Climate creative rescheduled

Friday, November 30, 4-6!

6th graders and graphic design

Students are using Adobe Spark to meet the needs of the school and teachers in graphic design and signage:

6th grade in the Climate Creative show!

The Climate Creative Show in the Fletcher Room of the Burlington Library is up!  This show is contains over 200 works made by students and teachers of all ages from school ranging from the IAA in Burlington to Camel's Hump middle school.  Shelburne has a whole wall of amazingness-that contains work by all 6th graders (who met the deadline and handed in their work to me ;), and a few 7th graders who chose to participate as well.

details:

Artist's reception and opening:
Friday, November 16, 4-6
All are welcome, artist's bring your family!

CLIMATE CREATIVE
Fletcher Room (upstairs in the children's section of the library)
Today through the end of November, open during library hours

7th grade interactions with Notan

"As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both a shape and its background."  Dorr Bothwell

Goals for 7th grade work:

Idea choices:  non-objective, illustrated story or hobby

Technique: well cut, clean of glue, mounted nicely, use of “notan” constrictions

Artistic process: focus on “refining” and stretching oneself, creating a formative and then a summative piece, showing growth.

Students created a draft or two of notan to understand how the concept works and then developed a final.  Here are some finals!

Artwork, meaning, and connecting to our lives: Feverish World symposium

This weekend the University of Vermont is hosting a symposium Feverish World
about the questions:

"How can we draw on the creative imagination of the arts, the wisdom and critical insight of the humanities, and the know-how and know-what of science and technology to develop practices for collective coexistence and even flourishing in the climate-destabilized world of our likely future?"

I will have a work on display in the Tentworks area.

Since 6th graders and some 7th graders are dealing directly with this question in their Climate Creative pieces, I've brought this into the classroom.  I had an opportunity to work with the artist, Nele Azevedo on her "Minimum Monument," which students and I used Visual Thinking Strategies to talk about the work and it's meanings.

NSTALLATION/EVENT: MINIMUM MONUMENT

2:00 pm and on, City Hall Park, Burlington

Azevedo has installed variations of Minimum Monument at many locations around the world. This will be a Vermont premier. To be installed on the back steps of City Hall in time for a 2:00 pm unveiling.

NELE AZEVEDO

Néle Azevedo is a Sao Paolo-based sculptor and video and installation artist best known for her “Minimum Monument” ice sculptures -- ephemeral urban space interventions of “melting men” that have been exhibited in cities around the world. Adopted by environmentalists as visual metaphors for climate change, the monuments are intended to “invert” the canons of the public monument: as Azevedo describes it, “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice; in the place of the monument scale, the minimum scale of the perishable bodies.”

Some process photos:

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