Monday, November 8, 2010

Personal Wearable



This Saturday, we introduced our last project: the personal wearable. In this project, students were to use all of the knowledge they accumulated in their performances, appropriation pieces, and personal utensils, to create their final personal wearable. Throughout the semester we focussed on different aspects of our identities, asking ourselves the questions: who are we as humans, as a community, and as an individual.

For this final project, students were to create a piece of artwork that served as an extension of themselves. How could students address the notion of identity via a continuation of the body? We introduced this project with a prompt: What is one thing that your friends do not know about you? After students answered this question, the class headed down to the wood shop to create a piece of wearable art that somehow addressed this question. Students were given the majority of the class for work time. Students will also have next week to work. Here are some images of our wood shop extravaganza...

Gracie sews a "life" vest.

Julia and Riley work collaboratively to build a wearable instrument

Claire creates a head piece

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