Final Projects

 

Each year, I allow my students free reign (almost) to learn what they want to learn. They can look back on a favorite medium and pushing it further or taking it a different directions. They can think about something that we didn't learn about and design a project for themselves to learn it. Whatever their idea is, they need to write a proposal detailing the scope of the project. This includes the number of pieces, the medium, the size, the subject matter, and it also gives an narative on why this idea is meaningful. Occasionally I have to tell students their proposal is too ambitious or not ambitious enough, but generally, they get accepted, and students are able to devote a week to their own project.

This year, I had students who wanted to learn how to make some origami animals, Another wanted to learn how to draw useing 2 point perspective. One student wanted to make a hand puppet and another wanted to do watercolors using primary colors and geometric shapes. I have to do one-on-one instruction for the few who are learning entirely new skills, but thankfully there are enough woring independently while stretching prior knowledge, that I can to focus on one student at a time.