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This summer Students, Ms. Leslye, and Teacher an embarked on a journey to explore the Big Idea:
Landscape and Identity
2D : Collage • Drawing • Rubbings
Our classroom met with two groups for one hour each Monday - Thursday for four weeks this Summer. The first group were grades 3rd & 4th grade. The second group was 1st & 2nd grade.
Our classroom began the discussion of Landscape and Identity with 2D work. We made drawings, collage, and rubbings to spark conversation and learning about what a landscape is composed of within a picture plane/Art Historical context and how these 'rules' can be broken.
To make rubbings we took trips out to the campus garden. These garden visits offered the us the opportunity to make connections between the idea of landscape and the actual campus, community, and city that we live within.
3D : Dioramas
Moving from 2D surfaces into more 3D sculptural work, we created Dioramas. The younger group paired up and made dioramas together, while the older group was able to make projects independently.
Students made landscapes that incorporated dreams, imaginings, video games, their bedrooms, Chicago, and more!
Each student then made a representation of themselves that was added to the Diorama at the end of the project.
The Self
For the last portion of our time together this Summer, Ms. Leslye and Teacher an began to ask the student's questions about how they see themselves in their world (or landscape?). Who do they want to be? Where do they want to go? What do they want to do?
These questions culminated in the making of masks and a celebratory end of Summer Masquerade Ball!
For the Masquerade Ball, we made decorations that filled the classroom. The intention was to start to build ideas around the student's individual agency to change and participate in the world/community/city around them!
( p.s. apologies, we weren't great about taking photo's of everything </3 )
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