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ART DAYS @ BASALT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Typography, Printmaking and Bookmaking.
This program brings local organizations into the school for hands-on, creative experiences that inspire K-4 students while giving teachers valuable planning time. Held on early-release Wednesdays in March and April, it fosters artistic exploration, cultural enrichment, and hands-on learning.
The Project Shop provided an invovative offering combining examination of typography, printmaking and bookmaking. The young students did an incredible job engaging with material and accomplishing a ton of work in each of our 1 hour long sessions.
We started each gathering with a conversation about the book “The Wild Robot” that all of the students had read sparking a dialog about connection and communication. We talked about the different ways to communicate, leading to writing and typography and printmaking as a powerful way to share stories with many people. They practiced an alphabet designed by Bauhaus designer Joseph Albers from 1926 that uses only very simple shapes. Each student created a book for their own stories, successfully hand binding with a complicated 3 hole pamphlet stitch. Using our vintage ‘lil bob’ printing press each student letterpressed the line “FLY LIKE YOU NOT LIKE THEM” from the Wild Robot story on to their covers.
The Project Shop provided an invovative offering combining examination of typography, printmaking and bookmaking. The young students did an incredible job engaging with material and accomplishing a ton of work in each of our 1 hour long sessions.
We started each gathering with a conversation about the book “The Wild Robot” that all of the students had read sparking a dialog about connection and communication. We talked about the different ways to communicate, leading to writing and typography and printmaking as a powerful way to share stories with many people. They practiced an alphabet designed by Bauhaus designer Joseph Albers from 1926 that uses only very simple shapes. Each student created a book for their own stories, successfully hand binding with a complicated 3 hole pamphlet stitch. Using our vintage ‘lil bob’ printing press each student letterpressed the line “FLY LIKE YOU NOT LIKE THEM” from the Wild Robot story on to their covers.
Thank you Andrew Travers at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies for the invitation to participate in this outstanding program and to all of the volunteers (especially Jennifer Roberts) and organizers that made these days possible.
https://www.basaltedu.org/art-days
This event was made possible with the help of the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies and Basalt Education Foundation’s O/Ex Ed (Outdoor/Experiential Education) programming.
This event was made possible with the help of the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies and Basalt Education Foundation’s O/Ex Ed (Outdoor/Experiential Education) programming.