After spending a lot of time in the newly refurbished / planted courtyard for the past week, we got our art juices flowing this morning by drawing pictures of how we thought it would look like in 30 years. Most of the students were very optimistic and showed trees growing taller and the plantings becoming more full and beautiful.
We also finished our nature collages that we started yeste
rday. I think the hard work paid off - they look great! The collages were also a great learning experience since most of the students had never used painted paper like that before.
After finishing our collages, we talked about landscapes and watched a short clip of an art21 video about Maya Lin, a landscape architect. She was the artist who designed the Vietnam Memorial, but she works a lot with landscapes, especially using topography. It was cool to see a contemporary artist who worked with landscapes in a non-traditional way!
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