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.
