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This project lends a whole new meaning to the term “community-building”! Up to 100 members of the school community come together to build, photograph and, eventually, dismantle improvisational 3D structures produced with low-cost recycled materials. This group exercise in project creativity, collaboration and compromise incorporates geometry, spatial reasoning, design principles and elements of engineering and architecture. The final result? A satisfying hybrid folk art/contemporary environmental sculpture.
Jeff Mather
Site Sculptor Jeff Mather is a master teaching artist and a nationally-known community-based public artist. He has directed over 100 public art projects in Georgia and elsewhere.
Jeff has served as an artist-in-residence for groups of every age level throughout Georgia, creating more public art in Georgia than any other sculptor. At the Woodruff Art Center, Jeff has been artist-in-residence for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum. He has also been artist-in-residence for the Atlanta Children's Museum and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
As a teaching artist, Jeff is also a true community-based artist, and his presence in a school can be a catalyst for forging new inter-departmental partnerships and new partnerships with the community-at-large.
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Grade Level:
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Program Type:
Workshop
Audience Limit:
30
Duration:
60 minutes
Cost:
Workshop: $490
Planning Session: $165
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