String!
Sam Troilo
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Where can you find string around the house?
Where can you find string around the house?
Go on a Scavenger Hunt
Go on a Scavenger Hunt
Some places to check...
The kitchen for cooking twine
The cabinets for an old sewing kit with some thread
The garbage! (only if it's clean, maybe start with the recycling bin)
Your closet, a lot of clothes now use string to tie the tags on
Packages, did you receive anything that came in a bundle that was tied together? Did someone give you a gift with a twine bow holding the gift bag handles together?
Old clothes, blankets, rugs, anything that could have some loose threads hanging off that can be easily snipped, remember, don't pull on snags! Only snip off what has already pulled out
Other suggested materials for string exploration:
Other suggested materials for string exploration:
Exploration with String
Exploration with String
Pin and String
Pin and String
Using a material like cardboard or foam board, place pins in the material and connect them by wrapping string around the pins.
You can make an image, or just some cool abstract shapes! Experiment with the layering, what happens when you cross over the same spot multiple times? Try using different types of string!
KUMI YAMASHITA
KUMI YAMASHITA
CONSTELLATION - MANA no.2
CONSTELLATION - MANA no.2
Kumi Yamashita 2013
Wood panel painted white, galvanized nails, and one single unbroken piece of sewing thread
STRINGS
STRINGS
Kumi Yamashita 2016
Wood panel, galvanized nails, and seven colored threads
Jewelry
Jewelry
Try making a friendship bracelet!
Bonus - Paper beads!
Bonus - Paper beads!
Grab some scrap paper (I used newspaper)and cut it into long triangles. Find a long, thin, cylindrical object, like a pencil or paintbrush. Place the short side of the triangle on the cylinder, cover the top of the paper with glue, and roll it around itself on the cylinder. Let the bead dry a little before pulling it off of the cylinder (hopefully you didn't glue the bead to the pencil/brush!).
Put those beads on your handy dandy string and you have a piece of jewelry!
Try Using String to Add Texture!
Try Using String to Add Texture!
Embroidery
Embroidery
Using your various types of strings and a needle (you can even use pins to poke holes and push the string through if you're patient enough) you can create designs in things like fabric, paper, and even cardboard.
MICHELLE KINGDOM
MICHELLE KINGDOM
Closing Ranks
Closing Ranks
Michelle Kingdom 2019
Fabric and thread
We are not made for defeat
We are not made for defeat
Michelle Kingdom 2017
Fabric and thread
Faithfully Yours
Faithfully Yours
Michelle Kingdom 2020
Fabric and thread
Developmental Rationale
Developmental Rationale
Based on information presented in CreatingMeaning Through Art, Teacher as Choice Maker by Judith W. Simpson et al.
Based on information presented in CreatingMeaning Through Art, Teacher as Choice Maker by Judith W. Simpson et al.
Lower School- Using string in the mark making phase can help students start to develop motor and fine motor skills at a young age. String used as a malleable line engages the student’s tactile sense, and at this age their “aesthetic understanding is based on their sensory response to the visual world” (p. 37). Using string in various ways past this phase, through symbol making, and up until middle school would greatly benefit a student’s fine motor skills by helping them exercise small muscle control and coordination.
Middle School- Students at this age are very self conscious, as they are going through several big changes. String is not primarily seen as a ‘drawing tool’ so the self conscious middle school students can feel more free to experiment, not having to worry about if their artwork looks ‘realistic’ as that is not a quality often attributed to string work.
Upper School- The large variety of applications available for string makes it a very open-ended material, which pairs well with students who are starting to figure out who they are and what direction they want to go in, both personally and artistically.
Through this process I am hoping students will explore the versatility of string and how it can be altered to achieve various results. I would love for them to discover a process or application of string that they enjoy and related to their own personal practice in some way. Through building this web page I filmed myself creating the examples pictured and drew out visual supports with the end goal being a tutorial-like video that I will be working on. Even without the video, I am hoping the visuals and examples I have created will inspire students to explore the material and create something that they enjoyed making.
Through this process I am hoping students will explore the versatility of string and how it can be altered to achieve various results. I would love for them to discover a process or application of string that they enjoy and related to their own personal practice in some way. Through building this web page I filmed myself creating the examples pictured and drew out visual supports with the end goal being a tutorial-like video that I will be working on. Even without the video, I am hoping the visuals and examples I have created will inspire students to explore the material and create something that they enjoyed making.
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