Childrens' Theater Company - 2 hours - James Scoggin
I had such a great time working with 3rd grade students from Lyndale School for the Lyndale Scenic Art Build along with a multiple teaching artists! We were building sets for the play the children are going to act in. I was working with mainly two groups of students - one of the group's task was to make a bathtub and the other was to make a stove. Before I got into talking with the students they had already come up with a plan among themselves and the teaching artist about how they are going to approach the project. They drew a flat bathtub on a cardboard sheet which I helped them to cut out. We then decided to tape it so it looks a little dimensional. Then we all painted it together. One student really wanted to stick sparkles on it, and so we as a group found out a way to do that! They decided to put them just by the tap so it looks like water drops! At the same time I was also helping with the strove group. They came up with an awesome idea to cut out cups to make them controllers for the strove, other members were painting the stove. Later we cut out holes and put foil under it so it totally looked like a bright strove. The bathtub and the strove turned out great!
The environment was just super fun with lots of supplies and high school students helping out along with other teaching artists. We were all busy as they had limited amount of time and a lot to do! It was an amazing experience and I'm excited to do more!
Minneapolis Institute of Art - 2 hours - Elizabeth
This week we went to Morris park for the sunburst workshops. This was SO much fun and such an humble experience. I really love going to these community parks, as we go into the public spaces that people are so familiar with so they are so comfortable with the environment and are totally themselves!
The workshop was well attended and the age group was 40-65 year olds. It was such an ambitious team! We made 102 (I counted!) pieces of sun-rays. We had a system established where one would roll the bottles, other would wrap them and we would all put the paper masse on it. The conversations were great too, people were just sharing stories and life. I had a great moment of awakening during this time. Some of them had never heard of the May Day parade or the museums! We are always surrounded by this world and sometimes its so easy to forget that not everyone is aware of our world. We introduced the May day parade and our project and invited them to the free museum!
Something super fun happened during this workshop. I had my first Tornado drill! They don't do those in India so I had never experienced one. So everyone decided to make my experience a special one and pretend that it was a real Tornado by giving sound effects. We ran by the wall and everyone sat down to show me how to react when a Tornado occurs! They were all sharing their first drill and Tornado experiences and they were as glad as I am that they were part of mine!