ASU ArtSpace @ Longview: December 2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

THE FINISHED TABLES!!!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in ArtSpace this semester. The students successfully completed the picnic table project and the tables turned out looking great! To celebrate the students had a pizza party, played some games, and made christmas cards. We are looking forward to another great semester and hope to see everyone return in the spring.

Here is a look at the final product...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tables are looking Great!

The students are putting the finishing touches on the tables as they are both beginning to look great! Both the 'Games' table and the 'Landscape' table are almost finished. The students are also going to make checkers and X & O pieces for use on the "Games' table.

Since the students are working in teams as they paint, the rest of the students work on a comic book strip using their faces as characters in the story.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Let's Paint the Tables!

The students beginning the process of painting the tables. Part of the challenge will be creating the two tables purely from the three primary colors of RED, YELLOW and BLUE. As the students paint they create their own colors by mixing the three primary colors together. The tables are beginning to look great and very colorful!

Since the students are working in shifts painting the tables, they have also been working on a couple ofther activities...

...keeping the idea of expression through painting, the students also expressed themselves through...FACEPAINT!

The class also worked on a banner to showcase in the school's hallway

Monday, December 7, 2009

Picnic Table Project (Design Day)

The students decided for the semester project to paint two of the picnic tables in the Habitat Space to bring some color and fun to the space. The students first decided on two different themes for each of the tables. The first one is going to be a "Games" table that will feature a checkers board, tic tac toe spaces and a mural in the middle. The second table will be a "Landscape" table featuring both a sea scape and a jungle. The students are currently coming up with designs for the project and painting a base coat on the tables.

Some Current Designs:

The first base coat on the tables:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

CLAY DAY!!

About the Instructors:

Kim Headlee

Kim Headlee is a graduate student at Arizona State University in music with a concentration in the Arts, Media, and Engineering program. Her primary research interest is combining music with technology to create new avenues in the field of music therapy. She also loves composing, arranging, and singing, especially jazz. In any spare time not spent learning new things, she likes to bake cookies and hang out with her family.

Justin Pasternak

Justin Pasternak is a graduate student at Arizona State University studying architecture and sustainability in the built environment. His primary design focus is on residential and community oriented projects such as recreational facilities community centers. His hobbies include art, golf, basketball, football….all sports, and most importantly discovering and learning new things.

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.