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Inspired by Marie Eichmann’s second grade class at Perkins School and their Monster Match distance videoconferencing project last fall, Newark High School art teacher and Pre-‐K-‐12 art supervisor Courtney Dentel decided to take the project a step further and develop a collaborative art-‐making activity between her two Pottery classes and the second graders. Each of Eichmann’s students drew
a monster and wrote very detailed descriptions of what they looked like. The drawings and descriptions were sent to Dentel’s pottery students, who would each “adopt” and make their monster. Working only with the descriptions, each NHS pottery student sketched out, in color, what they thought each monster would look like. After the sketches were completed and approved by Dentel, the Pottery students sculpted the monsters out of clay, Mired them once in the kiln and then painted each with bright acrylic paints. When the monsters were completed, Dentel then showed the second graders’ drawings to the Pottery students to see how closely their clay sculptures matched them. The results were quite amazing! “Depending on the amount of detail provided, my students matched the descriptions almost to the letter,’’ Dentel said.
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Description, upper left, and drawing, below, by second grader Michael Potanovich and sculpture, above, right, made by NHS sophomore Jamie Cosby.
From the get-‐go of the project in January, Dentel’s students knew they were creating a monster to give to Eichmann’s students. “That inspired them to take great pride in their work, knowing it was for someone else,’’ she said.
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Description, above left, and drawing, above right, by second grader Alaina Wolanyk and monster, below, by NHS senior Autumn Hackert.
On April 18, the NHS Pottery students met Eichmann’s students at a pizza lunch at Perkins School. There, each NHS Pottery student and second grader pair got to know one another a little bit before going to the Wayne County Council for the Arts, where the children were able to see their monster sculptures on display and compare their drawings to the Minished sculpture.
“This project was a great way for the second graders to continue working on using very speciMic details in their writing, while the Pottery students were able to use their imaginations and Mine tune their clay sculpture skills and techniques,” Dentel said.
“ What was most rewarding was seeing the high school students take such pride in their work and seeing the excitement in the second graders when we all met, “ Dentel said. “My second graders had a blast being paired with the high school students and collaborating on this project,’’ Eichmann said. “Meeting their high school buddies and seeing their monster sculptures was very exciting. My second graders are already looking forward to taking a pottery class in high school with Mrs. Dentel!“
Thanks to Courtney Dentel , NHS Principal Tom Roote and John Domm from the Wayne County Council of the
Arts for providing photos!