I work as the art teacher at a small elementary school in NH. Over the year, the challenges, satisfactions and learnings as a teacher became part of my Daily Haiku.
January 14th and 21st represent the visiting eco-artist at school, Tim Gaudreau. We created mosaics from photos of the "trash" kids brought into school. On the 21st, I was part of the process with the first graders. Watching them enjoy the work without hangups about what it looked like was a challenge for me and their teacher !
For my work,I created abstract chips of color from a Hancock's of Paducah fabric catalogue.
The 16th has a geometric, comfortable "quilt" look and a philosophical question about how one teaches art.
The 20th refers to my presenting the artist Joseph Cornell to my students. I created a small box with some trinkets in it.My simple black and white drawing represents the box. Some of them created "boxes" by gluing an assortment of things into various sized boxes. They totally enjoyed it.A couple fifth graders constructed a box of a piece of cardboard.
I'm presenting Joseph Cornell again this year to the third graders. In fact we're starting it today. I'll add some photos of their work over the next few posts.
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