Last Saturday, for our third lesson of teaching, we made collage art using recyclable materials. The students cut up magazines, newspapers, and cardboard, and also used paint, oil pastels, markers, and colored pencils. We started the class with a discussion by looking at two different collages. We looked at Henri Matisse's, Tristel and Richard Hamilton work titled, "Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?" I created a large size poster listing the "elements of art" and had it displayed in the front of the room. We focused our discussion by looking at the two collages and picking out elements that both of the artists used in their work. Thankfully, for the kids being extra talkative that morning so we had a lot of participation and had no problem with getting them talking! The students did really well with pointing our different aspects of the collage. We then broke them off by partners and had them talk with one another to try and think of a theme to represent in their own collage. The students talked about their own interests, family traditions, sports teams, and many other topics. The students surprised me with their ideas, they were all so thoughtful. Giving that in the past two classes, we were struggling to get used to our time management, we kept the discussion short enough so that the students had plenty of time to work. We were a lot more successful this week, so I was excited to see our improvement. It gets exciting the more we get to know the students as well. It's really cool just getting to sit down with them and talk about their interests, whether or not it's even art related. The students in our class seem to be enjoying themselves in the class, and that's what I believe is one of the most important goals that I have as a teacher.
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