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WASHers (Hannah, Ollie, Alexandra, Dante, [a little extra help from table 1, Wendy], Katie, and David) become human dots comps translating a really traditional foundations project in which they learn to use 2D space using Gestalt perception principles. For me...

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Streakers at WASH
Close your eyes

Table seven’s (Hannah, Ollie, Alexandra, Dante, [a little extra help from table 1, Wendy], Katie, and David) second try because the first try…well kind of duded. This is were seconds become firsts. Thanks for making this project easy to grade...

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Popsicle sticks play date in Paris!
True madness of a modular nature
Jada please, please bring me as chaperon

This is a serious sample of a blog process post! Go Jada! First a brief history about popsicle sticks. They were invented by an eleven year old named Frank Epperson in 1905. So they’re more than a hundred years old!...

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Making students go on a play date with their art materials

15 Feb 2011

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

So we do this modular madness project in which students choose 100 to 1000 cheap found objects to create a three dimensional work that responds to the formal and conceptual elements of the materials. Step one was to go home...

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“If we are to make living art–…

15 Feb 2011

kathy wash 2012

WASH 2011

“…and an art of living–we must be willing to stand knee-deep in the rapids of the human condition, accepting that life, by its nature, is turbulent, powerful, and mysterious.” Julia Cameron0