In their sketchbooks, students imagined a new world in which their clothespin would interact with the environment around it. It could be a real or pretend world, visited by humans or other species. As they narrowed down a habitat for their public art, they chose supplies to use to build a diorama. The scene was to include the clothespin (a tribute to Oldenburg’s sculpture) and tiny model people for scale. Students could incorporate drawing, air-dry clay, and any other available materials they might choose to complete their setting.
Art teachers share lessons that focus on media arts, digital processes, and new technologies. Students design and develop meaningful side-scrolling video games, learn light painting techniques to capture long-exposure photographs, turn 2D drawings into 3D-printed models, create a digital floral folk-art piece inspired by their heritage, and more.
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