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Week 2 Day 2: Design Time6/27/2017 Today the kids took the feedback from the community, along with precedent from the councilors, and started coming up with their own designs. We have designs of stages, fire pits, club houses, hammocks, and much more! To help aid then in their designs we had them visit the site, take pictures, and list all of the advantages and disadvantages of each lot. We hope this information can help shape the way they design. Later in the afternoon we took a break to work on another small installation to help spark their creativity, and the kids loved it! All their faces lit up as they made something, and worked together. This was a great end to the day and tomorrow they will work on furthering their designs.
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Week 2 Day 1: BBQ Time6/26/2017 After our plans for Friday had to be postponed due to the weather, we were finally able to meet with the community today. The kids rebuilt their installation in the vacant lot and set up displays showing pictures of all the work they had done last week. A fair bit of the community came out and the students interviewed them, asking what they wanted to see in the lot. After the community meeting we meet back up at the studio and made a list of all the feedback from that day. Our list included things as simple as a small play ground to a complex fish pond. The kids are excited about all the new ideas the community gave them and tomorrow we start to make these ideas into concrete designs.
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Week One: Small Installation6/23/2017 With all things comes both the good and the bad. The good is we have a new camper, Larresha, and the kids finished designing and building their instillation. Another bonus was getting the kids to start looking at drawing both artistically, and architecturally, some even tried their hands and axonometric drawings. The bad, our Friday plans all got rained out. We had wanted to invite out the community to see the instillation, and to ask for their feedback. We hope to be able to meet with the community meeting to Monday, but we ended our week on a high note. The kids had the chance to talk with a local landscape architect about the river front project. We are excited to see what the kids come up with next week, and see what feedback they get from the community.
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Week One: Table Decorating6/21/2017 We are excited to have a new camper join us, Sam. We also had the chance to meet with a local artist, Frank Lewis Allen, and have him talk to the kids about drawing. We drew with Frank on large pieces of grey and white paper, then took our skills to our table and allowed the kids to decorate them. With their imaginations flowing we had them start to sketch out an idea for a small installation we hope to have done Friday.
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Meet the Campers: James6/20/2017 James is a budding math genius who hopes his time at the Tired-a-Lot Summer Studio will help him grow his creative genius. When you graduate, what do you want to be? A commercial pilot. What skills do you bring to the summer studio? The first skill I will bring is math. The second skill is creativity. The third skill is "artism." Who has inspired you? My Momma has inspired me. When she found out I was a math genius, she told me I should be a commercial pilot. She said it would be a way to travel, so I said "Ok." In one tweet, how would you describe the color yellow to a blind person? Happy, cheerful, warm, bright, playful. |