November 30, 2012

• YOU NEED:– VOCAB BOOK• Find the next blank page

• Guest speaker from After School Matters• View some artwork and artists related to our

UNDER the SEA project.

Pipe cleaners?!11/28/2012

Kitsch: • Art or objects considered to be in poor taste but appreciated in an ironic way.

Pipe cleaners…with a TWIST.We aren’t in grammar school anymore; we CAN

make sophisticated things with pipe cleaners

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel "Acanthus Climbing"

Answer these questions in complete sentences about the video you just viewed

http://youtu.be/miSKmArjicw :

• What did the artist mean when she said she had to “improvise a great deal” when building this artwork?

• How would the artist like viewers to think of her work?

Nick Cave •sculptor, dancer, and fashion designer.•“Soundsuits”: wearable fabric sculptures made of many materials, including “kitschy,” everyday ones.

Answer these questions in complete sentences about the video you just viewed athttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june12/nickcave_04-24.html

• What 3 things did Nick Cave try to bring together by making these “Soundsuits?”

• What meaning do the “discarded” objects & materials have to Nick Cave? In other words, why did he first start making these suits?

Turn in your vocab booklets

• Return working on your wire face sculptures.• You can begin on your pipe cleaner project if

you finish your wire portrait OR it’s next week.– Both wire sculptures are due 12/14