A Little Art Horse History

Getting ready for back to school after a relaxing spring vacation. We will learn a little bit about Deborah Butterfield's horses and horses in art history in the video below. Then, we'll read about Butterfield and compare her work with Giacometti in preparation for creating animal sculptures. We've used wire to create sculptures as well as sticks this year, now I'm running low on materials. Sticks are free for the gathering, but the hot glue is pricey. Not sure what we'll use to build our animals this final term. Check back in a few weeks to see what we come up with!

This project was so fun! Here are a couple examples of the student art work:

"The Fox" sticks, bark, pine needles, hot glue

"Porcupine" sticks, twine, pine needles, hot glue