Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I 'm starting tommorow... it's only a day away!

Well as I predicted last year, I was kept very busy up until the Christmas break and even after it.  Thankfully our exhibition went well, despite it being a very last minute effort due to the weather and various other factors.
After we got back for the new term,  I received a call from the lady  I am to be working with this term,  about the school project I am getting involved in.  We both agreed that it would be better if I started the following week as she felt she would have chance to run it by the school again.  So tomorrow I have to drive for about an hour before I arrive, and I have agreed to go in a little early to help her set up.  We are going to be doing papier mache, messy and fun!  So hopefully, tomorrow, I will finally have something to put in my blog about my chosen project.
The children have already selected the project which they chose from looking at various pieces of work from the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. They were shown a CD of reproductions  which were created especially for their project.  The class art projects are supposed to be based on their understanding of and responses to the work they chose themselves. 
The idea,  as far as I can see, is that after they make the various projects, the Artists select some of the childrens work, which they exhibit alongside the work from the Museum of Modern Art  at the Wexford Arts Centre at the end of the project.   The children will also have a chance to see their work mounted in their own schools.
I wish they had these projects  in my day! We had chalk and paint and were given an hour a week to do art and the thrill of the day was... we could take it home.!!!  I must dig out my picture I did when I was about 7.. my grandfather was so proud of it he hung it on his wall (upside down) for about 30 years. I eventually got it back when he died.  Funny thing was, I only found out last year, when I saw one on my travels in a exotic garden in France, that it was  a leonotis leonurus plant.
 http://www.healthynewage.com/arbonne.html
I wonder if  my teacher knew?

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