Wall Sculptures with Visiting Artist Sophia Lyman

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director

Our theme for the last week of February was "Influential Artists of the 20th Century". On Monday, Beye Discovery welcomed Visiting Artist & Educator Sophia Lyman, who introduced us to a number of colorful and patterned dimensional wall constructions created by the artist Frank Stella, during the later part of the 20th century. Click on the link below to see one of the exemplars that Sophia shared with us, an energy-filled wall construction titled "Jarama II".

http://www.nga.gov/kids/stella/jaramaII-zoom.htm 

  

For our wall construction project, Sophia provided light-weight chipboard packaging inserts. The inserts could be expanded into a flexible grid or reconfigured into limitless shapes and forms by joining several or more of the individual chipboard slats, using any of the pre-cut slots in the chipboard. 

Sophia, demonstrating how to blend colors

Sophia, demonstrating pattern

The students enjoyed working with bold color, shape, geometry and pattern as they designed and manipulated their constructions. It was inspiring to see the evolution of the re-purposed chipboard packaging into such beautiful, sculptural art forms! A big thank you to Sophia for such a terrific project and display: please stop by the 2nd floor landing above the auditorium to see this wonderful installation of student work, on exhibit until April. For more information about Sophia, please scroll to end of the photos!

Ben

Emory

Laila

Maurice

Xavier

Jalen

Isaac

Sophia with Ben, Heidi, Isaac. and Caleb

Andrew

Adding glitter: the final touch!

Leila

Andrew

Caleb

Heidi

Jalen

 Ben and Isaac

Maurice

Emory

Emory, detail

Jackson

Xavier

About our Visiting Artist: Sophia Lyman is a mixed media artist and educator. For the past 15 years she has worked as an art teacher, a manager of art and education programs, and a coordinator of public art. Sophia received a Master of Arts in Teaching at Columbia College Chicago and did her undergraduate work at Emory University in Atlanta. Currently, she is the art teacher at Alcuin Montessori School and lives with her husband and three children in Oak Park.