What will your Students Create?

Batiks 

Self Portraits

Mask-making

Reed Sculpture

Giant Puppets

                                    Rocketry 

 Video - How to make giant salmon puppets.

An Odyssey at OCEAN, Part 1

Well, it looks like I'm building an army of hell-hounds yet again!  Actually, I'm working with students at the OCEAN program in Port Townsend to create heads for Scylla, a sea monster depicted as having 6 dog-like heads for their production of "The Odyssey" this spring.

August Arts 2012

Here are some pictures from my residency at August Arts camp in Shoreline.  My core class was reed sculpture and the electives were batik self portraits.

2010 August Arts Camp

This was a great year for reed sculpture at August Arts, the arts camp sponsored by the Shoreline LFP Arts Council.  The kids created several challenging sculptures.  Some of my favorites were the red panda, octopus, palm tree and Frankenstein.  Some nice batiks were created as well!  I saw a great mural of the Fremont Troll near Archie McPhee's in Wallingford.  The whole week was capped off nicely on Friday evening with an incredible sunset viewed from the Edmonds-Kingston ferry.
  

Loyal Heights Ensemble at the Syttende Mai Parade

The parade was a huge success!  For much of this school year, I've been working with teachers, students and parent volunteers to create troll masks and giant puppets based on characters from Norse mythology.  The school made a great turnout, over 100 people.  We had two serpent puppets, the Fenrir Wolf, Hel, Garn (the hellhound), Odin, a Frost Giant, two Iduns, two Ratatosks (quarrellsome squirrels), goat and wolf heads, and a dwarf troll!  Thanks to Kitty for sharing her pix with me.

Loyal Heights parade video on Youtube

Here's a link to the school newsletter for the month of May.   There's more info about the residency and a good column about the benefits of providing art experiences in school.

Loyal Heights newsletter, May 2010