Challenge: If you were biking to different villages each day, to teach art lessons, what would you take in your backpack?
I'm leaving for Pai in less than a month, and preparations are underway.
One of the biggest challenges is thinking about what art supplies to bring.
I'm asking everyone I know the question "What would you take in your backpack?" and am receiving some great answers.
Answers so far include: brightly coloured materials, lots of good paper, pastels, sketchbooks, powdered paint, home-made glue. . . .
A local creative re-use center, Stuff Redux, has generously donated some powdered paint. I can't wait to use them with the students.
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| Powdered Tempera |
I'd really like to focus on incorporating the local arts and materials into my curriculum. When I was in Guatemala last year, the students were extremely receptive to a lesson that utilized local materials. I gathered some sawdust and dyed it multiple colours, and the students made a wonderful collaborative temporary sculpture out of it. The lesson was inspired by the Mayan tradition of creating "Alfombras" out of flowers and coloured sawdust in the streets during festivals.
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| Alfombra in the streets of Guatemala |
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| Students working on their collaborative sculpture |
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| Students answered the prompt "What would your dream community look like?" |
Do you have any ideas about must-have materials to take?
