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Original idea for an intergenerational sculpture is NOT panning out here. I’ve requested materials, interest, interaction via letters home, newsletter articles, Senior Center pleas, even local TV, and have had NO response. This is very frustrating; I cannot do it alone. . .I know I’ll be heading my own direction on a smaller scale with this because of all of our school’s limitations (poor technology, no money for materials, lack of support, difficulties with schedules, etc.) I really could have benefited from another group meeting; I feel like I am missing something. Different participants in this project seem to have more information/insight . . .
Plan B is for students to create individual or small-group sculptures. Ideas have been generated via the “contrived” junk drawers and an exercise in which I asked students to write about a dream/daydream and imaginatively embellish it as they went. These will work, I think.
I have completed a prototype sculpture of my own so that I know what to tell the students what to expect; they are enthralled with the idea. . . |