Info for Grant Writers - Twig Garden Structures for Schools etc.
Project Description
School-wide collaborative, community, art project, constructing a twig structure on school grounds with Maine artist, Susan Perrine.
Positive Impact of the Project
- Constructing a twig hut with every class and each child having the opportunity to work together with their own hands, makes it all inclusive and affords multiple opportunities for positive social growth.
- Children will feel the pride associated with creating an environment work of art.
- The structure will be strong and long lasting.
- The activity emphasizes and integrates social and emotional growth into the academic curriculum and offers cognitive growth through social interaction.
Innovation
Weaving with sapling and twigs, ubiquitous, harvested materials, encourages students to reconsider sources of their own art making supplies, especially if they have already experienced working with more traditional, purchased yarns.
Curriculum Enrichment
The project uses the ancient and traditional activity of weaving in an innovative way, creating community through the artistic process. How children learn is as important as what they learn and great cognitive growth occurs through social interactions. This school-wide project would offer a rich opportunity that fosters collaborative construction as well as basic engineering and results in a structure of natural beauty.
Integrate
Math - students will delineate circumference, measure and mark space
Science - students may observe tree growth rings, consider suppleness of various species and could try to identify trees by their leaf design
Improve or add value to the classroom
The structure created will build on the already inviting and engaging gardens. The structure will be a place of respite, and outdoor reading nook, a spot for imaginary play, a gathering place for outdoor classes, a canopy where students may grow vines and an inspiring visual structure. It will give all students a sense of ownership and pride in their school grounds.
Inspire and motivate students to learn
'Having worked with Susan Perrine at another school, I can say that the project is totally inspiring and self motivating: the resultant structure brings pride to all who participate. After one of her workshops, I saw children gathering their own willow branches and weaving mini-structures." Chake Higgison, Yarmouth Elementary School.
Reference contemporary, ethnic and historic creators
Andy Goldsworthy, Patrick Dougherty or Agnes Denes, environmental artists
Long houses of Native American woodland dwellers
Wattle and daub homes of early European colonists
Thatched roofed huts found across the globe
Susan has created similar structures at
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
Children's Museum, Dover, NH
Viles Arboretum, Augusta, ME
Artpark, Lewiston, NY
Nantucket Island School of Design, Nantucket, MA
Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown, RI
Watson Farm, Jamestown, RI
Providence Waterfront Festival, Providence, RI
Yarmouth Elementary School, Yarmouth, ME
And received accolades
Editor's Choice Award, Yankee Magazine
Community Spirit Award, Main Street Bath
Editor's Choice Award, Down East Magazine
Bio
Susan has developed engaging events in experiential learning through hands on workshops since 1998. She developed and organized Banners Over Bath, a street wide, all inclusive art exhibit and organized Pecha Kucha in Brunswick, ME with Five Rivers Arts Alliance.
How many students/teachers does this impact?
Large groups may be engaged. At Yarmouth Elementary School, 247 students participated over a 4 day period, arriving during their weekly art classes. At Pownal School, 150 students participated in one school day. Throughout a weekend at Common Ground Courntry Fair, hundreds have and chance to get their hands on yarn and weave.
School-wide collaborative, community, art project, constructing a twig structure on school grounds with Maine artist, Susan Perrine.
Positive Impact of the Project
- Constructing a twig hut with every class and each child having the opportunity to work together with their own hands, makes it all inclusive and affords multiple opportunities for positive social growth.
- Children will feel the pride associated with creating an environment work of art.
- The structure will be strong and long lasting.
- The activity emphasizes and integrates social and emotional growth into the academic curriculum and offers cognitive growth through social interaction.
Innovation
Weaving with sapling and twigs, ubiquitous, harvested materials, encourages students to reconsider sources of their own art making supplies, especially if they have already experienced working with more traditional, purchased yarns.
Curriculum Enrichment
The project uses the ancient and traditional activity of weaving in an innovative way, creating community through the artistic process. How children learn is as important as what they learn and great cognitive growth occurs through social interactions. This school-wide project would offer a rich opportunity that fosters collaborative construction as well as basic engineering and results in a structure of natural beauty.
Integrate
Math - students will delineate circumference, measure and mark space
Science - students may observe tree growth rings, consider suppleness of various species and could try to identify trees by their leaf design
Improve or add value to the classroom
The structure created will build on the already inviting and engaging gardens. The structure will be a place of respite, and outdoor reading nook, a spot for imaginary play, a gathering place for outdoor classes, a canopy where students may grow vines and an inspiring visual structure. It will give all students a sense of ownership and pride in their school grounds.
Inspire and motivate students to learn
'Having worked with Susan Perrine at another school, I can say that the project is totally inspiring and self motivating: the resultant structure brings pride to all who participate. After one of her workshops, I saw children gathering their own willow branches and weaving mini-structures." Chake Higgison, Yarmouth Elementary School.
Reference contemporary, ethnic and historic creators
Andy Goldsworthy, Patrick Dougherty or Agnes Denes, environmental artists
Long houses of Native American woodland dwellers
Wattle and daub homes of early European colonists
Thatched roofed huts found across the globe
Susan has created similar structures at
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
Children's Museum, Dover, NH
Viles Arboretum, Augusta, ME
Artpark, Lewiston, NY
Nantucket Island School of Design, Nantucket, MA
Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown, RI
Watson Farm, Jamestown, RI
Providence Waterfront Festival, Providence, RI
Yarmouth Elementary School, Yarmouth, ME
And received accolades
Editor's Choice Award, Yankee Magazine
Community Spirit Award, Main Street Bath
Editor's Choice Award, Down East Magazine
Bio
Susan has developed engaging events in experiential learning through hands on workshops since 1998. She developed and organized Banners Over Bath, a street wide, all inclusive art exhibit and organized Pecha Kucha in Brunswick, ME with Five Rivers Arts Alliance.
How many students/teachers does this impact?
Large groups may be engaged. At Yarmouth Elementary School, 247 students participated over a 4 day period, arriving during their weekly art classes. At Pownal School, 150 students participated in one school day. Throughout a weekend at Common Ground Courntry Fair, hundreds have and chance to get their hands on yarn and weave.
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