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For their latest project, "Transformed Treasures", the Sculpture 1B students have been looking at the works of Tara Donovan and Tom Friedman. Both artists use every day items, and a lot of them, to make their sculptural creations. For one installation, Tara Donovan stacked hundreds plastic cups, developing an undulating landscape of translucent forms. With …
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Students in Painting 1B are embarking on a new project inspired by photo booth strips. There is something beautiful about the scratchy grainy sepia toned photo booth images (very different from the digital images we are so used to now)...and they come in multiples of four! We looked at the famous photo booth images of …
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Tape. What can artists do with tape? Students in the Sculpture 1B class are working with packing tape as their primary material to create forms that reference the body. They are "casting" their body and thinking about how the body occupies space. The essential question for the project is, "How do artists map the space …
Currently up in the Glass Gallery space is the BUGS! Exhibit featuring the work of Sculpture 1A artists. Students looked closely at the way little critters are formed, honing in on the patterns, formations, shapes, and details that nature has provided for them to survive. As students worked on the project, they were asked …
On February 13, Tim Wall, a product designer with Amazon’s Lab 126 http://www.lab126.com/index.htm , visited the 3-D Foundations 1A class. Tim witnessed the “cardboard chair challenge,” at Morning Meeting, and was impressed with the durability and designs of the chair outcomes. Students in the class had 10 days to research, brainstorm, build maquettes and models, …
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