The Sorting Table: Making Collections

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Roxy Savage
Program Type Workshop
Art Form Visual Art
Curriculum/a Character Education | STEM | Social and Emotional Learning | Environmental Awareness
Target Grades Elementary School (1st - 5th grade) | Middle School (6th - 8th grade) | High School (9th - 12th grade) | Young Adult (18 - 21 years old) | Family | Early Childhood (PreK-K)
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"Having the opportunity to work with AFLCT has been truly beneficial; they've provided unique experiences that have positively impacted our students. Their professional artists are strong role-models who encouraged students to take risks, find their voices, and be confident young people. They assisted in the process of inspiring our students to discover their individual identities and be able to self-assuredly express and share their ideas and opinions."

Description

What is a collection? Why do people collect? Where do we find collections?
What happens when multiples of things come together to make a work of art?

This workshop: "The Sorting Table: A Collections Art Project," invites participants to create new collections and make a work of art from multiples.

To start, participants go to tables "set" with objects ranging in form, function, and material. The directive for each group is to: re-sort the items & make a new collection. Each group shares its new collection/story.

Following the share, participants create a collaborative "multiples" paper sculpture using basic school supplies.

Objectives

This workshop offers "critical thinking and collections (identification) as an artistic pedagogy."

"Art-making" and "art looking" are about making choices, decisions and judgments.
This active workshop is beneficial in developing and generating critical thinking organizational skills, and creative play.

Pricing Information

$515 for one workshop
$2060 for full day experience

Program Length

1-hour workshop

A 1-hour workshop can be taught back to back workshop/event style

This workshop can be offered at a Teacher Training program.
This workshop can be offered to students of all ages.

Participants

20-40 people - max/Teacher Training classroom/ event space

Technical Specifications

4 or more 6ft- 8ft Tables/ (paper table cloths)

Assorted nature (acorns, twigs, rocks)

Assorted Kitchenalia

Assorted wearables

Assorted School supplies: paper, pencils, bags of rubber bands, crayons, scissors (things that the school has in bulk in the supply closet)