Papier maché: Puppet making

Today we finally started to use some of the shred paper ROSS University donated us... It is an excelent material for Papier maché and here we are making the puppets. Next weeks will be painting and making the costumes and then... we will start rehearsals for the Puppet Show!

Carnival!

Carnival Mood Part 3

Today we worked on making paper "fabric" to make our Carnival Costumes. Tecla is going to be a flower (kind of representing Agriculture) and Gina is going to be a Mermaid (to represent Fishing). I am very pleased that for the first time on the academic year Junica liked the music I played, the reason? it was... this year's Dominican Calypsos! Junica helped a lot painting the floral paper fabric of Tecla's dress. Can't wait until tomorrow!

Carnival Mood Part 2

Today we worked a bit on the masks (painting them) and off course more got excited about Carnival but since there is no time for making a mask AND painting it before Carnival, we started to work on costumes: so far there is going to be a flower, a mermaid and three butterflies... We are using a bag of scraps donated by a local Seamstress, cardboard from Cereal boxes and glue...

Carnival Mood Part 1

We used coconuts as templates for our papier mache masks: we covered them with a plastic bag then started layering handcut bands of print paper (Mary Grogan, Principal at RUPS got it for us)...

CALLS Mural

We finally finished the entrance of CALLS here are the main painters of the second part at full work: Gina, Tecla and Nicauri. We also had some great helpers doing the work that makes things flow easier like Paul and Clarizia holding the paint bottles and other painters that are not pictured here. We still need to make a little sign to indicate Ross Italian Club donated the paint for this project.

Mural

We finally started working on the mural. I was out of the island for several weeks so I did not teach for the previous three weeks. Thanks to Peace Corp Worker Mary Steinke from United States the Art Class had a teacher and now we are at the end of the year. Lauren Scaglione, representative of IASA at Ross or Italian American Student Association donated some money for the Art Class, which we decided shall be used to buy materials for the mural. The first profile in orange is Ms Douglas, the principal over the last 10 years and main inspiration for me, teachers and lots of trainees past and present.

Still Life Paintings

Today I chose to work on a Still Life Painting. The only instruction was that they must use the whole paper and NOT make microscopic fruits... May be next time i'll talk more about observing the shapes and observation and make them make a drawing first...

5 minutes in a game where everybody wins...

I decided to test my colective-art-game invention in a new setting and it was very pleasant to see it still works. Tecla, one of my students said: "I really did not know what to draw, because there is such little time but at the same time it was easy, you don't think, you just draw, and whatever comes, it comes..."

Shadow Puppets Part 2

Last class I felt bad for not letting everyone in, but I just had 10 scissors and one cutting knife and did not feel like dealing with the waiting and/or fighting for a scissors or the students just sitting without doing much. Today I choose to let everyone in. It was a bit chaotic yet everyone had a chance to work on their project, either improving it or make a whole new one, so I had 16 students, and the same 10 scissors and two cutting knifes... but somehow it all worked out...

We used upcycled cardboard picked up from the garbage and celophan paper donated by Ms. Alicia Estey.

Shadow Puppets Part 1

We used upcycled cardboard and celophan paper donated by Ms. Alicia Estey.