Thursday, April 25, 2013

Kaleidoscope Designs with Ms. Raia

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director/Educator

Artist and educator Jenny Raia visited Beye Discovery to teach us about radial symmetry. Ms. Raia shared segments from a video by Charles and Ray Eames as an introduction to this topic. She also read a beautiful children's book by Salina Yoon, titled "Kaleidoscope", to show that kaleidoscope designs are radial. The children especially enjoyed looking through the kaleidoscopes that Ms. Raia brought : )

For the project, Ms. Raia demonstrated how to create a radial design, that has a kaleidoscope effect. After folding the paper and drawing lines to delineated the folded areas, students used a variety of shiny re-purposed packaging materials to create a collaged radial design. The finished work is really dazzling ~ do have a look below!

Ms. Raia sharing the Charles and Ray Eames video, with radial designs

"Kaleidoscope" by Salina Yoon

Ms. Raia's radial design

drawing radiating lines within the pre-folded areas

adding collaged shapes to create the design

students begin their radial designs

Norah

Ben

Emory

Ben
 
Mikel

Dexter

Norah

Laila

Xantal

Cassie

Mikel

Emily

Andrew

Jalen

Leila

Well done students and a big thank you to Mr. Raia!!!

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