Online art class for everyone

This page is for those of you looking for something creative to do. My current trimester 3 art students will be working on a series of creative challenges as part of their graded work, but everyone is welcome to explore their global citizenship here!

Through this forum, we will be:

- creatively problem solving.

- building collaborative projects.

- communicating through online video

- explore our own curiosity through the power of the arts.

- critically thinking through things to build a more exciting learning platform!

Stay tuned for concept number one!!

Creative Challenge NUMBER 1

There is a math concept called "direct proportion" We are going to explore this through art making. Direct proportion is the increase of something at a constant rate, over the course of time. The goal of this creative challenge is to create a rock sculpture by moving no more that 4 rocks at a time. The end result will be to see how many rocks you can you stack over the course of a one hour period of time.

Part 1: Watch the videos so you know what to do

Who is Andy Goldsworthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQKZghtyiY&t=40s

Gravity Glue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpXGUqfVPE

My video of my rock sculpture is at the bottom of this assignment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18fWV2SdZyOB-VjNFHo8mZHdN0PfFbTXH/view?usp=sharing

Questions to think about.

  • How many sculptures will I make if I can only pick up four rocks at a time?

(I walked up the hill and back down 6 times. Ashley ran up the hill and back down 10 times.)

  • What will my sculpture look like? (I stacked my rocks on the big rock, but Ashley put hers in a big pile)

(Ashley and I took 2 hours to make our work, because we were walking/ running a mile each time between building our sculptures. Will you build a much bigger sculpture because you are not walking as far?)

  • What if the people I am building my sculptures with collaborate and we build one big sculpture?

(Originally that was mine and Ashley's plan, but as we were working on our sculptures at different times, she couldn't find mine and I didn't notice hers until they got bigger, so we ended up making two different sculptures.

Part 2 - FILM your creative challenge

Take as much tame as you need to create your master piece! I took a video at the start and then photographs of each stage as I built. Then I put the whole thing together into a slide show on my computer.

Materials

Nature - rocks

You, your siblings, any adult in your house.

Some thing that can document your progress - camera, phone, chromebook (be careful using it outside!!!)


As you build, think about how much time it's taking you to create your rock sculpture.

Is it faster if you have more people building with you?

Can you balance the rocks one on top of the other like Michael Grab does?

Part 3 - Upload your creative challenge video!

I will share the most exciting challenges on my school websites online gallery!

Don't forget to include what you and your family most enjoy about this challenge!

Direct proportion.m4v

Creative Challenge 2 - Pythagorus inspired sculptures

This week has brought a lot of new things into our world and one of the BEST parts is the new math class I signed up to! It's Ms. Blanchards 8th grade math class. We've been working together for a while now on arts integrated collaborations, but because we are learning remotely, I actually get to be in her class, learning alongside the other students!! This weeks art lesson was inspired by her awesome teaching and her love for her art: math.

Andy Goldsworthy (1).mp4
Pythagorus inspired stick sculpture.m4v

Kees and I built our sculpture from the ground up.

Andy Goldsworthy our current artist model and he is inspired by nature. He often takes his work to the very edge of its collapse. It's a beautiful balance that sometimes tips too far in the wrong direction and then all falls apart. Never the less, when we persevere in building, we can create some incredibly beautiful pieces of art work right in our own backyards

Video taken from "Rivers and Tides", 2001, Andy Goldsworthy Documentary.

Step 1: Collect a bunch of different sized sticks. The more you gather, the better. Don't break anything off the trees though, we don't want to summon the Lorax!

Step 2: Get your camera/ recording device ready!! You'll want to document this process to see how it grows! Take lots of pictures and videos that you can collate on your computer and turn into a slide show once you get back home.

Step 3: As you build, look for the triangles, the right angles, the parallel lines, the perpendicular lines, the obtuse angles and the acute angles. Decide if your sculpture is going to grow up from the ground like ours did or somehow be suspended in air.

Remember, the only things you are using for your sculpture is items that you find in nature. That's all. Don't harm any plants in order to create your work. Everything you need is on the forrest floor.

Send me your Pythagorus inspired sculptures (sfritz@sau15.net) and I will exhibit them here on our online gallery! Can't wait to see what you create!