Level: Elementary School Duration: 2, 45 minute class periods Historical Overview: August Rodin and France (For Adults: Judy Chicago) Goals and Objectives: To introduce sculpting techniques. Vocabulary: positive and negative space, carving additive and subtractive methods, proportion, scale Materials: clay, carving tools, wire and washer clay cutting tool, sponges, water containers, …
Title/ Description: Papermaking and paper casting Level: Middle School and High School Duration: 5, 45 minute class periods Historical Overview: Japanese Paper Goals and Objectives: To introduce papermaking process and the importance of recycling, reusing and recycling paper. Vocabulary: deckle, pulp, cotton, recycling, molds, press, iridescent Materials: paper making screen, …
Through art, Art Sphere Inc. uses the themes of oysters and water to teach the importance of the conservation of wildlife habitats. Unique artwork shown locally and abroad represents the joint efforts of artists and community members, who use printmaking, drawing, sculpting, and painting methods as well as mythology, poetry, …
Title/Description: Paper Sculpture Oyster Project Level: Elementary School Duration: 1, 45 minute class period Historical Overview: Andy Goldsworthy, Environmental Artist from the U.K. Goals and Objectives: To introduce collage process and the importance of recycling, reusing and recycling paper. Vocabulary: collage Materials: Reeves BFK or other cotton heavy weight paper …
Art Sphere’s “The Envelope Projects” are creative assignments for facilitating community members facing physical, mental and emotional challenges to poverty, incarceration and violence to explore their lives through self-reflection and make art for self-empowerment. When we are awaiting news, envelopes represent lack of control …if we get the news we …
Art Sphere supplied the materials and facilitated the Hawaiian “Aloha-Lei Project” at John H. Webster Elementary in Kensington. This unique collaboration with a local art teacher reached 500 students with a message of sharing, love, peace, and compassion through bead and flower necklaces. You can make an Aloha-Lei art project too. We used fishing …
Pick three random words. They can be found by randomly turning pages and pointing in a dictionary. Make a sentence(s), poem, or short story, using those words. Illustrate those words. It can be in the form of a visual story, like a comic book). World of Words: The collection of …
