the idea: create two-colored sculptures and their environments

the ideator: Amy Beth Harrison

I recently taught a studio art class with Amy Beth rather than our usual one-off tour/art activities.  There are a lot of things you teach differently if you’re working with a group that you see multiple times versus a group you see only once.  For this activity, I got to see what Amy Beth does over multiple visits.

She decided to talk to the kids about sculptures and environments.  They created a diagram for the entire piece first, the animal, the environment, and the two colors that they got to use.  Then, over a succession of classes, they created the animal, painted it, and then painted the cardboard box.

By the time the kids took their projects home, they were incredibly excited and had something really cool to show their parents/siblings.