{"id":3743,"date":"2010-05-04T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2011-05-26T01:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T01:46:59","slug":"year-67s-assemblage-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-6\/year-67s-assemblage-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 6\/7s Assemblage Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/6-7-art-3-04-10c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3744\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"6-7-art-3-04-10c\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/6-7-art-3-04-10c.jpg?resize=150%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Accompanying David, the steel pan tuner, was his wife Sonia, who is an accomplished  artist in her own right. She specializes in an art form known as <strong>\u2018assemblage\u2019<\/strong>, which involves searching for and gathering  discarded natural and man-made objects, then assembling them as a 3D  \u2018collage\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As Year 6\/7 will be working on an Art Unit involving working with  the environment as stimuli, Sonia was particularly interested to work with those students.  She shared her <a title=\"Sonia's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tddesigns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>, showing them her work and explaining how she  created each piece. She then encouraged them to \u2018have a go\u2019 using  materials she had gathered from beaches in North and Middle Caicos.\u00a0 They  had everything from discarded shoes to sand dollars; from rusty nails  to pieces of broken plastic; from coral to shells.\u00a0 See some more <a title=\"Year 6\/7 Art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/slideshows\/G6\/yr6-7-assemblage-art-03-05-10\" target=\"_blank\">photos<\/a> of their artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The students thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to work  with a visiting artist and enjoyed listening to Sonia&#8217;s comments and suggestions  about their pieces.\u00a0 We all spent a relaxing, fun and stimulating couple  of hours with a lovely lady.\u00a0 Thank you, Sonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accompanying David, the steel pan tuner, was his wife Sonia, who is an accomplished artist in her own right. She specializes in an art form known as \u2018assemblage\u2019, which involves searching for and gathering discarded natural and man-made objects, then assembling them as a 3D \u2018collage\u2019. As Year 6\/7 will be working on an Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}