Cornell Pieces Hail from Wichita!

This first teacher, from Wichita, KS, created an Asian inspired Cornell piece during the weekend of the class.  At home, she then came up with another interpretation to use as an example for her elementary students.  She believed that the process would go more quickly with her students if she started with a cigar box rather than having them cut out pages from books.


In the first piece, I like how she limited herself to images only, emphasizing the textural motifs within the found images.  In the second piece, the layering of collage, then drawn images, then 3D objects over top creates nice physical texture as well.  The shells and composition become complex little still-lifes of their own, just waiting to be drawn by the artist.  This is why I love mixed media work; it can easily move from 2D to 3D and back again, becoming a series of pieces.


The contrast of visual texture in one to actual texture in another could be a great assignment for students of other levels...