ArtSpace @ Moya Elementary: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mache Mess

After Mondays paper mache adventure we decided to continue our messy creations outside. Thankfully some students brought a change of clothes this time. This stuff can get everywhere!!! Eek! And boy was it hot today! Hopefully we can get the mess under control & move our float making party inside next week. We will post pics soon!

Monday, March 29, 2010

I'm Turning into the Statue of Liberty!

Today we started to paper mache our mascots!!!! Thankfully we did this OUTSIDE. It got a bit more messy than we expected but everyone had a ton of fun and their projects are looking great! I think the best part of the day was when the goop started to dry on their hands, arms, faces, etc. and they thought they were turning into statues! Here are a few pics of the paper mache madness:

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

It Begins!

Today we kept working on the Krewe floats, making them bigger and stronger! There was a lot of tape consumed, and a lot of newspaper, quite a flurry of activity. Most krewes worked well as teams, diving up the mascot parts or work in "assembly" lines. Here are some videos from today.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Krewe Floats!!!!!

We started our Krewe floats today! While it looks like a lot of crumpled up newspaper now, it will look AWESOME later! At the end of today we had a snake, a few arms and legs,a bunch of eyes and two BIG heads. Check out this pic of the Cardinals hard at work:

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Spring Break

Wow, all those PTA meetings and spring break are really cramping our style! So rather than starting the paper mache floats today, we equipped all the new students with sketchbooks and colored pencils for some good old fashioned drawing time. But what to draw? Ms. McCain, the art teacher at Moya has a fabulous book by Ed Emberley on how to draw animals using simple shapes. It even gives step by step instructions! So I helped a group of boys through the first couple of pages. Since all the animals are made from basic shapes, you can draw them even if you are looking at the book upside down! We found the frog seen on the cover was the most difficult.

The weather was so nice we spent the first quarter of class outside using chalk to draw my favorite thing: Pirate Ships. A ninjas vs. pirates battle ensued...

See you in two weeks!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Krewe Floats: Rough Draft!

After finishing our fabulous masks today we continued drawing a rough draft of our krewe floats. Can you guess which poster belongs to each krewe?

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.