CBMS Choice-Based Art Studio

CBMS Choice-Based Art Studio
CBMS Choice-Based Art Studio

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Environmental Art: Vermont Winter Inspirations


One thing led to the next, and in the end, a duo of snow artists completed work on a new kind of snow sculpture. 


The project started over the weekend in "C's" front yard, after the two threw snowballs at a tree and noticed that it stuck – this gave them the idea of adding more and more snow and covering the tree as high and low as they could reach. Then, in the manner of environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, "T" photographed the work from several angles and brought the photos to me the next day.

In a learner-directed studio program such as ours, this sort of independent artistic problem-posing and awareness to artistic possibility provide fruitful "emergent curriculum" which can be developed further in the classroom setting.