Come One, Come All!

Please join our West Irondequoit Student Artists on their First Friday Opening Celebrations on March 7th!

Our 9-12 Students will be exhibiting with students from Webster and Churchville-Chili High Schools as a Celebration of Youth Art Month (see link) at the Arts Council of Rochester.

A preview from our set up day....

Meanwhile, our Students in Grades 1-6 will also have an opening at Create Art 4 Good Studios in the Hungerford Gallery. Exhibition invitation link here.

Architectural Sculpture

My students created sculptures based on architecture this semester.  We viewed some incredibly inspiring architecture and touched upon some of the movements that inspired these architects. 

video link: amazing architecture

I know the pop ups that come in on the video are incredibly annoying, but the buildings are truly incredible!

The Sculpture and Mixed Media B students viewed movements such as blobism, organic architecture, modern, postmodern, futuristic and deconstructivist as well as a few others..They found that they really got excited about the visuals they were seeing even though many of them had never really thought of buildings as an artform.  After doing some reasearch students created pieces where they combined elements of 2-3 different buildings and created a non representational sculpture unlike anything they had ever seen before. Here are some of their results!

 

Students were able to choose any media that would best represent the feeling of the actual surface that they were trying to emulate.  The pieces above use cardboard, wire, plaster, papier mache, sculpey clay, spray paint, acrylic, rub 'n' buff.... I loved how their results are all so diverse based on the same concept or design problem.  This was our first go at this assignment, and I must say that the student results really impressed me!