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Materials we used: Cast-off shoes, nuts, bolts, screws, collected wire, aluminum cans, disposable
aluminum trays, bottle caps, bits of wood, stick, acrylic paint (I rarely advocate the use of acrylic paint)
plastic packaging, soda bottles, re-purposed paper clips, brads, glue gun and much thought.
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In the eco-artspace, most of our projects are done in groups. As I refine my ideas about teaching for sustainability, I begine to realize how multi-faceted that idea is in its application. Teach by doing. Live the ideas and give over to the process of learning and working.
Collaborative work is sustainable work. Ebb and flow of ideas, honoring change and dissent, a conversation in motion.
A while back, 25 students worked on a series of monoprints. They worked on the same plate, which was a donated piece of scrap plexiglass, abour 24×32. We printed on paper left over from a printing business. We used Akua Soy-based non-toxic inks. Each student had an opportunity to respond to the image left on the plate by the previous students. The printed images are the result of many eyes and hands. We were thinking of photographs of the microscopic natural world- cells, paramecium, crystal formations. The works were done with the 1-3 grade class.
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Using sun-reactive paint, silk, leaves, sticks, stones and sunshine,the students created 9-ft banners that hang from ceiling to floor.
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Here we are working on our paper mache models of endangered and extinct animals as part of our 2-quarter inquiry into issues surrounding extinction.
The students worked in groups, first researching and choosing an animal to represent. Then they began creating the animals out of newspaper and refuse from the school, including gallon juice and milk jugs, cardboard, shredded paper, packaging materials. The only thing we purchased new for the project was masking tape and white flour to make the paper mache.
All in all there are ten animals being made, each averaging 4 ft. tall/long. I used flour, water and cinnamon and cooked the paper mache/glue, which is so much easier to work with than the sandard water/flour paste mixture. The students liked the cinnamon smell as well.
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