Visual and Performing Arts

Pixelate Me

How can being restricted to five or six colors push students to see shape, shadow, and value in different ways?

Fabric Arts

These laser cut loom kits can allow students to create small woven pieces using color and texture. Excellent instructional video here.

Jewel Thief

Need some bling for a costume, prop, or art project? Students can design jewels then cast them in resin.

Lighted Jewelry

Some soldering, a few LEDs, and a coin cell battery can yield amazing results--jewelry or pins that light up.

Mixing Media

Art students might create mixed media pieces with construction and supplies help from the Bourn Idea Lab.

Sparkle Much?

Oberon and Titania, the Sugar Plum Fairy, or a musician might all benefit from clothing with custom light patterns on display. Match the lights to the mood or scene.

Another idea is to integrate lights into a wearable piece of art.

Crown It

Talk about wearables, how about a crown / headdress that includes a coded light / sound display? We can even create diffusers for the the light out of fill, tissue paper, or other materials. Let's get regal!

Customized

Actors, dancers, or musicians might all benefit from custom costumes with coded designs on them. How neat to fuse VPA with some math, coding, and making! Or, let's combine coded designs with art made with fabric paint to create wearable pieces.

Pinball Art

This pinball machine is literature-themed, but how about pairs of students show their understanding or interpretation of an artist's style, a movement's traits, or a particular technique? Then, invite the whole school to a dynamic art show.

So Lit

Imagine incorporating motion-activated lights into a dance or timing the changing colors to accompany a piece of music.