In April, I spent a week with all art classes at Mascoma Valley Regional High School. The week was a key feature for their Art and Environment week, leading up to the Saturday Festival/Open House.
I planned different projects for each group of students.
This first group's work was about engaging with natural materials, through observation, drawing, making small sculptures, and more drawing.
What I liked about the experience with this group, was their response to the materials. I think they were surprised about how it felt to build with moss, sticks, rock, bark. Their designs were creative, immediate, and temporary.
As part of the project, they worked to assemble their resulting images into a presentation to be shared at the Festival.
There were 3 groups of these "Art 1" students, and each group ended up with a slightly different angle to the connections between their works.
One group, found litter and logos along with natural materials outside, so their work placed the human impact alongside the natural.
The second group observed the cycles in nature- from decomposing/dead natural objects, to living, growing plants & trees.
The third group focused in on trees- their textures and designs.
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