Monday, April 28, 2014

Ringgold Quilt Squares

Narrative Art

Fiber Arts Fusion…sounds like a good summer art camp theme…hmm. Anyway I love this project more and more each year. I’m starting to “get it”. So glad I’ve been teaching this awesome lesson all along!

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Day One:  Read and discuss “Tar Beach” by Faith Ringgold. If I could fly, I would fly______________.

To, over, across, under, inside, above…they loved brainstorming places.

 

We sketch out our full-body self-portrait and practice writing our sentence in our Idea Books. Then we draw a one-inch border on a 12”x12” square. They just used the width of the ruler sliding it from edge to edge…no fancy measuring involved.

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Next we illustrate our Quilt Square with pencil and trace with Sharpie.

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We color these with crayons and finally add one-inch squares of fabric around the border.

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I love how the story implied that once you fly over something, you own it forever. This artist really embraced that idea!

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“I have the hole circus now!”….

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