ArtSpace @ Moya Elementary: May 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

PARADE DAY!

We had so much fun at our parade today! The students looked fantastic after wrapping themselves in an assortment of colorful streamers and balloons. Some were so well wrapped that it impeded their dance moves! After finishing the ArtSpace points and everyone getting stickers and photo DVDs we headed outside with feather masks, glittery floats, bead maracas, and cardboard guitars. Everyone lined up on the pavement and did the first rendition of their dance to "American Boy". We then marched, screaming, yelling, and whistling, around the school throwing candy and doubloons to onlookers until we made it to the flagpole where dancing round two happened. The students did a good job if incorporating dust clouds into their solos with fancy footwork. Exhausted from the heat we headed back inside for water. What a great ArtSpace day and year!

We'll miss you! And have a good summer.

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Almost there......

Today we did a dress rehearsal of our parade! We practiced our dance, went over our parade route and made sure all of our throws, floats and masks were looking good. We are so excited to show all of the teachers, family and friends of the kids all the cool things we have been doing in Artspace. They have worked REALLY hard and we are stoked about our parade on Wednesday!!!!!!!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Parade Route!

Now that our dance is done & our masks & floats are looking good, we had to figure out where to have this parade! We decided to take a little journey outside and thought that starting at the jungle gym and walking along the main building of Moya would be best. We also thought it would be cool to start & end the parade with our dance! We will do a dress rehearsal on Monday to make sure everything runs smoothly but it seems to be an awesome plan thus far!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Finishing Touches!

Today was the day to finish EVERYTHING!!!! We had feathers, paint, glue, fabric, beads, and lots of GLITTER all over the place! Thankfully everyone finished their projects & they look RAD! Sorry...no pics! You will have to come to the parade to see the finished product! :)

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Papier Màché

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.