Yesterday was a great day of brainstorming for our 6th grade sculpture project. Here is a sumary of our ideas:
Introduce sculptures as forms of public art and teach students about the benefits of public sculptures for communities. Purchase old shoes from the Goodwill and gesso them white "blank canvases" for students to redesign shoe. We discussed two ways to take this shoe idea. 1.) Create personal shoe designs focusing on the student or 2.) creating shoes that represent an important part of the community. The focus of "Walk a mile in my shoes" was brought up several times.
Some initial goals related to conceptual ideas about what the shoe could represent but we did not get to discuss in depth what art skills we hope to introduce and teach students. This led me to do more investigating on creating art with shoes.
I did some research and found a lot of people shared the struggles with using real schools for our sculptures and some push-back about using "previously worn shoes." I am posting a short video of an art lesson that teaches you to make a masking tape cast of a shoe. I think this may be really fun for students and it would be very personal for them to cast their own shoe and then think about where they would want that shoe placed in the community. We could still create a map or scavenger hunt. What are your thoughts? Feel free to put comments here.
Here is part 2
This is alright, I wonder how hard it is to wrap the tap sticky side up, has anyone tried that before? Would we have enough time to complete them? Also, we and the students would still have to handle a shoe of some kind worn or not.
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