretly made copies of all their designs and sent them to our class. The goal was for each (HS)2 student to create a stuffed doll out of the 1st graders designs. We collected fabric donations and I spent a lot of time (and way too much $) at Joann's filling in the gaps.
This was wonderful way for the (HS)2 students to learn how to design from a template and learn how to sew. When a couple students dropped the ball, the art club students were eager to step in to help so we could meet our deadline.
Each 1st grader received a doll and they were so happy in the end!