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RE: mobiles

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From: Lea, Robin (rlea_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 05:00:59 PDT

Try using fishing swivels on the mobiles so that they move freely!
Robin in Raleigh

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From: DrawntoU@aol.com [mailto:DrawntoU@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:21 AM
To: ArtsEdNet Talk
Subject: Re: mobiles

Hi Lydia,
    Here in Fostoria is Seneca Wire, where I went for wire to make mobiles.

They took me through the factory and let me pick out exactly what I wanted,
then gave me bunches as a donation.
    I teach high school. We use fish line and wire, and suspend the mobiles

from the lights in the room while we work on them. Students use whatever to

create hanging objects: plastic lids painted and with family pictures glued

in, small wire sculptures, plexiglas decorated with stained glass paint,
ceramic shapes, copper enameled shapes, small collages, decorated eggshells,

bead sculptures, appleheads, icosahedrons created of colored paper, origami
birds, woven ribbon fish, decorated soft sculpture faces, shapes cut of
scrap
mat board and painted, metal shapes, test tubes filled with colored sand, or

whatever else you may have on hand.
    I begin this unit with a video called "Mobile." It is about Alexander
Calder's final mobile which was created for the National Gallery in
Washington DC.
    Have fun!
        Janealla 

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