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Sorry gang, had a crazy couple weeks there. But I'm gonna catch up quick. I'm going to knock out a few activities to get everyone back up to speed with Panther's successes...


Wire Sculptures

Big Idea: Bummed out that none of my teens could make it to our resident artist Augie's workshop on Saturday, January 21st, I decided to keep the interest in his art alive (they had met him at the museum the previous week on Wednesday, January 18th) by creating my own wire challenge. It was the first activity we tried before going into planning our movie later that afternoon. I realize this strayed from the sound cycle a bit, but they showed so much interset in his work, I had to give them some feeling of his creative medium.

Dates: Wednesday, January 25th

Groups Participating: Panther teens

Attendance: 4 teens, including Breala, Eddie, Jonathon and Joshua

Software: none

Hardware: none

Materials: 2 staightened coat hangers per teen and 2 needle-nose pliers per teen, paper and pens

Directions: So I had the teens think of at least a dozen three dimesional objects, write them on suares of paper and put them in a box. Some of them included a flower, a car, a dog, a gun, sunglasses, achair, ect. Then we each drew an object. Using the needle-nose pliers and 2 wires, they had to form that object the best they could out of the wire coat hangers. After we finished that, we took the objects and tried to combine them into new objects. A few pics of thier sculptures are below.

Associated Concepts: Familiarizing them with Augie's medium, introducing that art can come from anything.

Best Part: Seeing the teens work together to try and creatively combine the two.

Worst Part: Trying to get them started. Wire coat hangers don't seem appealing to teens, but once the challenge was presented through drawing specific objects, they got into it.

Improvements: I really wish we could have had Auggie see all the teens somehow. Perhaps organizing a provied ride by the club on Saturdays would help workshop attendences.