Week 4 Class 7- Architecture Parlantes, Part 2

Today we finished up our Architecture Parlantes, adding color and short descriptions of the location and purpose of the buildings. In the end we had a great variety of buildings, including a Phoenix Baseball Museum (complete with bating cages!), a music-themed hotel in Paris, a couple recording studios, and a mixed-use flowershop/observation deck (if you're willing to climb up the spiral staircase!), among others. Students had great ideas on how to make even the most commonplace buildings, such as banks and factories, creative and exciting.

Week 3 Class 6 - Architecture Parlante

Architecture Parlante or speaking architecture was the focus of today's class. Since the students had a chance to learn about ethnomusicology, Mr. Ben's area of focus in school on Tuesday, we took today to learn about Mr. Adam's area of study, architecture. After a brief presentation introducing the students to different types of architecture, the students worked on creating their own architecture parlantes, which are buildings that resemble what they are used for. Some examples include:

Check back next week for the student's Architecture Parlantes.

Week 3 Class 5 - Ethnomusicology

The focus of this week is to learn a little more about the instructors for Academy of Excellence. In today's class Mr. Ben spoke about Ethnomusicology, the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts. Students listened to music native of South America. They were then given instruments and learned various rhythms. We then practiced and performed various rhythms.

Week 2 Class 4 - Self Expression

On Thursday we had students express themselves on a small canvas overlaid by a transparent portrait. The final results were fantastic, and will be displayed at the "Formed of Matters" exhibition that will be held at the Step Gallery at ASU in February.

Week 2 Class 3- Making a Creative Atmosphere

What a busy week!

On Tuesday, we decided to decorate our class with some "buzzwords" that would inspire creativity throughout the semester. With big sheets of butcher paper, each student wrote and decorated words and phrases they associated with art and creativity. This was the first time Adam and I got to see the artistic skill of the students, and we are quite impressed!

On Thursday we had students express themselves on a small canvas overlaid by a transparent portrait. The final results were fantastic, and will be displayed at the "Formed of Matters" exhibition that will be held at the Step Gallery at ASU in February.

Week 1 Class 1/2 - Academy of Excellence Artspace

The next chapter in Artspace at Academy of Excellence is underway! Adam Davie and Ben Dumbauld are the newest instructors for the program with the theme for this year being TIME. There are some excellent projects on the horizon and we look forward to a great half of the year.

WEEK 1

After meeting the instructors and getting to know each other, the students took time to make their Artspace Name Tags...

The Next Chapter of Artspace at Academy of Excellence

Academy of Excellence will be beginning its third session of Artspace this spring. New instructors, new themes, new activities, and new experiences. Please keep up to date with all of the Artspace events at Academy of Excellence by checking this blog regularly.