Last week I was invited to return to my highschool for a couple of days to introduce art into the home-ec room, and sewing into the art room. HOW COOL IS THAT!? It was entirely cool for me. My biggest regret with highschool art was that fibre was in no way part of that classroom. Well, it is now! ; ) I gave presentations to grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 on how I came to discovering this world I'm in now. It was really fun - with the exception of giving the SAME 50 minute talk over and over EIGHT times. After three presentations, I was so bored with hearing myself retell that story. Still, I was a trooper. On the second day, I had the same grade 11 & 12 kids back again. So Mr. Fullerton (the art teacher) and I put together a little experimental fibre art project for that class. It was cooool : )
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| he handed out some thick chunky watercolor paper |
The students were asked to to a watercolor wash on them.
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| I provided thread, yarn, floss, metallics, and some inspirational books |
Then the students were asked to stitch into the paintings, however they wanted and with whatever colors they liked. I showed them a bit about selecting needles and how to audition threads. Away they went!
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| sewing with silver |
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| sewing with gold |
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| some were stitching on a landscape |
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| some embellished eye-catching abstracts |
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| some gave up before they even began stitching (view into the class garbage can) |
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| some were deeply thankful for the opportunity and went on to create masterpieces : ) |
That is whole point to why I got involved in this particular venture. Not everyone is expected to enjoy every kind of art. But everyone in a school art class should have an opportunity to explore many forms of art.
The art world includes FIBRE.
And look! Now theirs does too! : )
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| The box I left behind. It's now part of their classroom. |
: )
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