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.
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.