Art Word of the Week!
This week's art word is Lines! Line is defined as a "visible mark made by an artistic tool" (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009, p. 366). They can be short, long, thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, jagged, smooth, and dark or light (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009). Without lines, a lot of famous artwork would not even exist today. Children entering the fascinating world of lines can improve on their fine motor skills especially when they need to draw different types of lines as the ones mentioned previously.
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This week's blog post required a guerrilla art to be done. Instead of doing this alone, I decided to join a group. Group members consisted of: Angela, Melody, Tara, and me (Kelly).
Before I even start explaining what we did, here is a FANTASTIC video that one of my group members (Melody!!!) created showcasing our guerrilla art in action as well as people's reactions to it!
As you can see, our guerrilla art consisted of post-its that actually have positive comments written on them. We decided to go with this idea of writing positive comments on post-its and placing them randomly all over a table in our University's cafeteria because since it is the end of the term it tends to get very stressful for students and faculty. Therefore, we decided that people could use more positivity during this hectic time of year and wrote positive comments on those post-its so people can take away that positivity with them. We even drew on some of them! Group members Angela and Melody set up the guerrilla art in the morning at the cafetaria when it was not very busy.
What was interesting to see was people's reactions. In the video you saw many people take post-its meanwhile others would walk around it because it just seemed weird that there was a table full of post-its in a university cafeteria. It was just very out of place. There were even some people that when they saw this table filled with post-its they even walked FURTHER AWAY from it! It was quite a sight to behold. My group members and I were happy to find out that people actually kept some of the post-its as seen in the video. There were even some people who stuck the post-it on themselves!
This whole experience was so much fun. It was something new that my group members and I got to experience together which hopefully brought smiles to people's faces. We would not mind doing it again!
Before I ended this post,I just wanted to say: to the people who took one THANK YOU and the people who haven't YOU SHOULD HAVE! :D
Until next time fellow bloggers!
~Kellz
References:
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, E. J. (2009). Art & creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Delmar, USA: Cengage Learning.
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