Students and staff from Edward Smith K-8 School in Syracuse recently collaborated with a local artist to create a large-scale ceramic mural titled “Peace by Piece.”
After a year of work, the mural — which shows white doves in flight over an abstract background dominated by blue and green — has been installed on the wall of the Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Place, the neighborhood’s main public library. About 175 children in Edward Smith’s third, fourth, sixth and eighth grades worked on the tile pieces during the 2010-11 school year.
The students were led by Syracuse University instructor Anne Cofer and their art teacher, Mary Lynn Mahan.
“The kids got a sense that they were working on something that was unique,” Cofer said. “They get to see the results of their work forever.ceramic magic cube for the medical, Kids will walk past the library when they become grown-ups and will go ‘Oh yeah, I did that.’”
The new tilescreated by the children were used with leftover tiles made by community members during the 1998 Westcott Street Cultural Fair. The tiles were leftover from a mural on Harvard Place called “Heart of the Neighborhood”.
Using tiles from 1998 with new tiles made by the pupils helped “make it something that would be a true community collaboration,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account ,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet, said Marilyn Smith, branch manager of the Petit Branch Library.
A committee of community members met in the summer of 2010 and began to generate ideas for the project. The committee brought in Cofer to work with Mahan.
“We brought Anne on board, too, because we thought that she would be the perfect person to be a teaching artist to work with the students at Ed Smith School,” Smith said.
This committee was composed of Smith, Cofer and Mahan along with Kate Auwaerter, Syracuse’s public art coordinator; Deborah Thorna, a Petit Branch Library clerk; and Barbara Humphrey and Starke Donnelly, both from the Westcott East Neighborhood Association.
The committeeapplied for an art$TART Grant provided by the Cultural Resources Council in November 2010. These grants are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts to promote creative partnerships between students and artists/art organizations.
“Peace by Piece” was inspired by similar murals created around the country. The students will make a smaller one for the Ed Smith school.
“I think everybody liked the idea of it representing peace in some way,” Cofer said. “We felt that we threw together some of the ideas that seemed important to members of this community, but also we were very keen on it being a collaborative community project so it drew from different areas of this community.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,”
A paper cutout by Matisse called “Polynesia, the Sky” was used as the basis of the mural’s design. The image was translated by Cofer and Mahan into shapes the kids could work with.
“I was on the computer and I suddenly thought, ‘Wow, Matisse did all those very bold paper cut images’,” Cofer said. “I felt that because of all the busyness of the tiles we were working with, I thought you needed something very bold against that to tie it all together. It made sense as a complete image.”
Cofer madetemplates for the children to make the shapes for the mural.
The third-graders focused on glazing some of the white leftover pieces to make them blue and green. The eighth-graders made the doves while the fourth- and sixth-graders made the stars and white pieces of foliage that surround the mural throughout the background.
“I think the kids really enjoyed it,” Mahan said. “I liked the idea that they weren’t working to bring something home for their parents. I liked that they were doing it for the community.”
The kilnin Ed Smith School could not fire the tiles since it was not hot enough. The pieces were fired in a Syracuse University kiln.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems,
Mahan and Cofer spent this summer gluing the tiles to six pieces of cement board.
“We had only seen it when it was flat on a table before it was lifted up,” Cofer said. “It was kind of ‘fingers crossed’ and hope that it kind of works as a single piece and it really does.”
Syracuse city employees installed the mural on the wall.
Cofer and Mahan spent hours grouting the tiles in August and early September. A formal unveiling of the mural took place on Sept. 24.
Opinions of “Peace by Piece” have been overwhelmingly positive.
“People just love it,” Smith said. “It really looks like it belongs there.”
Mahan said the pupils were ecstatic to see the finished product .
“They were just shocked at how beautiful it was,” she said.
For Coferand the children, the mural gave them an opportunity to make something for their community.
“It’s the first sort of public permanent project I’ve done in the community,” she said. “It’s a good way of making art accessible to a population of people.”
Smith and Mahan both hope that the students will look back on the mural with pride.
“I hope it’ll be there when those kids grow up,” Smith said. “They’ll be able to bring their children and say ‘Look at what we did when I was your age.’”
After a year of work, the mural — which shows white doves in flight over an abstract background dominated by blue and green — has been installed on the wall of the Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Place, the neighborhood’s main public library. About 175 children in Edward Smith’s third, fourth, sixth and eighth grades worked on the tile pieces during the 2010-11 school year.
The students were led by Syracuse University instructor Anne Cofer and their art teacher, Mary Lynn Mahan.
“The kids got a sense that they were working on something that was unique,” Cofer said. “They get to see the results of their work forever.ceramic magic cube for the medical, Kids will walk past the library when they become grown-ups and will go ‘Oh yeah, I did that.’”
The new tilescreated by the children were used with leftover tiles made by community members during the 1998 Westcott Street Cultural Fair. The tiles were leftover from a mural on Harvard Place called “Heart of the Neighborhood”.
Using tiles from 1998 with new tiles made by the pupils helped “make it something that would be a true community collaboration,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account ,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet, said Marilyn Smith, branch manager of the Petit Branch Library.
A committee of community members met in the summer of 2010 and began to generate ideas for the project. The committee brought in Cofer to work with Mahan.
“We brought Anne on board, too, because we thought that she would be the perfect person to be a teaching artist to work with the students at Ed Smith School,” Smith said.
This committee was composed of Smith, Cofer and Mahan along with Kate Auwaerter, Syracuse’s public art coordinator; Deborah Thorna, a Petit Branch Library clerk; and Barbara Humphrey and Starke Donnelly, both from the Westcott East Neighborhood Association.
The committeeapplied for an art$TART Grant provided by the Cultural Resources Council in November 2010. These grants are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts to promote creative partnerships between students and artists/art organizations.
“Peace by Piece” was inspired by similar murals created around the country. The students will make a smaller one for the Ed Smith school.
“I think everybody liked the idea of it representing peace in some way,” Cofer said. “We felt that we threw together some of the ideas that seemed important to members of this community, but also we were very keen on it being a collaborative community project so it drew from different areas of this community.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,”
A paper cutout by Matisse called “Polynesia, the Sky” was used as the basis of the mural’s design. The image was translated by Cofer and Mahan into shapes the kids could work with.
“I was on the computer and I suddenly thought, ‘Wow, Matisse did all those very bold paper cut images’,” Cofer said. “I felt that because of all the busyness of the tiles we were working with, I thought you needed something very bold against that to tie it all together. It made sense as a complete image.”
Cofer madetemplates for the children to make the shapes for the mural.
The third-graders focused on glazing some of the white leftover pieces to make them blue and green. The eighth-graders made the doves while the fourth- and sixth-graders made the stars and white pieces of foliage that surround the mural throughout the background.
“I think the kids really enjoyed it,” Mahan said. “I liked the idea that they weren’t working to bring something home for their parents. I liked that they were doing it for the community.”
The kilnin Ed Smith School could not fire the tiles since it was not hot enough. The pieces were fired in a Syracuse University kiln.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems,
Mahan and Cofer spent this summer gluing the tiles to six pieces of cement board.
“We had only seen it when it was flat on a table before it was lifted up,” Cofer said. “It was kind of ‘fingers crossed’ and hope that it kind of works as a single piece and it really does.”
Syracuse city employees installed the mural on the wall.
Cofer and Mahan spent hours grouting the tiles in August and early September. A formal unveiling of the mural took place on Sept. 24.
Opinions of “Peace by Piece” have been overwhelmingly positive.
“People just love it,” Smith said. “It really looks like it belongs there.”
Mahan said the pupils were ecstatic to see the finished product .
“They were just shocked at how beautiful it was,” she said.
For Coferand the children, the mural gave them an opportunity to make something for their community.
“It’s the first sort of public permanent project I’ve done in the community,” she said. “It’s a good way of making art accessible to a population of people.”
Smith and Mahan both hope that the students will look back on the mural with pride.
“I hope it’ll be there when those kids grow up,” Smith said. “They’ll be able to bring their children and say ‘Look at what we did when I was your age.’”
没有评论:
发表评论