Tentative Scheduale for Panther's Art Cycle

Just to fill everyone in, this is what we've been up to out there, and where we're going. So far its been great and both the teens and I have learned alot, and I'll be blogging about each activity individually very shortly...

Panther's Art Cycle

Monday, March 27th
Art interpretation Activity:
Interactive exploration of slides of various works of art and what they make us feel and what they may mean.

Wednesday, March 29th & Monday, April 3rd
Spin Art machines:
Using crickets and motors to build rotating palettes to create “spin art” using various mediums (markers, pencils, paint, etc.)

Wednesday, April 5th
Museum Tour & Art Questionnaire:
Visiting places in the museum the public never sees where our museum artists create and store exhibits, including the Wood Shop, The Exhibits Shop and The Collection Library. Then exploring the exhibits and identifying each installation's medium (sculpture, painting, photograph, or computer generated art).

Monday, April 10th & Wednesday, April 12th
Shadow Painting:
Building sculptures from light woods and hot glue and using their shadows to create images.

Monday, April 17th & Wednesday, April 19th
Robo-Art (cricket powered):
Building sturdy, durable 3 and 5 legged robots running on crickets and lego motors that create spiral and scribble art

Monday, April 24th & Wednesday, April 26th
Art Story Telling:
Begining with a field trip to Modern to photograph art, we then arrange our images to tell a story of our own and present to the group to guess the story it portreys.

Monday, May 1st & Wednesday, May 3rd
L.E.D. Art:
Using L.E.D.’s to create various sculptures and works of art, including the never done L.E.D. “Throwies”, where L.E.D.’s are attached to magnets to create magnetic night lights, where when thrown together create a 3 week glowing collaborative work of art.

Monday, May 8th
TCU Art Department Field Trip:
Take a tour of the TCU sculpture lab, photo lab, and painting department, and perhaps bring some of our pieces to show professors and students.

Wednesday, May 10th
2nd Annual Panther Boys & Girls Club Gallery Night (Culminating Event):
Display one or two of the best pieces created during our art cycle and open it to the public.