We made a virtual art show to celebrate the students and their artwork as we navigated through the uncertain Spring of 2020 with Covid 19 and online learning.
Students made a variety of blind contour self portraits. They then took the drawings they most liked and arranged them in a pleasing composition. They then transferred them to drawing paper and enhanced each one's line quality where they saw fit. They then filled them with arbitrary color. Students learned about alebrijes—a kind of Mexican folk art. They had to write down many attributes about themselves and then identify what animals are associated with those attributes. They “mashed-up” the animals into an alebrije and depicted them in them in scratchboards, which they also made. The results are vibrant, high-contrast, fantastical creatures.
Students practiced drawing what they see instead of drawing what they know. Each was paired up and drew their partner without lifting their pencils from the paper and without looking at the paper. Then through a series of processes recreated their drawings, enhanced the line quality, and filled them in with arbitrary color. The results are lyrical, uninhibited, expressive portraits.
Students discussed what masks are used for—protection, warmth, breathing, hiding identity, showing identity—then discussed how those relate to online social networking. Students made masks which both show and hide identity. Sometime they show the discrepancies between how they present themselves online vs in real life, how they act around family vs friends, and emotions which are socially acceptable to show and emotions which are not.
Students research different Greek pot styles and ways they were decorated. They then appropriated a style and showed a narrative in sgraffito from their own life or family life.
Many of the images in this gallery are from students who created their own projects after having researched ceramic artists, brainstorming on the most effective ways of communicating their concept, and submitting a proposal for approval from the teacher. Some images in this gallery are projects students did on their own time.
Reliquaries were elaborate containers for holding relics—items highly respected and venerate because of their association with a saint or martyr. Students investigated reliquaries from various religions, the meaning of sacred, and what in their own lives is "sacred." They created containers from slab construction for concepts, relationships, people, or events that they consider sacred.
Students learned how build with clay using pinching, scoring and slipping. They created pinch pots in great variety that represented cultures—cultures past, cultures created, and cultures from their very lives.
Vanitas is a type of still life that typically included skulls, jewels, fruit, and flowers. Artists included the skulls to remind viewers that death comes to all and the flowers and fruit to show that beauty fades with age. The jewels reminded viewers that the material things of this life aren’t important. Students created personal vanitas drawings, including items that are important to them now, but aren’t in the long run.
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