YACS second graders are collaborating with architect Elizabeth Chen to make an artistic impact oceans away from home.
Elizabeth is designing a water filtration system in Bunaken, Indonesia. The structure will filter rainwater into clean drinking water for hundreds of high school students and villagers. Adorning the facility will be students’ monochromatic abstractions of the water cycle.
The art making process began with students engaging in a reflective discussion on how water is a vital source of life for all living things. Then students read an informational text about the water cycle and studied the diagrams in order to visually understand the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5- Explain how images and diagrams contribute to clarify a text). Next, each student drafted a water cycle illustration and then deconstructed the imagery into patterns and shapes inspired by the work of artist Oscar Oiwa. Students combined the abstracted water cycles with drawings of plants and animals to symbolize the importance of water for all living things. The final works of art were created using sharpies in the style of Oscar Oiwa and then finished with a grey ink wash.
In June of 2015, Elizabeth Chen will join the Learn To Live team to construct her design in Indonesia. Students' artwork will be printed on the metal siding of the structure and will serve as an eye catching visual element highlighting the filtration system.
Learn To Live aims to provide clean drinking water for several hundred students and villagers in Bunaken; increasing basic sanitation, reducing plastic waste and saving countless dollars on importing drinking water from the mainland.
To learn more visit- http://learntoliveglobal.org/water-projects/bunaken/
The art making process began with students engaging in a reflective discussion on how water is a vital source of life for all living things. Then students read an informational text about the water cycle and studied the diagrams in order to visually understand the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5- Explain how images and diagrams contribute to clarify a text). Next, each student drafted a water cycle illustration and then deconstructed the imagery into patterns and shapes inspired by the work of artist Oscar Oiwa. Students combined the abstracted water cycles with drawings of plants and animals to symbolize the importance of water for all living things. The final works of art were created using sharpies in the style of Oscar Oiwa and then finished with a grey ink wash.
In June of 2015, Elizabeth Chen will join the Learn To Live team to construct her design in Indonesia. Students' artwork will be printed on the metal siding of the structure and will serve as an eye catching visual element highlighting the filtration system.
Learn To Live aims to provide clean drinking water for several hundred students and villagers in Bunaken; increasing basic sanitation, reducing plastic waste and saving countless dollars on importing drinking water from the mainland.
To learn more visit- http://learntoliveglobal.org/water-projects/bunaken/
The finished works were created with sharpie and paint wash on 18 x 24 water color paper.
The slide show below shows the artists in action throughout the art making process.
Check out artist Oscar Oiwa's amazing sharpie art installation!