Shadow Art

Objective: Shadow Art with Design IT Studios teens at the Applied Learning Academy (ALA) site.

Date: November 2006

Activity: The Shadow Art is a new cycle involving a lamp, white butcher paper, various woods, wires, and craft materials. Shadow art is a way to create a picture through cast lights on some butcher paper. They objects making the shadow generally did not look like the object that is on the butcher paper. On the picture to the left, is a practice run for one of the group to test out how they far the material had to be and how thick the materials needed to be. The teens were broken into four small groups. The first day, the ALA teens had to go online and find a picture of their favorite artist painting or image. After they each printed a picture, I placed the pictures on the board and placed their group names in a hat for a drawing. The first grouped picked had the option to pick any picture from the board. From there the teens had 10 days to build their projects before moving onto the next exercise. The next following exercise was to make a moving shadow art involving the PICO cricket.

The next part for shadow are was to make a shadow turn into a scene or picture using PICO crickets. This was challenging for the ALA design IT teens because they couldn't cut the material to look exactly like the object of the cast shadow.