ArtSpace @ Moya Elementary: January 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Let's have a Parade!

Today everyone was very energetic, but mostly because we were using glitter!

And yarn, and construction paper, and glue to make our parade floats a little more colorful and multimedia than the marker drawings done on Monday.

We began class again today by playing Miss Becky's favorite game: ships and sailors. Take a look at Titanic and 3 people rowing.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Ships and Sailors!!!!

Today we learned Ms. Becky's all time favorite game, Ships and Sailors! It's basically a way cooler version of Simon Says. In order to successfully play you have to be a super good listener and memorize a handful of directions and gestures.

Here they are in "Captain's Coming!" pose:

Everybody "Hit the Deck!"

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Back at it.

Our first day back at Moya was was a blast! We had a lot of new faces and even a new teacher! That's right, Mr. Ben graduated so now we have the fabulous dancer Miss Becky. With all the newness flying around the room we thought new nametags were in order.

About our instructors:

Matthew Mosher

Matthew Mosher redefines contemporary art through interactive installations, public performances, and digital media. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006, Mosher traveled around the world independently researching sustainable design and community building. In addition to teaching middle school level art courses, Mosher has worked for notable studio designers Ashley Eriksmoen and Crispina Fuchsia. He currently lives in Tempe, AZ where he is working on an Intermedia MFA through the Herberger Institute for Design and The Arts at Arizona State University. As an advocate for humanity the world over, he instills in others the passion to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Rebecca Ferrell

Rebecca A. Ferrell, a native of Richmond, Virginia, is a dance educator, perfomer, and award-winning choreographer. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated Cum Laude in 2004. Rebecca's dancing has taken her around the country and she has had the privilege of teaching with The Governor's School for Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts and Will Power To Youth, an nationally-awarded arts program dedicated to the growth of at-risk youth. She is currently a master's degree student in dance and graduate teaching assistant in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Dance.

About ArtSpace:

ASU ArtSpace is a transdiciplinary arts and design afterschool serving the Phoenix area and establishing a new model of arts educational experience aiming to ensure that its students are self-confident, successful in school and proactive in making a positive impact in their community. ArtSpace was launched in Fall 2008 by a partnership between the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Arizona Department of Education. The ASU ArtSpace program places graduate students from all Schools within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at eligible schools to provide transdiciplinary programming focused upon their disciplines and thesis. The graduate students design their own transdisciplinary curriculum in teams of two based upon a global theme such as Time, Place, Communication or Storytelling under the guidance of Melissa McGurgan, the ArtSpace Program Coordinator.

ArtSpace classrooms are treated as creative spaces where students are exposed to a multitude of artforms, skills and collaborative processes and the graduate student instructors are able to test and develop experimental teaching methods, techniques and learning processes incorporating art, design and technology. The pilot semester of ASU ArtSpace took place in Fall 2008 and is now serving 12 schools during the 2009-2010 school year. The ASU ArtSpace program exemplifies the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s charge for universities to form partnerships with local school districts and create a new generation of teachers while establishing ASU as an accessible educational entity which embraces new thinking and approaches to art and design to hundreds of children, families, educators and communities throughout the Valley.