…and looking forward to Saturday.

“Born in Paris, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange studied drawing and painting at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1945 to 1949. On December 21, 1952, she married the poet Paul Celan, whom she had met in November 1951. She then studied etching at the Atelier Friedlaender, in Paris, from 1954 to 1957. Many of her works are linked to the poems of Paul Celan.”

via butdoesitfloat, a site that continuously inspires me

If I was going to preschool tomorrow, I would share this video with the children and ask them what materials we could use to design our very own city of lights, the way it would look from space – then get right to it.

I think my college students would be into it…if they didn’t have so many assignments to finish.

“You should know this new type of flower pot HONBACHI released by a design company Tokyo Pistol. HONBACHI means “book pot”, and as its name suggests, HONBACHI is reproduced books as flower pots, reusing old to-be-trushed books, that are deteriorated after years. We introduce here HONBACHI and how one of the major paper material, books, are recycled and reproduced as new products that will add spice to your life.”

via SHIFT

A Google search for ‘children + self-portraits’ lead me to this VIDEO presented by deputy headteacher and art co-ordinator Peter Sanders. This “programme shows how portraiture is extended and developed by all the year groups at Lauriston School in Hackney, east London.

Portraiture is taken beyond the boundaries of drawing and painting by using methods such as face painting in the nursery and large-scale three-dimensional modelling for the older pupils. The programme explores how introducing new skills and working with a wide range of materials can produce diverse results.

One of the many benefits of doing a whole-school art project is that it gives pupils and teachers a chance to see the variety of approaches and outcomes that can spring from a common starting point. It shows different ways of working which can be easily applied to other projects.”

Teachers TV: Share clever ways to begin the educational journey, ideas to aid literacy and communication, and help pupils understand and relate to communities.”