This website will follow the process of an art installation creation for the Media Center of Horace Mann Elementary, San Jose, CA.
This group art project will muse on the clogging of our waterways as well as on creative repurposing of the materials around us by knitting together disposable artifacts commonly polluting our waterways. The completed piece will be installed in the Media Center.
The project is designed for 3rd grade classes to fit into their IB curriculum unit called ‘Appreciating Art Around Us’ in spring 2011. Visiting artist Corinne Takara will come to Horace Mann to lead 3rd grade classes in the creation and installation of the artwork. The concept for the installation/art piece is for children to create small sculptures of diatoms (algae) by weaving plastic bags and by using the bottoms of plastic bottles. Hundreds of such diatoms will be created and then connected together to create a large ‘blanket’ or ‘waterfall’ of diatoms that will be exhibited in an installation in the Media Center. The grant will also fund the purchase of several books for the school library on the subjects of art installations and making recycled art/art from discarded materials.
In addition to providing arts experience to 3rd graders, this project will also provide cross-disciplinary educational opportunities including: Providing a context for study of ecology, human effects on the environment, and recycling both for the students who work on the installation and all the students who view it in the Media Center. Raising awareness of the importance of recycling, as all students will be asked to save plastic bottles and plastic bags to be used in the creation of the installation. Letting the Recycling Club manage the collection of the plastic bottles and plastic bags to be used in the installation.
Project supported by the generous funding of a Target Arts Grant.
This group art project will muse on the clogging of our waterways as well as on creative repurposing of the materials around us by knitting together disposable artifacts commonly polluting our waterways. The completed piece will be installed in the Media Center.
The project is designed for 3rd grade classes to fit into their IB curriculum unit called ‘Appreciating Art Around Us’ in spring 2011. Visiting artist Corinne Takara will come to Horace Mann to lead 3rd grade classes in the creation and installation of the artwork. The concept for the installation/art piece is for children to create small sculptures of diatoms (algae) by weaving plastic bags and by using the bottoms of plastic bottles. Hundreds of such diatoms will be created and then connected together to create a large ‘blanket’ or ‘waterfall’ of diatoms that will be exhibited in an installation in the Media Center. The grant will also fund the purchase of several books for the school library on the subjects of art installations and making recycled art/art from discarded materials.
In addition to providing arts experience to 3rd graders, this project will also provide cross-disciplinary educational opportunities including: Providing a context for study of ecology, human effects on the environment, and recycling both for the students who work on the installation and all the students who view it in the Media Center. Raising awareness of the importance of recycling, as all students will be asked to save plastic bottles and plastic bags to be used in the creation of the installation. Letting the Recycling Club manage the collection of the plastic bottles and plastic bags to be used in the installation.
Project supported by the generous funding of a Target Arts Grant.
Below: original rough concept sketch.