Week 5 Response

One of the books in the classrom was "By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art" edited by Shu Hung and Joseph Magliaro. I found one artist that I was struck by, named Maragrita Cabrera. Here are "Pink Blender" (2002) and "Coffee Maker MIM" (2001) They are made of vinyl, thread, velcro, and appliance parts. I love the soft look and how she leaves the threads hanging from them. I'm thinking my sketchbook entry this week will be inspired by her work.




We talked about the use of emergent curriculum and responsive classroom. I like this idea of working together to listen to and be inspired by the students and their energy. It would also be kind of scary to just trust this to work and not have everything planned out. A lot can be accomplished by just listening to the students and asking what they think. Aileen said "Solicit the interest of children and follow them."

A couple weeks ago when looking at the sketchbooks Aileen cut out black paper viewfinder frames and laid them over the drawings. Last week we came up with two ways to move forward using the frames. We could choose one place that is interesting and zoom in on it in the next drawing. We could also move the frame around and use it to tell a story from the first drawing.