Throughout this project, students have overcome so many hardships - I am so proud of their hard work! These forty students have shown the most patience, diligence, and constancy in the last couple of weeks! I have heard feedback from students and have thought of new ideas that would have made this project even more successful. One student suggested that this solely be a wire sculpture project. I'm not opposed to that; the wire sculptures looked awesome and most of them stood up well. I know for next time that I need to purchase thinner wire so that it is easier to bend, or supply more tools to manipulate the wire with. We use air-dry clay at FCCS because we do not have a kiln in our building, but maybe next year I could talk with my art teacher colleagues and see if we could use a kiln in their school! I would need to buy proper clay and cut out the step of building the wire armature (since it would melt and explode), but the final sculptures would be sturdier this way. I also think that by dividing the clay into bags for each student ahead of time made the clay dry out quicker, resulting in all the cracks in the solid statues. I have thankfully not had any casualties yet, but as precaution, I'm going to apply a layer of mod podge over the sculptures to prevent any limbs from breaking off before students paint this week.
Stay tuned for the final product in the next couple of weeks!
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