Amy joins us in the studio

Amy Laugesen, joined us for three days in the studio.  The first day we worked with the younger primary students, exploring the properties of clay.  Some of the children continued the ongoing exploration of self that has permeated the studio these past several months, making faces and three-dimensional portraits.

While others gravitated to the visceral aspects of clay, pounding, rolling, pinching, coiling and building it into a variety of shapes, sculptures and creations.

The second day, we brought in the extended primary children to further explore self portraits and emotional awareness.

We began with detailed self portraits to communicate of creative visions to Amy and then we brought our drawn plans to the clay area where Amy demonstrated a variety of ways to adapt our two dimensional self portraits into clay.

 It was such a fun learning experience for all of us.

And the results are truly inspiring.

Day 3 Amy worked in the toddler classroom, exploring rolling, pushing, pinching, poking and manipulating clay in and by small hands.

Our community is so fortunate to work with Amy, she is a fabulous educator, artist and person. She continues to inspire and humble me with her graciousness and  even more importantly, the children love her AND clay.