Students learned how to make handmade books from repurposed food packaging boxes. Some are made from pasta boxes, while others made from brownie mix boxes. Students practice the pamphlet stitch to sew their books as well as the groupings of pages are called signatures. The two themes students could work from were Earth Day or Autism Awareness.
Students learned/reviewed four foundational skills for working with clay and making attachments using clay: score, slip, smoosh, and smooth. They also review pinch pot techniques to build small cup like vessels of their own original design.
8th grade students studied South American cultures rooted in Mexico. A primary focus in these cultures is it connecting materials to personal memories and historical use.
Students chose to memorialize a person, place or thing that is important to them in their own lives inside a memory box made from various materials, paint makers, and altoid tins.
Students create paper sculptures of slices of pie. They had their choice of pie type and were tasked with paying close attention to developing the textured details of the surface. Their goal was to make a realistic looking slice of pie made from paper. How students developed the surface through colors and lines helps us see the textures of the real surfaces of pie.
These expressive works helped students to develop their sense of surface space. Their essential question was: how can an artist help the audience's eye move through and around a work of art? Through use of lines, shapes, and textures, students worked to create a sense of movement around their boxes.
Quilling is the art of rolling strips of paper into different shapes and arranging them into a design. It is a decorative style of art that can create a three dimensional affect with the paper glued down on its side to pop off the work surface.