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Re: "What am I getting into?"

From: Alix E. Peshette (apeshet)
Date: Sun Jan 02 2000 - 13:46:21 PST

Hi,
An artist's residency? What a wonderful opportunity for both you
and the K-5 students! Try developing the program around a prime
student interest; themselves!! Do self-portraits. With this as the
theme, you can teach them to draw realistically; something that
the older students are dying to learn!! You can take digital
photographs of the students, (or use their school photos) print
them out as 'reference material' and teach cartooning, caricatures,
portraits through art history (from Rembrandt to Andy Warhol) etc.
You will have a ready made audience because the projects are
about THEM!!

This can culminate in a giant school mural. Just my 2 cents worth!

Alix Peshette
Emerson Junior High School
Davis, CA

> Hi Subscribers!
>
> In mid-January, I'm going to dive into an art residency for three
> weeks plus, at a K-5 school here in the NW. This is a first time experience.
> I've lots of ideas, though I'd like to know your thoughts on projects that
> work well, and those that don't. (Quick projects and longer ones.) My program
> will concentrate to a large extent on drawing. Any directions and insights
> would be greatly appreciated. What a way to start 2000! The very best of luck
> to all of you!
>
> Sam.
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