Cross Cultural Connections

Yesterday in Germaine and Barb's E1 class, the creativity at the stations grew larger than I could have expected. 

Here is a simple dough and cookie cutter station, where a group of girls created an imaginary French bakery called " La Boulangerie Bakery." Their designs were inspired from a class work on France and one girl's trip there. 

Can you see the little Eiffel Tower on one of the pastries? 

They then connected with the students at the Origami Station, who taught them how to make  cupcake holders for their creations.

Meanwhile, at the Origami Station, the paper felt too small. So they used butcher roll paper. Which again, felt too small. So they taped four pieces together to make a mega large square. 

And the mega cup was born!

Lastly, this group made a large paper crane and attached it to the mega cup to make a mask hat.

It couldn't be denied- it was a great hour of creative, worldly connections! 

Quote of the Week: Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler: "You never make exactly what is in your mind, because methods and materials and conscious awareness change the original thought. And, of course, you are then working with a material thing and not only a thought. Just as novelists are sometimes overtaken by their characters, artists are also influenced by the shapes, lines, and colors that place demands upon them and the final painting. The artist has to have a dialogue with what is being created." From The Emergence of a Painter" by Susan Cross, In AFTER MOUNTAINS AND SEA: FRANKENTHALER 1956-1959. Guggenhiem Museum, 1998.