Shoe Is On The Other Foot

My two weeks with the 7th grade class has ended. I am sad to have left them, but so happy that I had the time to lead them in such an amazing project. Art is a lot about discovery. I have always wanted to try to "sculpt" shoes with masking tape, but was a little reticent about the process. I experimented with the material, as did the kiddos. Teaching them sculpting skills and pulling out their knowledge of geometry was easy with these amazing students. They used the elements of art to really begin to image the function of the shoes as well as the form. The entire class visited the High Museum of Art and seeing the history of sneakers in the Exhibition "The Rise of Sneaker Culture". The students could really get excited about this art exploration, and I think that it was the perfect segue. Enjoy.

 
 
 

Finding Value

What did they do with all that knowledge about the Elements of Art and Principles of Design? They created beautiful micrographic self portraits encompassing poetry that they wrote all about themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make it fun, and interactive; To get students to really understand differing values in a portrait, I had them run a relay race, three teams of students tagged each other to take turns identifying varying values in each of three images projected via airdrop with my iPad mini.

The photographer and the subject student are on the right, in the background.