ArtSpace @ Encanto Elementary: April 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Monday, April 5, 2010

Here we are painting rocks..

Our class has been coming up with ways to leave our mark on Encanto's campus - this is one project created to communicate three aspects about each students personality - On one rock they wrote meaningful words - on another they painted a self portrait - and on another they are using the rock's shape to make an imagined insect.

About our Instructors:

Ellie Richards

Ellie Richards graduated with a BFA in Art Education from the University of Dayton in Ohio. With a developed interest in sculpture - She moved to Arizona to continue studio work at ASU. She will begin her third year in the Graduate program working towards an MFA with a concentration in Wood Sculpture. She exhibits work locally and maintains several teaching positions. Ellie takes a playful and imaginative approach to both her studio work and classroom structure.

Joe Lenz

Joe Lenz is a 5th year Masters of Landscape Architecture student at ASU. He will also be pursuing a concurrent masters degree in Urban Design. His focus and interests primarily include developing sustainable design that have a positive impact on the local and global community.

ABOUT ARTSPACE:

ASU ArtSpace is a transdiciplinary arts and design afterschool serving the Phoenix area and establishing a new model of arts educational experience aiming to ensure that its students are self-confident, successful in school and proactive in making a positive impact in their community. ArtSpace was launched in Fall 2008 by a partnership between the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Arizona Department of Education. The ASU ArtSpace program places graduate students from all Schools within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at eligible schools to provide transdiciplinary programming focused upon their disciplines and thesis. The graduate students design their own transdisciplinary curriculum in teams of two based upon a global theme such as Time, Place, Communication or Storytelling under the guidance of Melissa McGurgan, the ArtSpace Program Coordinator.

ArtSpace classrooms are treated as creative spaces where students are exposed to a multitude of artforms, skills and collaborative processes and the graduate student instructors are able to test and develop experimental teaching methods, techniques and learning processes incorporating art, design and technology. The pilot semester of ASU ArtSpace took place in Fall 2008 and is now serving 12 schools during the 2009-2010 school year. The ASU ArtSpace program exemplifies the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s charge for universities to form partnerships with local school districts and create a new generation of teachers while establishing ASU as an accessible educational entity which embraces new thinking and approaches to art and design to hundreds of children, families, educators and communities throughout the Valley.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Observing the Olive Tree through sketches

Working on a field notebook...

Monday, April 12, 2010

Heads Up Seven Up

Monday, April 5, 2010

Here we are painting rocks..

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