February 2015: The Shadow Box Process

 

 

 

 The School-Wide Shadow Box Project

 

We made Paper Doll People.

We made Shrinky-Dinks to represent our interests.

We painted our boxes.

 

We learned about Joseph Cornell, an artist who made Shadow Boxes.

We put our names in the boxes.



We assembled the items we made and the items
we brought from home into our boxes.



We helped each other figure out how to attach

the wire and beads.

 

Once all the boxes are completed and displayed, we will share them with our classmates and have a Scavenger Hunt throughout the school to learn about each other!

 

 


This School-Wide Project is a great example of how we incorporate the
Harvard Project Zero Eight Studio Habits of Mind into the framework of the
art curriculum at CHS. In this project the students:

• Develop Craft- learned art skills while making their boxes
• Engage & Persist- worked on this project over the course of several weeks
• Envision- imagined and visualized their boxes while creating them
• Express- created personal meaning
• Observe- learned connections between their schoolmates through observation
• Reflect- discussed their boxes and shared their decisions with classmates
• Stretch & Explore- learned from mistakes and accidents, problem solved
• Understand Art World- learned about Joseph Cornell

Come and visit the school and you can learn a lot about us. Our boxes
are starting to go up and will be displayed through our Multi-Cultural Day
Celebration in May!

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There are still spaces available in the Summer MOREART program (for students entering first-fourth grade in the fall). The first session is almost full. For Information please contact me: jbennett@concordhill.org