Today, well today was a wash.I am getting my class room ready for our pre-k open house tomorrow and well doing some general house cleaning. Curriculum has to be prepped for the first week back (day after Labor Day) and that is what I was doing today. The director of the pre- school told me I have a 9 in my class (there is still room for one more). I am excited to meet the children. At 5, well you know how eager they are to learn (for the most part). I love introducing them to stories that they have never heard before like the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Native American tales and so forth. I often tell the stories without a book and play act them. The kids love it. In their free time, I will see them playing Nutcracker or being a coyote etc... It won't be long now so I better get some art finished. If my computer had not crashed, I could have gone right into the school year effortlessly. But you guessed it, all of my pre-k files are gone. Sigh.....
The classes that I hope to teach at The Studio this fall and into winter are all outlined and ready to be reviewed by Lucy. I should be ready to promote these on my blog by Friday. I hope to do another Artistic Dialogues class (journal class) right off the bat in September. Plus I want to offer the collage crate class again. Making this crate will really help sharpen collage skills especially for what I have in mind for 2011. Because I am impatient, I want to give a brief preview. Let me preface this by saying: I first became aware of this project from Laura Lein-Svencner (http://lonecrowart.blogspot.com/ search on the word bundles to read her entries). She in turn read about this project from Seth Apter, a New York Artist (http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/ and search on disintegration). And now I hope to continue in the same vein. The picture below is what I am calling a paper packet. It will be assembled and then hung outside at The Studio for about 5 months after which time we will open up our packets, dry the contents, and then make art. More to follow if the class goes, if not, well I am doing this anyway. I think the concept is right up any collage artists alley! Keeping my fingers crossed.
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| Paper Packet prototype. |
2 comments:
The bundles are an interesting concept. Years ago it was a big thing for sculptors to make a clay face and bury it for 1 year and then use the face. I think I'd have nightmares if I did that. You know, dreams of digging up skeletons etc.
Your classes sound super.
Your Paper Packet looks Perfect! Glad you are taking this idea and running with it!
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