Mosaic Collaboration Project Between Grand Valley Ceramics Program and East Kentwood High School

Presentation Type

Oral and/or Visual Presentation

Presenter Major(s)

Art Education

Mentor Information

Hoon Lee, leeho@gvsu.edu

Department

Art and Design

Location

Kirkhof Center 1142

Start Date

13-4-2011 3:30 PM

End Date

13-4-2011 4:00 PM

Keywords

Arts, Creativity/ Innovation, Culture

Abstract

Three of Grand Valley's art education majors who emphasize in ceramics planned and organized a collaborative ceramic mosaic project between the GVSU ceramics program and an after school multicultural art club at East Kentwood High School. The objective of this four month project was to highlight and celebrate the diversity of the East Kentwood student body, which consists of more than fifty nationalities. The three GVSU students also invited the art club to experience the campus of Grand Valley for a day and to directly observe raku firing, an alternative firing method, with the ceramics facilities. It was the eighth K-12 collaboration for the ceramics program. Since then, the project has extended to other art emphasis areas. This presentation will offer information about the planning and preparation involved to take on a project of this size, as well as the benefits of such an endeavor.

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Mosaic Collaboration Project Between Grand Valley Ceramics Program and East Kentwood High School

Kirkhof Center 1142

Three of Grand Valley's art education majors who emphasize in ceramics planned and organized a collaborative ceramic mosaic project between the GVSU ceramics program and an after school multicultural art club at East Kentwood High School. The objective of this four month project was to highlight and celebrate the diversity of the East Kentwood student body, which consists of more than fifty nationalities. The three GVSU students also invited the art club to experience the campus of Grand Valley for a day and to directly observe raku firing, an alternative firing method, with the ceramics facilities. It was the eighth K-12 collaboration for the ceramics program. Since then, the project has extended to other art emphasis areas. This presentation will offer information about the planning and preparation involved to take on a project of this size, as well as the benefits of such an endeavor.