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What can you do with a box of white plastic spoons?

It’s always great to see what happens after a group of students visits the Memorial Art Gallery!  Recently, students from Pittsford-Mendon High School responded to work from both the permanent collection, Dawn’s Landscape XL (1975), by the American sculptor Louise Nevelson:

Louis Nevelson

Dawn's Landscape XL

and a piece by Nick Kozak,  included in the Extreme Materials 2 exhibition:

Nick Kozak

Ecosystem, 2011

Here’s their teacher, Beth Quattrociocchi, on their project:

Mendon High School Studio Art, Sculpture and Contemporary Crafts students visited the Extreme Materials 2 exhibit in November.  My Studio Art students were inspired by Nick Kozak’s Ecosystem, and created their own “spoon installation” here at Mendon.

Each student was encouraged to work with other students in the designing of their tiles, in order to create movement, pattern and rhythm.  Different types of balance were also discussed as part of this, including radial, symmetrical and asymmetrical.  See photos (below) for examples of their work!

Submitted by Beth Quattrociocchi
Art Teacher, Mendon High School

Pittsford Mendon project

Pittsford Mendon project

Pittsford Mendon 2

Pittsford Mendon tiles

Pittsford Mendon 3

What can you do with a box of white spoons?

Using only one box of white plastic spoons, hot glue and a 10”x16” foam core base, students then joined their individual pieces with others to create a full installation.  If your students have work that was inspired by a visit to the Gallery, please let us know – we’d love to see it!

Marlene Hamann-Whitmore
Curator of Education

Comments

Comment from Heather Vitticore
Time: December 13, 2011, 12:21 pm

This is wonderful! So great to see how students are inspired by other artists and what they can take away from an exhibit.

Comment from Daly@Write a Bio
Time: January 23, 2012, 1:11 pm

It’s so great when you give students a task that is limited in some way, and then you see how their imagination and creativity move the borders and limitations they have set in front of them.

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